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A65552	Pastoral admonitions directed by the Bishop of Cork to all under his charge ; whereunto is added A sermon reflecting on the late sufferings and deliverance of the Protestants in the said county and city, preached at White-Hall on the fourth Sunday in Lent, March 22, 1690.	Church of Ireland. Diocese of Cork and Ross. Bishop (1679-1699 : Wettenhall); Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1691 (1691)	Wing W1508; ESTC R38579	20,756	56

hard to find where to begin or having begun where to end Instead of medling therefore with ages at a distance I will only crave leave to say that there was even amongst the people of these Nations a while a go some visible appearance of amendment for a time at least whether by the miseries we suffer'd or upon the fears of what we apprehended imminent I cannot speak There was really as far as man could see more preparation for Heaven more contempt of this world more open hearts and hands more strict walking and care of mens ways more retrenchment of vanity luxury than for some years had been before observable I wish I might not say than is at present in most persons visible The wrath of the common Enemy did amongst us then praise God But is that wrath at least the fears of it over at present Or are we by being longer under such apprehensions hardened and grown more insensible for I must beg pardon if I say plainly we are now again most of us as bad as ever we were I do not say all God be blessed we have some excellent examples of perseverance and the greatest where it ought and where it is most illustrious in the Greatest But as to the most of us who are fallen back give me leave to say if the wrath of our Enemies and I must insert also the Favours and Protection of our Deliverers do not praise God by amending us we must expect God will force praise to himself from the wrathful consticts on both sides we shall be dasht in pieces against and with those our adversaries whom we cannot judge more the Enemies of God than by our incorrigibleness we manifest our selves to be and have been we shall perish both like vessels of dishonour by mutual collisions But God avert it To return from whence I may seem to have digrest having first craved pardon which I humbly do for this short but necessary admonition by the way To return I say It is another particular of praise which by the wrath of men God reaps from the faithful when it quickens them to Faith study of perseverance patience magnanimity and even rejoycing in tribulation when though thrown and resting under the wrath of their own Enemies tho perhaps such who scarce seem to act like men they laud and magnify the name of their God who has thought them worthy to suffer for him they wait and hang upon him with unshaken dependance and patience praying indeed yet quietly expecting deliverance either in this world or to a better and submitting to his will which way of the two he pleases to dismiss them from the yoke Thus befell it in the case of St. Paul and Silas when by the command of the Philippian Magistrates thrust into the inner Prison with their feet made fast in the Stocks At midnight they prayed Acts XVI 25. and sang praises unto God An example drawn into practice no doubt in most ages by vastly greater numbers though unequal Saints Our adversaries somewhere of late have oftentimes in several places curst the damn'd Hereticks as they call'd them whom they had driven hungry and almost naked through thick and thin as sheep to the slaughter for that in their cold prisons they would not forbear their prayers and their Psalms They have threatned them with bolts and irons and the Gallows too except they would desist but tho for that time interrupted they have not been finally silent to their God These were Refugees to heaven and I crave it may not be offensive to say I hope not less loyal meerly because with their own little ease and less safety or advantage they kept possession of some part of the Earth for their Countreymen They yielded not a tittle of faith or right except to suffer for both be to yield But to shut up this point Thus the praise of God has many times been inhanced by the wrath of man while it has appeared to the regret of wicked men and their Chieftain the grand Abaddon and Apollyon which acts them that maugre the malice of men and Devils God could not be debarred at least deprived of the Praises and Hearts of his Faithful I will mention but one way more in which through Divine Direction of it the wrath of man praises God and that is upon his Enemies when what they designed proudly for their own advancement he turns together to Their Ruin and possibly also to his Pe●ples D●liverance Before we saw them God's Executioners on others now we shall see them such upon themselves This perhaps was never more illust●iously verified than in Haman He is consulted what shall be done unto the man whom the King Esth VI. 6. delighteth to honour Now Haman thought in his heart to whom should the King delight to do honour more than to my self By the bye I need not tell you what an implacable rage and malice Haman breathed against the Jews and particularly against Mordecai for the hanging of whom upon the Gallows that he had prepared he came then to speak to the King v. 4 Well Haman gives his advice and 't is like what was to be expected from such a touring empty head v. 8 9 Let the royal apparel be brought which the King uses to wear and the horse th●t the King rideth upon and crown royal which is s●t upon his head And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the King 's most noble Princ●s that they may array the man withal whom the King d●lighteth to honour and bring him on horseb●ck through the street of the City and proclaim before him Thus shall it be done to the man whom the King delighteth to honor Upon this the King gives his royal mandate to him v. 10. Mike hast and take the Apparel and the horse as thou hast said and do even so to Mordecai the J●w that sitteth at the King's gate let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken Which is executed in the following verse And now by Haman's own advice his hated Mordecai is become great at Court he soon hanged upon the Gallows he had prepared for Mordecai and though the Orders given out for the slaughter to be acted on the Jews being solemnly past under Seal could not by the law of the Medes and Persians be reverst yet an order is granted O! that the like had come to some men in good time that they should stand on their own defence and so the whole people of the Jews are delivered from the Massacre design'd on them Thus O Blessed Father may the wrath of man ever praise thee Great and marvellous are thy works O Lord God Almighty Just and true are thy ways O thou King of Saints Hitherto of the shall in this world By our discou●se whereon it appears that here the wrath of man only in s●me part or instances of it and at certain times praises God But at that great day when the vast

and Wisdom and Thanksgiving and Honour and Power and Might be unto our God and unto the Lamb for Ever Ever Amen Though it be best that in secret Prayer each use his own words yet for the help of those who are less Exercised Here are two short Prayers a small charge to memory A short Morning Prayer in secret O God my Health my Life my Happiness and Portion for ever I most humbly adore and worship thine unseen but all-seeing Majesty blessing thee that thy good hand has raised me this morning again to cast my self at thy footstool Thou O Lord art Gracious and Holy and Blessed but I am vile and abominable and deserve to be most miserable as being very corrupt by nature and having a heart further depraved by a multitude of sins most truly mine own more in number than I can rec●unt and of more grievous guilt than I am able to set forth yet what is my only support not exceeding thy mercy in Christ Jesus my Saviour In his name I come unto thee and forasmuch as I desire to turn from all my sins both at present and for the future and to go mourning all my days for what I cannot now recall I most earnestly beseech thy pardon through my Saviour's bloud and thy Spirit both to purge out of my heart all the old leaven of naughtiness and to replenish it with the Belief Love and Fear of thee my God Grant O Lord I may ever cleave unto thee and follow hard after thee and in the end obtain everlasting life with thee Keep me this day watchful against mine iniquities the sins which easily beset me Lead me in the way that is good Defend me from all Evil and supply all my wants as thou seest best for me Hear me also for thy Holy Church Universal for Ours in Particular for our Gracious King and Queen for all in Authority under them for all the Ministers of thy Church for the whole body of the People for my Friends and Benefactors for my Relations and Kindred * Here you mention a●y of your nearest relations or friends especially for c. for all who are distressed † Here any who have desired your Prayers O thou great All-sufficient God be thou a shield and succour to us all And in the Unity of thy Church guide me and all thine by thy Counsel until thou shalt bring us to thy Glory through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Our Father c. A Short Prayer for Evening in secret O Father of Lights with whom is no Darkness from whom nothing is hid and who never slumberest nor sleepest I frail creature to whose support thou hast made sleep necessary being now about to go to my rest humbly fall down before thee and with soul body worshipping thee desire to close this day with thee and in thy peace and fear Thy good hand has carried me through the business and Dangers of the day and blessed be thy Holy name thy Fatherly care and Loving kindness for it Thou O Lord art never wanting unto me but I am ever wanting to thy Grace and my self How many have been this Here you ought to make particular r●flexions and may mention any miscarriage day the errors of my ways ** How have I come short of my duty In ** yea done contrary to it I do O God from my soul bewail all Now look graciously I beseech thee upon me in thy Son Christ Jesus In him O Lord hear O Lord forgive and cause thy face to shine upon thy servant Lay me to rest sprinkled with the bloud of my Saviour in Holy peace and in the comfortable hopes of a Blessed Resurrection at the last day Make my sleep this night sweet and pure and when I awake let me be still with thee Ravish my soul with thy love and enlarge my heart in longing desires after thee and serious delight in the thoughts of thee and the blessed company of Heaven Prepare me for my long sleep and keep me ever watchful every fit and willing to leave this world and desirous to be with thee Gather together O Lord all thy Church and till the fulness thereof shall be come in Purge quiet and defend all parts of it Let thine Eyes be ever open for good on this part of it into which thou hast hast cast thy servant and especially on them who under thee are the Defenders of it our Gracious King and Queen Keep Guide and Govern them and all who in Church or State Govern under them Make all thy Ministers able faithful and succesful Bless and reward all my Friends Pardon and turn mine Enemies Help the Helpless Receive into thy Protection this night me and all my Relations c. * Preserve us all Good Lord to thy Heavenly Kingdom through Jesus Christ our Saviour Amen Our Father which c. A SERMON Preached at WHITE-HALL Before the QUEEN On The Fourth Sunday in Lent March 22. 1690. REFLECTING On the late Sufferings and Deliverance of the Protestants in the City and County of CORKE Published for the sake of those concerned in it who could not hear it yet may edify by it By EDWARD Lord Bishop of CORKE and ROSSE CORK Printed by John Brent for David Jones Bookseller and are to be sold at his Shop in Cork 1691. A SERMON c. The Text. Psalm Lxxvi 10. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain THE most both of ancient and modern Authorities date this Psalm in good Hezekiah's days at least on the occasion of that nights deliverance when the Angel of the Lord fell in upon the Assyrian Camp and slew of them one hundred and fourscore and five thousand When with such a mighty hand and out-stretched arm God rescued his people some from slavery some from death all from the power and dread of their enemies then was it eminently that in Judah was God known and his name was great in Israel Then did it appear more gloriously that in Salem was his tab●rnacle and his dwelling place in Sion For there brake he the arrows of the bow the shield and the sword and the battel v. 1 2 3. Then the stout-h●arted w●re spoy●●d they slept their sleep the sleep of nature and of death together and non●●f the men of might found their hands v 5 Then did God arise to judgment to save all the meek of the earth v. 9. Or rather as the original no less naturally bears to save all the poor of the land Which Salvation the sacred Author having thus loftily and sweetly sung adds for a close as in an Ecstatick Acclamation this Divine Aphorism verified not only by that single instance but by the experience of all ages Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain I know a certain Church allows not Hallelujahs in Lent but the redeemed of the Lord whom he hath delivered from the hand of the