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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

shall we expect to go free when we violate our Loyalty and Homage to Almighty God That were inconsistent with his Justice for being a just Judge he must Punish and give Sentence Amos 3.2 And he declares his Resolutions of punishing them this way Lev. 26.17 Ye shall be slain before your enemies they that hate you shall reign over you and ye shall flee when none pursue Many other such grievous Comminations are in his Word which were exactly fulfill'd God making them a Prey to their Enemies and scattering them up and down the Earth And still you may observe the Scripture says God gave them up God caused them to be smitten As in the Text you are told God delivered Judah into the hands of the Israelites which teacheth us two things First That without God's permission our Enemies can have no power over us 'T is when he forsakes when he delivers us up that our Enemies overcome us till he consent they cannot move till by sin we forfeit our Right to his Protection we need not fear which shews us our comfort and security and may arm us against dissidence and distrust for though they long to destroy us though they gnash at us with their Teeth and thirst after our Blood they cannot hurt us till God permit them He restrains them by his power and keeps us under the hollow of his hand Secondly It shews us that whatever Judgments happen to a People God sends or permits them Isa 45.7 Grot. Pisc 'T is he that makes peace and creates our evil our Calamities of War Pestilence or Famine as Interpreters render it And the Psalmist tells us Psal 46.8 'T is he that makes desolations in the earth And what Judgments fall upon us come from him as a just Retribution of our Wickedness He makes use of several Rods to Correct us now Foreign Invasions then Domestick Rebellions he suffers our Neighbours to rise up and destroy us and owns himself the Avenger of Iniquity Rom. 12.19 nor will he lose the Glory of the greatest Executions for Vengeance is his and he will repay it Such Acts are the outward signs and demonstrations of his Justice and Omniscience and our sighs and groans in Adversity contribute to his Honour as well as our Praises and Thanksgivings in Prosperity The shrieks and cries of the Damned in Hell bring Glory to him as well as the Anthems and Hallelujahs of the Saints in Heaven Gen. 18.25 for shall not the Judge of all the earth do right His Justice should be conspicuous to all the World and the most punitive effects thereof are for his Honour and tend to our benefit and advantage They make us acknowledge his Power and fear his Wrath and own with the Psalmist that there is a God which judgeth in the earth Psal 58.11 They make us turn to him with Sorrow and Repentance with Reformation and Amendment Isa 26.9 And when his Judgments are in the earth we will learn Righteousness Nunquam Dei meminerint nisi dum in malis fuerint says Lactantius We seldom remember God as we ought but when his hand lies heavy upon us and presses us down sore so that for the vindication of his own Honour and for our good 't is necessary we should be punish'd and chastis'd 'T is true all his Corrections are not out of Anger some proceed from his Love and are sent as Antidotes to prevent sin and improve our Graces to draw us nearer to him and increase our dependance upon him to know him and our selves better to discern our Frailties and Weakness to wean our hearts from this vain and transitory World to give us a clear sight and sence of our Offences to make us Presidents of Courage and Constancy unto others and to manifest his own Glory in our Deliverance And such I hope are those which we now suffer And therefore beware how you censure those who groan under the sharpest Tryals and most grievous Calamities for in all Ages of the World the holiest Persons have gone through much Tribulation to the Kingdom of Heaven Not to mention the Sufferings of the Patriarchs and Prophets do but see what happened to the Disciples and Followers of the Holy Jesus Was not St. Matthew Martyr'd in Aethiopia St. Mark burnt St. Luke hanged and St. John thrown into a Cauldron of Oyl Was not St. Peter crucified and St. Paul beheaded And were not the rest put to various and cruel Deaths And it would grate your Ears and make your Hearts tremble to hear the Tortures of Christians in the Ten Persecutions They slew them in a rage that reached up to Heaven Severus ordered that none of them should be left alive in all his Territories And Nicephorus tells us we may as well count the Grains of Sand as the Names of all that were Martyred under the Inhumane Decius And in all Ages since the best Christians have undergone great Tryals and Afflictions So that you must be very cautious how you judge of the Sufferings of Kingdoms of Families and Individual Persons You must not think their Calamities are always sent for the Punishment of some grievous sin and that the greatest Sufferers are the greatest Offenders God having many other Ends and Reasons for visiting us with Afflictions and they are Marks and Tokens of his Love his Fatherly Care and Protection and of our Filiation and Adoption as well as of his Wrath and Displeasure Heb. 12.6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth every Son whom he receiveth But we must also know that Judgments do often proceed from his Wrath and are the just Punishments of sin and therefore in publick or private Calamities we should search and examine our own Hearts and see with Job why God contendeth with us and repent and bewail our sins and resolve upon uniform Obedience for the future We should give Glory to God and take shame and confusion of face to our selves and own our Sufferings to be far less then we deserve and say Psal 145.17 The Lord is righteous in all his ways and holy in all his works And let us never imagine they fall upon us by meer Accident Job 5.6 or Chance For affliction ariseth not out of the dust nor trouble out of the mire We cannot perish but by his knowledge consent or permission His Judgments are the just and usual effects and consequents of our sin and are generally sent either to punish us for it or to keep us from committing it And therefore in National or particular Judgments let us still look at that great Hand from whence they come and humble our selves under it and be dumb because God does it The Text tells you He delivered Judah into the Hands of their Enemies If he had not done so they could not have destroy'd them And it also gives you the Reason of it which is the second thing to be considered Secondly He was wroth with them Because he was angry with

them he delivered them to their Tormentors The Israelites could not arrogate this Victory to themselves It was not their Innocency or their Merit which obtained it for they were sinners as well as the men of Judah as the Prophet tells them in the next Verse Verse 6 but they were the sins of the men of Judah which occasioned it because they had forsaken the Lord God of their Fathers Pekah slew in one day an hundred and twenty thousand It was their sin of forsaking God which gave their Enemies that mighty Conquest and Success 'T was that which enabled them to subdue so many stout men at one time Whence observe That neither Courage nor Conduct Strength nor Magnanimity can withstand the Power and Will of God there is no resisting his Almighty Arm when he is provoked by our sins 'T is said When the Lion roars all the Beasts of the Forest tremble And well may poor Mortals quake when God is angry A due consideration of his Power and our own Guilt may fill the stoutest Heart with Dread and Terror Psal 119.120 David though a man of invincible Courage cries out My flesh trembleth for fear of thee and I am afraid of thy Judgments He knew God could afflict him with Spiritual Temporal and Eternal Judgments the apprehension of which did so terrifie him that he could neither sleep nor speak Psal 77.4 Thou keepest me waking and I am astonished I am so troubled that I cannot speak And he gives the Reason of this in the next Verse I have consider'd the days of Old the years of ancient times or the eternal years as the Septuagint renders it 'T is a dangerous thing to provoke a God who is armed and invested with such Power it is not safe to stir up his Anger and Wrath For as David tells you Psal 90.11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger Even according to thy fear so is thy wrath And the Epithets Hot Great Fierce Burning and Smoaking are generally added to the Anger of God in Scripture to shew the great danger of exciting his wrath and the difficulty of resisting it and defending our selves against the fatal consequences of it when 't is once kindled It being as the Apostle says Heb. 10.31 a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God What vast Armies have been defeated what flourishing Cities have been consumed what Noble Countries have been laid waste in his Anger you may at large see in Scripture All the Elements are at his Command and can destroy us when he pleases The Earth the Sea and even Hell it self have opened their voracious mouths and swallowed down numbers in his wrath Angels have come from Heaven and slain whole Armies at a time If one of those powerful Spirits could slay 185000 in a Night as one did in the Army of Sennacherib what can the whole Hoast of Heaven do when God is enraged against us Observe therefore the Advice of Moses Deut. 6.13 and fear the Lord thy God and serve him lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee and destroy thee from off the face of the earth How soon did he make it open and swallow down Corah and his Confederates And did he not rain down Fire and Brimstone from Heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrha Which with many other sudden Judgments in Holy Writ may terrifie us from incurring his Indignation Remember also what he did to his own People of Israel whom he brought through the Red Sea and fed with Manna in the Wilderness and dread the like Executions of his Vengeance and seriously conclude That except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Compare your sins with theirs and you will soon find that you have reason to fear as great and as heavy strokes for sin was never more openly committed and all sorts of Impiety did never more abound than they have done of late years in these Nations The Records of God's former Punishments have had little Operation upon these Kingdoms And we alas who are now met together may with shame and sorrow confess that the dreadful Judgment which we this day commemorate did not Reform us And therefore God hath justly punished us again in delivering us into the hands of our Enemies who but for the Terror of the English Arms would in all probability have slain us as the Israelites did the men of Judah with a rage that would have reached up to Heaven Which is the Third thing in the Text to be discours'd on Thirdly Their cruel usage of the men of Judah in slaying them with a rage that reached up to Heaven When once God gives up a People to be punish'd the Devil instigates the Executioners to do it with all possible Malice and Inveteracy They gratifie their revengeful Appetite at such times their Ambition and Rigour increase with their Power They throw off all sentiments of Humanity and are pleased with those Tragical Spectacles which Nature shrinks at and abhors Thus did Adonibezek cut off the Thumbs and great Toes of seventy Kings and made then feed at his feet and eat the crumbs which fell from his Table Sesostris King of Egypt was of the same cruel Temper He delighted to hear the Kings whom he had conquered groan as they drew his Chariot And did not Lysimachus laugh to see Telesphorus whose Ears and Nose and Lips he had cut off bemoan himself in his tormenting Cage in which he barbarously expos'd him to be seen as some strange Creature The like might I tell you of Cyrus and Cambyses of Nero and Caligula of Domitian and Decius But how remarkably did God punish these and many other cruel Men Did not Cambyses who murdered his Wife and his Brother and slaughtered his Nobility for nothing and cut off all the Syrians Noses fall by his own Sword and his merciless Army eat one another in Aethiopia As they did to others so did God requite them He abhors their Tyranny and insatiable thirst after Blood And his permitting them to punish others will not acquit their Spight and Malice their Rancour and Spleen their Rage and Cruelty in doing of it These are sins which proceed from their own corrupt Nature their perverse Will and free Choice and not from any inevitable Necessity or irresistible Force imposed upon them by Almighty God He tempteth not any man to sin James 1.13 saith St. James He being Holy Just and Perfect cannot seduce man to that which is sinful and concur in the evil of his Actions He withdraws his Grace which softens and restrains the Heart and for want thereof the Heart is hardened as the Earth is by the Sun when its softning moisture is exhaled and drawn up by it And leaving Man to himself thus hardned he is then drawn away with his own Lusts and chooses wills and commits sin for which he is justly accountable And such mens malicious and revengeful Acts are highly offensive and displeasing unto God for