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A66362	Eight sermons dedicated to the Right Honourable His Grace the Lord Duke of Ormond and to the most honourable of ladies, the Dutchess of Ormond her Grace. Most of them preached before his Grace, and the Parliament, in Dublin. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Griffith, Lord Bishop of Ossory. The contents and particulars whereof are set down in the next page.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1664 (1664)	Wing W2666; ESTC R221017	305,510	423

say or do I could not prevail to have the Record amended according to the original Record And when I saw that I desired my Counsel to desire their Lordships either to grant that it might be amended or to quash it out of hand that I should not spend my self in Dublin but go to begin a fresh and to indict them again and then my Lord Chief Justice answered seeing we desired to quash it let it be quasht which in respect of the Kings fine I conceived should not be done if the original Indictment found by the Jury was good Then I got the Kings Sollicitor Mr. Temple and the Kings Sergeant Sergeant Griffith and Mr. Darcy to draw me an Indictment that would stand good in Law and presently I went to Kilkenny and required the Justices of the peace to send their prēcipe to the Sheriff to summon 24 men to appear at Freshfoord the 23 of the instant which they did accordingly and the Deputy Sheriff appointed these Gentlemen to be summoned Nom. Jur. ad inquirend John Grace of Courtstowne Esq Jonas Wheeler Gent. Rich. Donvil Gent. William Davies Gent. Walter Bushop Gent. Walter Nosse Gent. John Pursel Gent. William Pay Gent. William White Gent. Ralph Hale Gent. Lewis Mathews Gent. Robert Grace Gent. George Lodge Gent. Edmund Butler Gent. Matthew White Gent. William Hunter Gent. Thomas Green Gent. Vincent Knatehbul Gent. Ric. Comerford of Degenmore G. Tho. Bowers of Knoctopher G. Emanuel Palmer Gent. Mathias Reilegh Gent. Chri. Auetstone of Thomastone Tho. Hussie of Gowrom Gent. Toby Boyle of Condonstown Gent. Tho. Tomlius of Lyniate Abby Joseph Wheeler of Killrush George Barton of Goslingstown G. But before the Bayliffs were gone to summon them the High Sheriff was come to the Town and seeing the List of the Subscribed and having conferred with Sir George Ayscue that lay in the next Room where the Sheriff lay he said those men should not serve in the Jury but he would choose a Jury for this business and he nominated such men Anabaptists Presbyterians and others of the most rigid Sectaries that were in all the whole County Yet because I knew two or three of them to be very honest men I was very well contented with them But as soon as ever I was gone from the Sheriff those men were put by and other Sectaries put into the List in their stead * A Jury as my friends that knew them said would hang all the Bishops in Ireland if they were their Jury to try them And the Bailiff coming to me for more money then I had given him for summoning those that the Deputy Sheriff had appointed because now the High Sheriff had appointed men that he had picked out over all the County of Kilkenny Then I suspected some evil determined against me and I desired the Bayliff to shew me the List of those that he was to summon and when I saw those honest men that I knew put our and others put in their room I put the Warrant in my Pocket and bad the Bayliff tell the Sheriff that my Witnesses for the King were not ready and after he told this to the Sheriff he c●me to me again weeping and crying and desired me for Gods sake to give him his Warrant For the Sheriff was very angry with him and he was utterly undone for shewing me the Warrant but I kept it still in my Pocket And thus was I served with a great deal of travel and charge above 60 li. in seeking to recover the Church Lands which I resolved and vowed if I could recover it to bestow it wholly for the repairing and re-edifying of the flat-fallen Church of Kilkenny And now let the Judge of all the World and let all just and honest men judge whether this be a fair and just proceeding But quorsum haec To what purpose is all this pains of this Relation Is it to taxe and charge the Reverend Judges either of injustice or partiality No By no means I taxe no man but I set down rem gestam the whole matter a capite ad calcem and they the Judges and Counsellours being great Lawyers may find all this to be just and especially to make it seem so to be and though for all cheating Pettifoggers and covetous Counsellours that against the dictate of their own consciences and against their King and against the Church of God will for a Fee sell their souls unto the devil I hate their doings that are Sicutatri ●anua ditis Yet I do from my heart honour and reverence all the grave and just Judges and Learned Lawyers without whose help and Counsel and Judgment we could not live in this Common-wealth And though I failed at the Kings Bench to prevail to procure those Fines unto the King which I conceived should be imposed upon those five that I indicted whereof the chief of them that is Captain Burges is now sent Prisoner to Dublin by my Lord of Ossory which may be a just Judgement that he should be committed by my Lord of Ossory for his abuse done to the Bishop of Ossory yet I have had very fair Justice done me by the Judges of the Court of Claim and I am confident to find the like from them again and to be righted by the Judges of the Court of Exchequer * And so likewise from the Kings Bench and Common Pleas. for the wrongs and damages that I sustained by those that forcibly entered upon my Possessions and do still detain it from me when I shall bring the cause before them Therefore I have no reason for the biting of a mad Dog to hang all the good Dogs in the Countrey or for the abuse or injustice done me by some one man or few Lawyers to exclaim against all others when as the Poet adviseth us Parcere paucorum diffundere crimen in omnes But I do exceedingly tax my self and mine own understanding that understanding both Greek and Latine and having read what Lambert Bolton and Dalton have written of Forcible Entries I should be such a Dolt as not to understand this Proceeding of mine about the Indictment of those Forcible Enterers to be a just and a fair Proceeding Therefore mine apprehension conceiving such proceedings to be foul and very much amiss and that the justice which I had upon the whole matter had not what Pindarus such Justice useth to have that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I thought good to set down the same not to accuse and complain against any one for being unjust or to seek any redress unto my self for I have born and can be contented still to bear more wrongs than this But I do it for these ends 1. To let poor men see how they may be wronged and oppressed and have their Land and Possessions taken from them by great and powerful men and what they are best to do in such a case and my counsel is to be patient because as I said before Levius fit patientia quicquid

wholly frustrated because he knew Way 1 God was of pure eys and could not endure rebellion and disobedience to his commands and therefore thought he if I can seduce Adam to eat the forbidden fruit I shall evacuate that design of God and break that Gordian-knot all to pieces And when he saw that this Plot could not prevail to annihilate the decree of God to love and to unite man unto himself but that the wisedom and goodness of God found out a way to verifie that saying qui struit insidias aliis sibi damna dat ipse he that digs a Pit for another shall fall into it himself when God said Gen. 3. that the seed of the woman which Satan had seduced should break the Serpents head and so bring more damage to the Devil then to either Man or Woman then Way 2 2. He inticed Cain to kill his owne Brother Abel still to provoke God against Man and to hinder this Union betwixt God and Man and when he saw that God in mercy had granted another seed by the birth of Seth then he thought to work more wisely and more generally to corrupt the whole World and to make the Sons of God whom he loved to run a Whoring after the Daughters of those men whom he hated And seeing this device that was so devilish yet would not do the deed that he desired but that Noah found favour in the sight of God to preserve the generation of mankind and that God which is the God of truth would not alter the thing that is gon out of his mouth Then Way 3 3. He puts off the shape of the Serpent and leaves to play the Fox and putteth on the Lions skin and like a Lion indeed he seeks by his cruelty at sundry times and in divers manners to destroy that blessed seed from whence Christ the God and Man should spring As 1. When he stirred up and moved wicked Pharaoh Exod. his first-born Tyrant to kill all the male children of the Israelites from whom God had promised unto Abraham the blessed seed should spring And then raised up proud Haman to root out all the Jews and the whole off-spring of David to whom God had sworn and made a faithful Oath that the Messias should come out of his Loyns and after that caused Antiochus whose sirname Epiphanes signified Illustrious but his deeds were most odious to persecute all the Jews and to butcher the best of them that so he might hinder the birth of that blessed Seed and crush the Chickin while it was in the shell And when all this his subtletie and cruelty could not serve the turn but that Christ was born indeed and had hypostatically united our flesh un●o his deity Then Way 4 4. He playes the Devil indeed and stirreth up Herod to kill all the Children that were in Bethlehem and in all the Coasts thereof that so by that means he might kill Christ and when he seeth he could not kill him he laboureth to corrupt him to make him to forsake his God as he had done and to throw himself down from the Pinnacle and to break his neck or to fall down and worship him for he knew this if he could effect it would unty the knot and hinder the progress of Gods purpose But as holy Job affirmeth non est potestas quae comparetur ei Job 42.2 and saith Job 24.2 to God I know that thou canst do every thing and that no thought of thine can be hindred Quia non est consilium contra Dominum because no counsel can prevail against the Lord therefore his counsel did stand and his will is done and the Word is made flesh John 1.14 and we saw his glory as the glory of the onely begotten of the Father full of grace and truth And yet for all this though he seeth the Promise of God fulfilled and his truth accomplished and God united to our nature he still persisteth in his pride and prosecuteth his malice against man to frustrate and oppose the will of God And though Christ by his death which he brought him to hath overcome death and led captivity captive yet doth he never leave to hinder men to reap the benefit of Gods favour and the fruits of the death and passion of Jesus Christ but fostering still his pride and rebellion against God and his malice against man he entereth into the hearts and possesseth the very souls of all wicked men so that he maketh some of them to become meer Atheists scarce to believe that there is a God and many more to deny the mysterie of Christs Incarnation as do the Jews and Turks to this very day and others he bewitcheth to believe most damnable errors as with that Dog Servetus to deny the humanity of our Saviour Christ and others to blaspheme against his Deity as that accursed Arius and his followers and so he still laboureth to hinder this truth to be believed at all or at least not to be believed in that manner as it should be Zanchius de Operibus Dei l. 4. c. 2. And all this you may more amply see in Rupertus Tuitiensis de victoria Verbi Dei and in Zanchius de Operibus Dei de peccato Angelorum And this consideration of the Pride and Rebellion of the Devil against God and his implacable malice against man should teach us all to take special care to beware of him and to pray to God to bless us from him and not to have him so often as we have him in our mouths nor especially in our hearts So you have seen that although by nature the Devils were good and so created good by God yet by their pride and continual rebellion against God they made themselves Devils and the Authors of all evil for evermore Yet lest we should erre about their nature Two points to be considered about the nature of the Devils as they are now in statu corrupto corrupted by their own wickedness we are to consider these two points 1. That there are many things that in themselves are good in them 2. That all those good things are perverted and corrupted by them to a perverse and wicked end For 1. You must understand that by their fall they have not Point 1 lost all those endowments and excellencies which God had given them in their creation and whatsoever they do retain which they have had from God the same is and must needs be good but their natural substance and their natural qualities as their knowledge their understanding wisdom agility invisibility immortality strength and the like are all given them by God and they are the works of God and these in themselves simply considered must needs be good because all that God made were and still are exceeding good And therefore let not wicked men oppressors Church-robbers Adulterers proud persons and the like That men should not think it enough to have some good things in them