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enemy_n	adversary_n	hand_n	lord_n	1,184	5	3.6502	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45691	Threni Hybernici: or, Ireland sympathising with England and Scotland, in a sad lamentation for the loss of their Josiah Represented in a sermon at Christ-Church in Dublin before His Excellency the Lord Deputy, with divers of the nobility, gentry, and commonality there assembled, to celebrate a funerall solemnity upon the death of the late Lord Protector. By Dr. Harrison, chief chaplain to his said Excellency.	Harrison, Thomas, 1619-1682.	1659 (1659)	Wing H916A; ESTC R221279	14,781	29

it for us then will he encrease us with men like a flock we shall then live and not die neither shall our men be few Fourthly When there 's a quiet resignation of our selves and our affairs to the Lord not limiting him but leaving him to his liberty to take away what Instruments he pleaseth and use what Instruments he pleaseth He will be Master over the Sons of men and when we are willing he should be so all things then shall work together for our good When we can choose God and let him choose all the rest David could not miscarry when his heart was once wrought over to this resignment 2 Sam. 15.25 26. Lastly When the Spirit of Faith is up in our hearts when through the discoveries of his Grace in Jesus Christ we are enabled still to trust in him hang on him expect good from him so that he cannot shake us off Generous Spirits scorn to fail those that depend on them poor sinfull Creatures have no other way to engage the great God to stand their Friend but by this dependance And saith the Prophet Isaiah Chap. 26.3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is staid on thee because he trusteth in thee When an Hawk pursued a Sparrow so close that it flew into Xenocrates his Bosome Non oportet supplicem prodere was his word and shall God give up his Turtle that flies into his Bosome pursued by Birds of Prey No he will never do it Psal 74.19 20. Now what hopes have yee Christians what expectations Can yee wait upon the Lord that hideth his Face from the house of Jacob can yee resolve to look for him Isa 8.17 Can yee believe for these poor Nations these wounded wofully wounded Nations to have slight thoughts of this Wound is the way never to be healed But what grounds of Faith or hope can you shew us to fix our feet upon at such a time as this Suppose I could shew yee none yet 't is a duty in the sincere people of God with their Father Abraham even against hope to believe in hope and to give Glory to God in believing Rom. 4.18.20 But yet God hath not left us without visible grounds to support our sinking expectations concerning these Nations For first our grand Enemies have had all the advantages against us they could wish for and yet have not prevailed all Campanella's projects have been accomplished Monarchy turned into a Free-state out of which they hoped to fish some notable Advantages The Dutch engaged in a War against the English to weaken both these States in their Shipping wherein they were most powerfull and formidable A Rebellion in Ireland an horrid one as that Popeling Polititian could have wished Philosophy mingled with our Divinity and what not and yet the Spaniards Universall Monarchy not effected Our English Roses not yet blasted not yet over-topped by the Lillies of France nor our British Crosses become Perches to the Austrian Eagles As if God had said from Heaven You shall have fair play all that yee can propound to your selves and yet come short of your Reckoning This speaks as if God had no mind to cast us away to abandon and give us up as a Prey to the Teeth of our Adversaries Let us bless the Lord for this and still believe on him Our Soul is escaped as a Bird out of the Snare of the Fowlers the Snare is broken and we are escaped Our help is in the Name of the Lord who made Heaven and Earth Psal 124.7 8. Surely when God thus encamps about his House 't is a signe that no Oppressour shall pass through them any more if they fall not off from Him Zech. 9.8 Secondly Are we not a People redeemed with so high an hand and such an out-stretched Arme as never People was since the dayes of Israel And hath the Lord been working so many Miracles of Mercy for so many yeares together and will he now undo us and all his own great Works together What will he do unto his great Name What will the Nations say It was not he it was a chance that hapned to them What will his and our Enemies say and do There is a stupendious expression in Deut. 32.26 27. I said that I would scatter them into Corners I would make the Remembrance of them to cease from among men I would pay them I would smock them they have deserved it at my hands were it not that I feared the wrath of the Enemy least their Adversaries should behave themselves strangly and least they should say Our hand is high the Lord hath not done all this Can the great God feare any thing Yes God himself tells us that he feares on the behalf of his poor People that desire to feare his Name and what need they to feare Enemies that have a God to feare for them Onely let us Sanctifie him in our hearts and let him be our feare and our dread and we need feare nothing else Thirdly What Spot of Earth to the praise of Free-grace be it spoken not to boast of our selves carnally What Spot of Ground in the World beares so many reall Saints upon it as our Island and some sprinklings here also that cry Day and Night unto him Souls sealed and marked in the Forehead not to be touched by the Destroyer Might Sodome have stood if there had been but ten righteous Persons there and shall not these Nations escape who have yet so many thousands to stand in the Gap Are not the holy Seed the Sap and Substance of our Robur Anglicanum our English Oke as an Oke whose Substance is in it when it casteth its Leaves The holy Seed shall be the Substance thereof Isa 6.13 Thus saith the Lord As the new Wine is found in the Cluster and one saith destroy it not for a Blessing is in it so will I do for my Servants sake that I may not destroy them all Isa 65.8 And surely we have Governours who say in their heart The Inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be our strength in the Lord of Hosts their God Zech. 12.5 Fourthly After all the Wind-falls in Gods Orchard so many top-heavy tall Okes and Cedars laid along those that are Trees of Righteousness indeed and kept their standing are more deeply rooted by all these shakings Professours were never so sober since the times of Persecution never so in love with old Truths they see plainly the pretended new light was an Ignis fatuus that misled poor benighted Souls yea many that erred come now to understanding and they that murmured are better instructed according to that sweet Promise Isa 29.24 We shall not therefore be ashamed of our hope neither shall our faces wax pale For as the prevailing of the Spirit of Error was the Herald of Misery so is the returning of a Spirit of Sobriety the welcome Harbinger of Mercy Fifthly So many hopefull young men coming on to the Ministry which is the Observation of our Brethren in England

in their Ordinations their Parts more raised their Lives more reformed the Councel of God more clearly revealed then formerly even this bespeaks a continuance of Mercy Surely the great Husbandman hath yet some Harvest to Inn seeing he makes such provision and preparation of Labourers Luke 10.1 2. After these things the Lord appointed other Seventy also and sent them two and two before his face into every City and place whither he himself would come Where Christ sends his Disciples before him he himself means to follow after the Treaty to Peace holds whilst his Leiger-Embassadours are not recalled Sixthly The generall sense of this heavy stroke is a good sign among us Indeed when the Righteous is taken away and no man layeth it to heart then there 's evil to come Isa 57.1 But I am perswaded no stroke these thousand years hath been more felt by the best people of these Nations the mourning is universall like that in Zech. 12.12 c. not only amongst the Rulers the Families of David and Nathan not only amongst the Ministers the Family of Levi but even the Family of Shimei who was of the house of Saul a Male-content a Reviler That comes along in the Train of the Mourners we read indeed of others of that Name who were of the house of Levi but that cannot be here meant because it was before mentioned by Name It s strange indeed to find the Family of Shimei mourning for the loss of the house of David yet the Lord can bring this to pass and hath done so at this time If I be rightly informed 't is sayd of Galba that he left but few willing to live under his Government but many mourning for his death How many do now confess they were unworthy of such a Ruler they knew not how to prise how to improve such a Mercy and when we cut out Fingers with Swords 't is time they should be layd up Seventhly That the great Plot of fiering London raising the Countries betraying the Ports and Garrisons was utterly broken before this Blow was given That this man of War should die himself in Peace contrary to the Prophesyings of many and leave us in peace This speaks much tenderness in our God towards us that such a storm should be blown over and a day of Thansgiving kept throughout the three Nations for it before this skilfull Pilot was called from the Helm Indeed when the Pilot is cast over board in a storm it fore-speaks a Shipwrack But now that the Lord hath thus in measure debated with us notwithstanding all our Luxuriancies and stayed the rough wind in the day of the blasting East-wind well may we hope that by This shall the Iniquity of Jacob be purged and that this shall be the Fruit to take away our sin Isa 27.8 9. that his designe is to purge and prune us not to root us up Eighthly That we should slide so quietly so naturally into a Settlement I think far beyond all our expectations this is a wonderfull Mercy Sol occubuts nox nulla secuta est Our Sun is set and yet no Night ensued Now for Light to rise when the Sun sets that at Evening time it should be light according to that promise in Zech. 14.7 this is not only a sign of mercy but a Miracle of mercy it self Ninethly That we now have Magistrates the Legallity of whose Call to their present Office and Station is beyond all dispute all settled by Authority of Parliament The Scepter put into his Highness's hand that now is according to the Sanction of Parliament The Sword put into his Excellencies hand hereafter his late Highness's establishment by Parliament Even this may give us a rationall ground of hope of quietness and submission even in the most unquiet Spirits at least they will have a less reason to pretend for their unquietness though unquiet persons never want pretenses Tenthly We enjoy Magistrates to whom the Interest of Religion is so endeared so incorporated by a Principle of Grace in themselves that they can no more forsake or abandon it then their own Souls and so intwisted by the hand of Providence with their own Interest that they cannot be safe if they quit it their Authority their Safety is Embarqued in the same Bottom with it they must swim or sink together Now God promis'd it of old as a Favour to his People that their Nobles should be of themselves and that their Governours should proceed out of the midst of them Let not us despise ours because they do so And I will cause him to draw neer and he shall approach unto me for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me saith the Lord Jer. 30.21 It is an admirable thing when Rulers and Governours engage their hearts to approach unto God God himself seems to be taken with it and to wonder at it Let us help them with our Prayers to engage more and more with and for God for this also speaks establishment ver 20. and prosperity ver 19. And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry and I will multiply them and they shall not be few I will also glorifie them and they shall not be small Their Children also shall be as afore-time and their Congregation shall be established before me and I will punish all that oppress them And their Nobles shall be of themselves and their Governour shall proceed from the midst of them and I will cause him to draw neer and he shall approach unto me c. Again The late Success of the Swede and our own Success in Flanders putting a Curb and a Bridle upon the Jaws of our ill Neighbours these look like the Pledges and Fore-runners of more mercy Lastly And especially some beginnings of reall Reformation and breathings after more in Persons Families Congregations Towns Cities Countries these where ever they are to be discerned look very smilingly and promisingly upon us Indeed if Reformation be neglected all our other grounds of hope will faile us and float away If the people turneth not to him that smiteth them neither do seek the Lord of Hosts then will he set up their Adversaries against them and joyn their Enemies together and they shall devour Israel with open Mouth Isa 9.11 12.13 And thou who ever thou art that hatest to be reformed mayst be one of the first that shall be so devoured But if Reformation be cordially endeavoured by us according to our places this will make us precious in the sight of the Lord and he will make us honourable Isa 43.4 if this be pursued I am not affraid to affirm it as sin hath pluckt the Crown from our head so Reformation will restore it and set it again upon the head of our State and Government yea the Lord will redeem our life from destruction and as David speaks Psal 103.4 Crown us with loving kindness and tender mercies Without Reformation we are a lost People but if the Lord make us a reforming People we shall certainly be a preserved People that will restore our Ornament our Glory to us Come therefore and let us return unto the Lord for he hath torn and he will heale us he hath smitten and he will bind us up FINIS