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A64348	A sermon preach'd to the Protestants of Ireland in the city of London at St. Helens, Octob. 23, 1690 being the day appointed by act of Parliament in Ireland for an anniversary thanksgiving for the deliverence of the Protestants of that kingdom from the bloody massacre begun by the Irish papists on the 23d of October, 1641 / by Richard, Lord Bishop of Killala.	Tenison, Richard, 1640?-1705.	1691 (1691)	Wing T684; ESTC R9854	19,055	32

c. Yet did he run into Rebellion again and committed great slaughters By which they in those days and their Posterity since have verified the Prophecy which Giral Cambr. mentions That after the first Invasion of the English they should spend many Ages in frequent Conflicts Battels and Murders and that almost all the English should be driven out of Ireland c. and transmitted to Rome which were confirmed by a Bull from Pope Adrian and by the delivery of a Ring in token of his Investiture to which both Clergy and Laity did consent and sware Homage and Fealty to him in a Publick Convention at * Mat. Paris Giral Cambr. Lismore where the Laws of England were also thankfully received and they all sworn to observe them and afterward he gave it to his Son John and the Pope confirmed it And in the Synod at Cashell they did unanimously before Christianus President thereof acknowledge the King's Ancient Right to Ireland and enjoyn'd all to be subject unto him And there and at another General Synod held at Armagh they order'd and decreed That the Church of Ireland should observe all Divine Offices that the Church of England did and there also was the King's lawful Right again confess'd and submitted unto and for Four hundred years after it was called the King's Land of Ireland and by many Acts of Parliament Collodion of Statutes declared to be appending and belonging and knit unto England So was it in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth when by the States of the Realm he was declared King thereof And 11 of Queen Eliz. her Title to that Kingdom is recogniz'd in Parliament and declar'd to be very Ancient and derived from Gurmund Son of Belin King of Brittain Lord of Bayon in Spain some of whose Subjects he permitted to live in that Island and sent Guides with them to settle them in it who with their Posterity ought therefore to be subject unto England as the Inhabitants of the English Plantations in America now are But though the Title of England to that Kingdom be so clear so very ancient and just yet they have openly rebell'd five times in less than fourscore years beginning in the Year 1567. Two other Rebellions were also contriv'd and resolved on within that space to which they had Promises of Foreign Aid but were by God's Providence discover'd and prevented beside that intended and begun by three of their Principal Cities in the beginning of King James's Reign So very prone and apt they have always been to Rebel upon the Accession of Princes to the Throne or when England was engag'd in Wars either Domestick or Forreign And the like opportunity they made use of in the late unhappy War violating all Laws of God Nature and Nations and throwing off their Allegiance to their undoubted Soveraign as soon as the Troubles began in this Kingdom To which Wickedness their Clergy of all sorts did then seduce them telling them That Faith was not to be kept with Hereticks That the Pope being God's Vicar Pro-Deus as Mart. Azpilcueta calls him had Power to depose Heretical Princes and that they would do God and the Church good Service in killing Hereticks Upon which they ran furiously to commit those horrid Acts which they thought meritorious And so cunningly did they draw Arguments from Religion Honour and Profit that they made the English Pale break out which neither the Pope's Bulls nor the Declarations of the Divines of Salamanca and Valedolid could instigate them unto in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth But now they had better digested the Romish Tenets and the Priests appear'd every where in the Head of their Troops and in sharp and bloody Oratory animated them to go on What the Jesuits had wrote was become Canonical and the Actions of others were now to be imitated Why should not they be as blindly Zealous as any of their Religion had been They knew the Merindolians and Calabrians were murder'd for their Aversion to the Romish Religion that Alphonsus Diazius came in great Zeal from Rome and kill'd his own Brother in Germany for being a Protestant They had heard how many had been martyr'd here in the Reign of Queen Mary and what numbers the Duke de Alva had executed in the Netherlands The Massacre of Paris was fresh in their memory where and in other parts of France the French King boasted in his Letters to the Pope that he had cut off 70000 Hereticks for which there were solemn Processions at Rome and a Jubilee granted to all Christendom by the Pope who by Cardinal Vrsinus gave thanks to the French King for that good Service and desir'd him to go on and extirpate Heresie out of his Kingdoms They knew the many Plots and Confederacies against Queen Elizabeth and King James and how some of those monstrous Parricides gloried in their Sin at their Execution And beside these bloody Examples they had the Authority of their Learned Writers for the lawfulness of such Actions De Reg. l. 6. c. 6. Mariana had told them That if the Prince wont be advis'd they may take up Arms against him and if nothing else will do they may kill him And Emanuel Sa had said When once he is Excommunicated the People who have sworn Allegiance to him may depose him and any one may be his Executioner Lib. 6. c. 3. 6. And Suarez had encourag'd them to it likewise telling them If Subjects were once absolv'd from their Oaths they might rise up against their Natural Prince and kill him And their great Cardinal Bellarmin left them also many rebellious Instructions De Cler. lib. 1. c. 29. too tedious to relate and said That all agree that if the King be Tyrannical or Heretical he may and ought to de deprived of his Kingdom Nay he adds to prevent an Objection Si hoc minus factum sit priscis temporibus causa est quia deerant vires De Pont. l. 3. c. 7. though he could not but know that Tertullian and St. Austin tell us the quite contrary But these Modern Authors having said otherwise their Authority did soon prevail and having both Precedents and Commands for such horrid Acts they took up Arms and committed the most execrable Villanies that ever any Mortal read or heard of Some of their chief Prelates and greatest Clergy-men being their Officers and Commanders and others writing and preaching in defence of their Wickedness I might name many but shall only tell you that their Bishop of Ferns calls it a just War Bleeding Iphigenia and says They were forced to take Arms to avoid their own Destruction and in the necessary Defence of their Estates and Religion And how much he and the rest of their Bishops opposed the Cessation is notoriously known and did not Father Molief cause them contrary to the Law of Arms to tear the Heralds Coat who proclaim'd the Peace at Lymerick for which he had Thanks from the Nuncio and the Apostolick

which he does often most severely punish them They are contrary to his Nature Lam. 3.33 who doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the Children of men He never strikes but when he is forc'd and therefore all delight in Cruelty must be most odious unto him If an Executioner instead of striking off a man's Head should cut and mangle all his Body and put him to much greater pain and torture than the Judge decreed he is justly blam'd and punish'd Here the just Judge of Heaven is angry with the bloody Israelites for their severe usage of poor Judah and sends his Prophet to acquaint them with his Resentments of their Barbarity who undauntedly tells them of their sin and denounces the fierce wrath of the Lord against them He did not fear what they could do unto him neither must we dread any in publishing the Commands of God We must cry aloud and spare not and imitate this zealous Prophet in reproving the Tyranny and Oppression of bloody Men. He did not lessen their Outrages but upbraids them for exceeding their Commission in slaying them with a Rage that reached up to Heaven Ad Coelos pertigit inde in se vindictam excitans Mas Their great and unreasonable Rage which they executed with so much severity and delight cry'd loud in Heaven and made God punish them afterward They should not have been so severe to their own Brethren nor took such pleasure and satisfaction in their Punishment God in Judgment remembers Mercy and though he would humble his own People and bring them low he would not have them quite destroy'd But so fierce and outragious are the Enemies of his Children that instead of going they run to destroy them they thirst after their Blood and like the Horse-leech burst ere they are satisfied No less than an Ocean of Blood could sale the greedy Appetite of these Devourers a hundred and twenty Thousand Victims must be Sacrific'd to their Malice By which you see what a heavy Judgment it is to fall into the hands of inveterate Adversaries Well did David choose when he sinned in Numbring the People to receive his Punishment from God's own hand For as Solomon tells you the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel Nothing but the height of Rage and Fury can be expected from them Of this all Ages have given us many and sad Examples but none more than that in which this monstrous and unparallel'd Cruelty was acted which we this day are commanded by the Law of our Nation to commemorate For when God was wroth with us for our sins he suffered the Irish Papists to rise up against us and slay many Thousands in a Rage that reached up to Heaven Which horrid Fact seeing they are grown so impudent and audacious to deny and in their Pamphlets pretend there was only a little Commotion and but some few kill'd and that the Protestants were the first Aggressors I shall as I have been desired to undeceive you that are strangers and for the just Vindication of the English take the usual Liberty allow'd to Preachers on these Occasions and shew you how their Rebellion began who chiefly contriv'd it and what cruel Actions they committed by which you will soon perceive that they imitated these men in my Text and slew their Brethren in a Rage that reached up to Heaven The unhappy Natives of that Country having lived long in a blind Obedience and Vassalage to the Church of Rome and believing the Pope Infallible would not doubt the truth of what his Janizaries the Jesuits did suggest unto them Whatever any of their Clergy affirms Lawful did then and does still pass among the Vulgar for Catholick Doctrine and no Oracle more unquestionable than their Assertions Sic credit Ecclesia weighs down the Balance of Religion and Loyalty let the Doctrine be never so contrary to the Laws of God and Nature Being thus ignorant and credulous and wholly devoted to follow the Advice of their Clergy they ran into Rebellion in the Year 1641. being instigated thereunto by their Church-men who having plotted the Mischief abroad came over in Shoals the Year before as was well known to Men of Wisdom and Observation then living and very apparent from the Intelligence King Charles the First then had from his Ambassadors in Spain and other Countries of which he gave timely Notice to his Justices These grand Incendiaries dispersing themselves throughout the Kingdom and removing the Native Clergy of the Pale into remoter Parts of the Land and placing men out of Vlster and Connaught of more fierce and bloody Principles there they blew up the Trumpet every where to rise in Arms branding us and our Religion with the blackest Calumnies and most falsely telling the People they were a Free Nation and had no dependance upon England and should therefore strive to recover their Ancient Rights and be no longer Subject to an Heretical Prince I say most falsely did they suggest that Ireland was a Free Nation when they cannot but own that it was Conquer'd some hundreds of Years since In which case Grotius tells us De jure be●● lib. 3. c. 6. Jure Gentium non tantum is qui ex justâ causâ bellum gerit sed quivis in bello solenni sine fine modoque Dominus fit eorum quoe ex Hoste eripit Not only he that wages War in a Just Cause but every Man in a Solemn War is Lord and owner of what he takes from the Enemy Xenophon calls it an Everlasting Law with all Men. And Aristotle says The Law of Nations as by an Universal Agreement had ordained That the Conqueror should enjoy what he Conquers it being a general Rule Quoe ex Hostibus capiuntur Jure Gentium statim capientium fiunt Whatever is taken from the Enemy is by the Law of Nations his who takes it If so then certainly Ireland belongs to the Crown of England For not to insist upon King Arthur's Claim when he summoned their Petit Princes to appear before him here and own their Subjection to him Cambden Or upon King Edgar's Conquest who subdued Dublin and the greatest part of the Kingdom and made them acknowledge his Soveraignty over them Giral Cambr. We all know that King Henry the Second reduc'd them to Obedience above Five Hundred Years ago and Charters of Submission to him were voluntarily signed and delivered by the seven Kings of the Country They submitted to Henry the Second to King John to Richard the Second and to Henry the Eight and their Submissions were sworn to signed and recorded yet did they still Rebel as soon as they had Opportunity And though Oneal did in his Letters style Richard the Second his King and perpetual Lord of Ireland and in the Instrument of his Submission used these words Ego Nelanus Oneal tam pro meipso quam pro filiis meis tota Natione mea pro omnibus subditis meis devenio Ligeus homo vester