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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91481	David restored. Or An antidote against the prosperity of the vvicked and the afflictions of the iust, shewing the different ends of both. In a most seasonable discourse upon the seventy third Psalme, / by the right Reverend father in God Edward Parry late L. Bishop of Killaloe. Opus posthumum.	Parry, Edward, d. 1650.	1660 (1660)	Wing P556; Thomason E1812_1; Thomason E1812_2; ESTC R209776	187,261	357

David Restored OR An ANTIDOTE against the Prosperity of the Wicked AND The Afflictions of the Iust SHEWING THE Different Ends of Both. In a most Seasonable discourse upon the Seventy third Psalme BY THE Right Reverend Father in God EDWARD PARRY Late L. BISHOP of KILLALOE Opus Posthumum Let not my afflictions be esteemed as with wise and Godly men they cannot be an argument of my sinne more then their Impunity amongst good men is any sure token of their Innocency 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Printed for JOSEPH GODWIN Bookseller in OXFORD Anno Recreationis M.DC.LX To the Right Honourable JAMES Marquesse of Ormond Earle of Ormond and Ossory Vicount Thurles Lord Baron of Arcloe Lord of the Regalities and Liberties of the County of Tiperary Chancellour of theVniversity of Dublin Lord Lievtenant Generall and Generall Governour of the Kingdome of Ireland one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Councell in England and Ireland Lord Steward of his Majesties Household Gentleman of his Majesties Bed-chamber and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter BVt that I know Your Lord-ship's unparalel'd Goodnesse which can easily pardon the Crimes my ambition throws me on I should not have presumed after those many deserved Triumphs your Honour hath met abroad and those lowder acclamations that crown your return to disturbe your Lordship by so mean a present But the Author having had in his life time the honour of being well known and obliged to your Lordship for many very noble favours I could not without being injurious to the Dead whose Gratitude commands it and the Dignity of your own merit which ennobles any object it lights on have presented this Tribute to any other person then your Selfe And indeed my Lord besides the obligations of the Author this little Volume belongs to none more properly then Your Selfe who next his Majesty are one of the most illustrious Patterns of afflicted Vertue the world can boast of having tasted of all those unexpected changes Greatnesse is lyable to without any in your selfe no stormes being able to shipwrack your undaunted Loyalty shake that Heroick Constancy you are the happy Master of or eclipse the Piety of your soule So that after all those wonders you have seen abroad you are become a Greater one your Selfe having contracted all the rarities of other places into your selfe which proclaime you though a Subject greater then other Princes When I cast my eye on those Comforts which long bleeding Ireland did tast of under your Conduct how many Orphans teares have been dried up and widowes Groanes stopt by your bounty how with Moses you stood in the gap and opposed two high destructive factions how that afflicted Church owes that little life it as yet hath to your memory and which it struggles to preserve in hopes of your noble protection When I consider how many of the Reverend and pious Clergy of that nation stript of all by an enraged enemy had fainted to death unlesse held up by your Arme and their drooping spirits reviv'd by your Munificence and by the Pious and unparalelld Charity of your most honourable and most Incomparable Lady When I consider how nobly you ever owned both the Callings and Persons of the Ministers in their lowest Condition and undauntedly protected both against all Contempt When I reflect on those high Qualities which render you deserving the highest Favour and employment of your Prince when I cast my eye on these and those many more excellencies you triumph in I must justly proclaime that Church happie which shrouds its selfe under so noble a wing and that Kingdome to have out-done it selfe which produceth so Loyall a Subject To flatter Your Eminent Vertues my Lord were to wrong them and to think I intended to do so were to wrong me I shall not much studie for an Apology because the world will not only pardon but applaud this Choice nor can there be any better way of reviving the Acknowledgments of the Dead whose memory cannot have a Greater honour than your Lordship's owning of his labours nor my selfe a higher then of being my Father's successour in part of your Honour's esteeme and of being admitted into the number of Jesus Colledge OXON July 1660. Your Honour 's most humble and most devoted Servants IOH PARRY THE PREFACE To the READER THAT Religion is oft made a Covering for ill designes is no new peece of Policy but that sins of the blackest hue and Persons of notorious villanies should ride for many years in an uninterrupted triumph and at length dye quietly in their beds hath startled too many to somewhat more then wonder even to question a providence which may peculiarly interest it selfe in these unexpected revolutions For although the tendernesse of Gods mercies or the severity of his judgements are most conspicuous to an impartial unpassionate eye yet experience tells us that the causes of events are oft so occult and obscure beyond our reach as that our puzled thoughts are blindly led on too oft to substitute chance to be the cause of that which is unsearchably ruled by God or profanely to cast black obloquies if any thing happen contrary to our desires even upon God himself Whereas if but with patience and serenity men would expect the end they would quickly change their opinion and discerne Gods glory and his Churches good to break through those dismall appearances and that those disorders which carry a face of horror to us look with another kinde of aspect towards God Thus when the aire is covered with black tempestuous clouds our senses torne with thunder lightning all things may seem to be in an irreconcilable confusion below though the same calmenesse interruptedly sits in Heaven so whilst the World lies in a distemper and all things be together by the eares below on earth our judgment may be darkned and our passions be active yet that confusion can never continue so long or reach so high but God can turne these greatest disorders to a perfect harmony They that confine God to be onely a General beginning of a confus'd motion do strive to rob God of one of his most glorious attributes omnisciency as if once he should command a River to containe it self within its prescribed channel but yet not be conscious and intent upon every winding curle of its streame by which opinion as we strip God of his glory so we deprive our selves of very much comfort for if man were nakedly expos'd to the injuries of the creature freely acting according to the rule of nature without a more eminent hand to restreine their fury he would quickly finde a want of that helpe which he voluntarily do's abridge himself of And although man is alwaies too prone in his discontents to indulge his corruptions in a deniall of a peculiar providence yet he never more greedily runs into this peece of Atheisme Then upon the prosperity of the wicked and the afflictions of the just when he findes persecuted