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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41323	A sermon preached in the Cathedrall Church of St. Patrick's Dublin, on the 5th of November, 1690 before the Right Honourable the Lords Justices of Ireland / by John Finglas ...	Finglas, John, Prebend of St. Audoens, Dublin.	1690 (1690)	Wing F950; ESTC R5603	16,312	28

into the very bottom of the Seas thinking its like that God had devided the waters for no other end then for him to pitch his Field in against his own People It s plain if God had not taken him off he had never taken his rod off the Israelits If we should after him look upon Manasses that wretched Idolater who did evil in the sight of the Lord after the abomination of the Heathens he built the high places which his good Father Hezekiah had destroyed he erected Altars for them and that in the Courts of the Lord all which was attended with such Barbarous and Dispiteful wasting and oppressing of the Church of God that it is said in the 2 of Kings 21. 16. that Manasses shed Innocent blood exceeding much till he replenisht Jerusalem from corner to corner We might likwise reflect upon Haman that Idolatrous Tyrant the Text tells you Est 3 6. that being full of wrath against Mordecay for not bowing unto him he thought it to little to lay hands only on Mordecay but thought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole Kingdom of Ahasueras and for this purpose procured letters from the King which he sent into all the Provinces to Root out to Kill and to Destroy all the Jewes both young and old Children and Women in one day Est 5. 15. I might further instance in Antiochus Epiphanes that Monster of men for his horrible Idolatry and savage Cruelty against the Jewes called Epimanes in both which he so raged that never was the like since there began to be a Nation till that time as the Prophet Daniel tells us in Chap. 12. 1. What shall I speak of the Tyrany and Cruelty of those Heathen Roman Emperors within the first 300 years after Christ by whom not only the Apostles themselves suffered Death but whosoever made any profession of their Doctrine were most ignominously tormented no respect had of Sex or reverence of Age so that the Historie of those times seem to be writ in blood of which those Monsters of nature in the shape of men made such effusion that we read the dead bodies of Men Women and Children old and young together were cast out and lay naked in the Streets like the pavement thereof And indeed that enmity put by God himself between the seed of the Serpent and the seed of the Woman seems to intimate as much which David sound in Psalm 38. 19 20. They that render me evil for good are mine adversaries because I follow the thing that God is this spightful wrath was kindled in them agaist him because of his Religion and Piety with which their corruption could admit no accord as Cain slew his brother because his own works were evil and his brothers righteous so our Saviour tells us in John 7. 7. The world hateth me because I testifie of it that the deeds therof are evil and that his Disciples might not be surprized when they meet with the like usage he forwarns them in John 15. 19. If you were of the world the world would love his own but because ye are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you and further tells them ye shall be hated of all Nations for my name sake and therefore informs them that he sent them forth as Sheep into the midst of the Wolves which David long before found true and thereupon complains in Psal 57. 4. My soul is among Lyons and I lye among them that are set on fire even the Sons of men whose Teeth are Spears and Arrows and their Tongue a sharp Sword It were easie to enlarge upon these and other heads but upon such occasions as this which are but annually observed amongst us I have always thought it more proper to stick close to the business of the day then to expatiate by way of common place or otherwise upon any of the Truths proposed and therefore in the next place without any more ado I shall endeavour to evidence that this Plotting Contriving and Mischievous Spirit is the very Spirit that rules and influences Popery at this day which Religion if it deserves so good a name exceeds all other the Turkish not excepted in Barbarous Bloodshed and Cruelty Long it were to recite and almost incredible to believe those Horrible slaughters which might be induc'd to prove this part for there is neither Writer that can be so diligent nor Writing so exact as to make a sufficient Relation of the barbarous usages offered to the Saints by these Enemies of the Truth verifying that Prophecy Rev. 17. 6. where it is affirmed that that Woman with whom the Kings of the Earth have committed Fornication was drunk with the blood of the Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus By this Woman the Jesuits themselves are forced to confess is meant their Rome but old Rome say they such as it was under the Heathen Emperors But let them consider the other circumstances in the foregoing part of the Chap. and then dec lare if they can how this can agree with old Rome for where are those arraid in Scarlet colour but in their new Rome In whose forhead is the Name MISTERY written but in the present Romish Babilon The Heathen Emperors Proclaimed open War against Christianity and carried not their enmity in secret and in a mistery they exercised their Cruelty to aper to marte as we say wherein either warning to Prepare or Intreaty or Truce or Flight might have satisfied or prevented the Enemy and saved the lives of those that were exposed but these Romanists carry on their Plots and their Mischiefs with such secrecy and such mistery that it is almost as imposable to make any league with them as it is with Hell it self insomuch that according to most Writers the Syrian Antiochus Epiphanes was a lively Type of the Romish Antiochus who was to come after him and is now in the world and the Author of no less misery to the Church then he was for see how Daniel describes him His power shall be mighty but not in his strength he shall destroy wonderfully and shall prosper and practice and shall destroy the mighty and the Holy People And by his Policy shall cause Craft to Prosper in his hand He shall magnifie himself in his heart and by Peace shall destroy many Dan 8. 24 25. A lively description of the Romish Antiochus of that Beast rising out of the Sea of which we Read Rev 13. 11. having as well the horns of the Lamb as the speech of the Dragon that is prosessing the Meckness and Inocency of Christ but exercising the Force and Power of the Dragon intruding himself as the head and husband of the Church while he Robs and Spoils it Possessing himself a servant of servants while he sets himself above all Kings and Princes as Boniface the Eighth in the year 1300 before a great concourse at one of their Jubilies