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A65560 A sermon preached Octob. 23, 1692 before His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and the Lords spiritual and temporal, and divers of the commons, in Christ-Church, Dublin by Edward Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross. Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713. 1692 (1692) Wing W1518; ESTC R24614 17,334 26

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Thursday the 13th of October 1692. By the Lords Spiritual and Temporal In Parliament Assembled Ordered THat the Lord Bishop of Cork do Preach in Christ-Church on the Twenty Third Day of this Month of Octob. before the Lords of this House Gerard Bor Cler. Parl. Munday the 24th of Octob. 1692. By the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled Ordered THat the Thanks of this House be given to the Lord Bishop of Cork for his Sermon Preached yesterday in Christ-Church And that the Earl of Drogheda and the Lord Viscount Blessinton do accordingly give the Thanks of this House to the said Lord Bishop of Cork and desire him to cause his Sermon to be Printed Gerard Bor. Cler. Parl. A SERMON Preached Octob. 23. 1692. Before His EXCELLENCY the LORD LIEUTENANT AND THE LORDS SPIRITUAL and TEMPORAL And divers of the Commons In CHRIST-CHURCH DVBLIN By Edward Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross DUBLIN Printed by Joseph Ray on Colledg Green for William Norman Bookseller in Dames street 1692. ADVERTISEMENT THe Particular Service for the Day according to the Order of Church of Ireland being somewhat long the Preacher was forced to contract his Sermon by Omitting in several places some parts thereof But the Passages omitted in the Pulpit are inserted in the Print Yet so as that what was omitted is distinguished from what was delivered If of any length by being shut in thus ** ** If smaller only thus A SERMON Preached Octob. 23. 1692. 2 Cor. I. 9 10. We had the Sentence of Death in our selves that we should not trust in our selves but in God which raiseth the Dead Who hath Delivered us from so great a Death and doth Deliver in whom we trust that He will yet Deliver us OF my Choice of these Words on this Occasion I hope there needs no other Account than that it is more our Churches than mine The Time when our Apostle and his Brethren in Tribulation as well as Faith had this Sentence of Death in themselves was in the Trouble which came unto them in Asia vers 8. and the History whereto this is supposed to refer we have Acts xix The Honour of the great Goddess Diana whom all Asia and the World then worshipped and of the Image which fell down from Jupiter had now received a Deadly Wound Her Temple was likely to be despised and her Magnificence destroyed for that This Paul had perswaded and turn'd away the People saying That they are no Gods which are made with hands A Pestilent Doctrine indeed For it had this effect at Ephesus that Demetrius's Silver Shrines 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They were most probably pretty Medals with Diana's Image and her Temple's upon them much Finer and more Valuable than our Neighbour's Agnus Dei's and such like Trinkets would not go off as they had done The Craft by which the Silver-Smith and his Fellow Workmen got their Wealth was in danger to be set at nought and now 't was time for the Craftsmen to act at least the Zealots to cry out two hours together Great is Diana of the Ephesians to raise no small stir to put the City in Confusion and Country in an Uproar to lay hold on Pauls Comparions and him too if they could catch him and to rush with one accord into the Theater there to feed the Wild Beasts with the Bodies of Gods Saints and their own Eyes with the Spectacle of them torn in pieces and devour'd At this Juncture We had saith the Apostle the Sentence of Death in our selves The History indeed matches not the Bloodiness and Barbarity of this Day Greece was a Civiller Country though Bigotted enough by Prophets of their own Poets and ●●yars One Wandring Jew our Apostle and a Couple of poor Macedonian Travellers Gaius and Aristarchus his Companions would have satisfy'd the Fury of that Conflux of Idolaters from all the World then at Ephesus One thousand two hundred eighty three persons a day for an hundred and twenty days together or one with another that is * This is the Account in Sir John Temple's Book and as it was given in to the Parliament in England But if from Octob. 23. on which Morning the Rebellion broke out we reckon to March 1 which is somewhat more exact There were 9 days above the four Kallendar Months that is 129 Days And then there fell only one Day with another 1193 Persons a Day and 103 over in the whole An hundred fifty four thousand Souls Men Women and Children in four Months time as the Account was given in by the Actors themselves lest they should have been thought to have been more bloody than they were was a Sacrifice which none but Irish Priests and Popish Votaries could ever have thought of or attempted Nay Diana's Priests in the Acts were yet more reasonable than we think of For their People having got two Persons to make an Example of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vers 31. certain of the Asiatic Priests such in all likelihood they were stood so much Paul's Friends as to preserve even him though Principal from the Theatre and being there a real Tragedy Admit then the Irish Priests in a certain Sacrifice to be no Idolaters yet in Humane Sacrifices they have far exceeded all the Idolaters in the World But however the History will not in all Circumstances come up to our Case the Habit of Mind or Temper here avowed by the Apostle in himself and Brethren will be most seasonable and intimately becoming all whose Condition at any time may have answered theirs by having had a Sentence of Death in themselves We will therefore view First Their Outward Condition and Gods Design upon them thereby vers 9. Then the Faith our Apostle Avows vers 10. which are the main Considerables in these two Verses 1. We had a Sentence of Death in our selves That was their Condition That we should not trust in our selves but in God which raiseth the Dead That was Gods Design upon them and us God in his Providence many times sees fit to bring his faithfullest Servants into such Plunges of Misery and Difficulties whence none but an Almighty Unseen Power can Retrieve them And this to the end he may teach them and others by them dependance on himself alone They are so reduced as that they must trust to Invisible Omnipotence or Nothing As in the Text To God that raiseth the Dead For their Condition is in effect such as that of men in the Grave or under the Power of Death 2. He Avows God had Delivered and even still to the instant in which he spoke did Deliver and that they trusted he would yet Deliver them When in Deplorable or Desperate Circumstances by an Almighty Hand People have been delivered they ought into whatsoever Condition they shall thereafter be reduced for ever to trust to that Deliverer However low the Faith of any other persons at any time may run without sin the least Diffidence in those who have been thus Delivered
the Walls of DERRY of whom God alone knows how many perished And even those Brave People within DERRY and their Immortal Brethren of ENNIS-KILLIN cannot but be esteem'd with our Apostle to have been pressed out of measure above strength insomuch as oftentimes to have despaired of Life only resolving in those desperate Circumstances to fall into the Hands of God and not of Men not to sell Life with Dishonour or to be made the Scorn of Foreigners and Faithless Men. These things are so manifest that to use the words of our Town Clark in the Acts They cannot be spoken against It admits not Contradiction that we of late had a Sentence of Death in our selves Now as to the Point Questionable and to be Examin'd Has this Sentence of Death according to Gods Design thereby brought all of us either us of Fourty One or us of Eighty Eight off from our Carnal Refuges and Carnal Life or Sense of things Do we now not trust in our selves but in God which raiseth the Dead Are we all of us as Men ought to be who have had so long the Sentence of Death in themselves prepared for Death Have we in good earnest perswaded our selves that God will raise the Dead Ay and bring them to Judgment too Are we resolved to live as Men only Reprieved a while For our Condition is at best no better We are perhaps delivered from a violent Death but tomorrow or next day at least we know not how soon may we dye a Natural one Behold as Gen. xxvii 2. good old Isaac said I know not the Day of my Death Now are we ready Brethren Has this Sentence of Death mended us Can we each look up to Heaven and say I trust in God that raiseth the Dead If so such Mens Miseries have made them Happy But God knows if we may judge by what appears to Humane Eyes by the face of things by People's Manners Talk Habits Air and like Symptoms the generality of us are as lewd carnal worldly proud vain and santastick as ever Some I will hope remember the Vows of their Misery and will never forget them And to such mainly belongs The second part of my Application the Exhortation and Advice following God has deliver'd you from so great a Death He does Deliver Wherefore trust to Him that He will yet Deliver you 1. He has Delivered 'T was His Hand and His alone in the Irish Rebellion which that any Protestants did or do here survive is little less then a Miracle The Nation was Confederate and as one Man against us They had every where prepared the Instruments of Death of all sorts and they as barbarously divers Months employed them even till glutted with Blood if English Blood could have glutted them That they left us a Remnant was Gods over-ruling Act not at all their Intent or Will Their Design Attempt and diligent Endeavour was to have cut off Root and Branch the Mother with the Child And least our Ashes should have been a kind of a new Seedness of Protestants to the Land they had forbid us so much as Burial Again 'T was Gods Hand and His alone that in the Irish Tyranny deliver'd us the Posterity Brethren or Successors of those who fell in the Irish Rebellion Their Priests indeed are said this time not to have given such Bloody Instructions as in the former day Alas good Natur'd Men They onely at high Mass that is at their most sacred Office and in the highest pitch of their Charity bid all their People Arm at least with Rupperies and Bagonets pretty innocent Weapons and what other Arms they could get They only interdicted them under pain of Suspension from Mass to be seen again after such a short day unarm'd Their Orders for Action only were Plunder and Strip all Protestants Spoil and Burn what you cannot possess but spare Blood That is Kill not the Protestants but starve them with Cold and Hunger O Merciful Priests Quid refert ferro pereamne ruinâ But even this their Mercy lasted not long When many of our Brethren had saved themselves by timely retiring out of the Kingdom how frequent Consults were held to have put to Death us the poor Remainder And herein the Irish Papal Clergy were constant and importunate to this bloody purpose and their People no doubt too many of themselves as ready for acting it Now how a Clergy and a head strong blind abused Nation who denyed even to their own King as they call'd him his Power as often as he would use it in favour of Protestants how I say both these came to be restrain'd from executing their own Will we to this hour are at a loss It was not as some have thought a care of Preserving the English Roman Catholicks which swayed them for they had no regard to them And those of them whom they had in their Army or Councils they scorned hated and to their power turn'd out of Place little otherwise than they did English Protestants It was not fear of an After-Reckoning For by this means only they accounted they would have prevented all After-claps Sometimes I have thought it was our Paucity They scorned us and esteemed us too Few considering their own Numbers for them to sacrifice And really upon After-thoughts herein I believe those who left the Kingdom did a Publick Service For had the whole Body of the English stayed so that our Number had made us Formidable I question not but there had been a Second General Massacre Which what prevented as to us who were in their hands especially at that Critical Point of Time when our Blessed Deliverer and their Conquerour appeared cannot as far as I am able to see be assigned except we say It was Gods Almighty Hand He disheartened them and as in the case of those Cities through which Jacob and his Family journeyed Gen. xxxv 5. The Terrour of God was upon them He perfectly amused them so that their Men of Might found not their Hands nor their Wise Men their Counsels He then Delivered us from so great a Death And 2. He doth Deliver How we have subsisted even since the Reduction especially in the Countrey where for the most part both Towns and Fields were in a manner totally desolate and waste where Houses and Stock and in many places even Trees and Hedges were destroyed so that we might have rationally despaired of Food and Shelter is to me next door to a Miracle But when the Bush burns and burns and continues still burning yet consumes not 't is plain God is in it He doth Deliver us 3. Let us therefore trust in Him that He will yet Deliver us 'T is sure only the Power of our Enemies is abated not their Malice or bloody Minds I may add most justly not their Pride or Expectations Their very common People stick not to our face to tell us They will yet have a Day for it and they are as confident of an Army from