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A64688	Vox hibernæ, or, Rather the voyce of the Lord from Ireland a sermon preached in Saint Peters Church at Westminster before divers of the right honourable the lords of the upper House in the high court of Parliament : on the last publike fast day, being Wednesday the 22th of December 1641 : wherein the miserable estate of the kingdome of Ireland at this present is laid open and the people and kingdome of England earnestlie exhorted to turne to Almight God by true repentance least the same iudgements or worse fall upon us / by the laborious and reverend Doctor Iames Vsher ...	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.	1642 (1642)	Wing U228; ESTC R233006	11,072	17

VOX HIBERNAE OR Rather the voyce of the Lord from IRELAND A Sermon Preached in Saint Peters Church at Westminster before divers of the Right Honorable the Lords of the upper House in the High Court of PARLIAMENT on the last publike Fast day being Wednesday the 22th of December 1641. Wherein the miserable estate of the Kingdome of Ireland at this present is laid open and the people and Kingdome of England earnestlie exhorted to turne to Almighty God by true repentance least the same Iudgements or worse fall upon us By the laborious and reverend Doctor IAMES VSHER Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland Luke 13. 4 5. Thinke you that those 18. upon whom the Tower in Siloe fell and slew them were sinners above all men in Ierusalem 5. I tell you nay but except you amend your lives you shall likewise perish Printed at London for Iohn Nicolson under Saint Martins Church within Ludgate 1642. VOX HJBERNIAE LUKE 13. 5. Except ye repent you shall all likewise perish A Harsh Text you will say yet notwithstanding uttered by him that was the Merchant of men he that was the good Phisitian that came to cure us Who as hee testifies of himselfe in the 12. os Saint Iohn that hee came not to judge the world but to condemne the world And yet he that was the Saviour of the World meanes to save none without faith and repentance and therefore he telles us That except we repent we shall all likewise perish The occasion of the words was from a matter that was told unto him a storie that men told as a thing that no way appertained unto them Pilate he had mingled the blood of the Galileans with their sacrifices now ths Pharisees they heard of it and this they tell as newes to our Saviour Christ as if it had no way touched them and so our Saviour seeing they tooke not the matter as to themselves for examples unto them tells them that whatsoever Iudgements they did see executed upon others the very selfe same thing would bee to them if they did not repent To apply it unto our selvee It is the case of our neighbour nation what are they greater sinners then we I tell you nay the very same Iudgements that fall upon them shall fall upon you vnlesse you prevent it by timely repentance These judgements are sent as examples and instructions unto us Those that fell with their carkasses in the wildernesse are examples unto us that wee might not run unto the same excesse of riot The Lord might have made you examples unto Ireland as well as he hath made Ireland an example unto you As the Lord saith in the Prophesie of Hosea 4. 11. I have overthrowne some of you as God did overthrow Sodom Gomorah ye are as a firebrand snatcht out of the burning yet you returned not God hath overthrowne that land especially the best of the land according as he did to Germanie And now he is come neerer to us The miseries calamities which they indure were too tedious to relate Et animus reminiscere horret luctusque refugit And as if God did intend yet to shew us his judgements more neere to us the fire breakes out in that corner of the nation that wee least feared which should cause us to repent in Sackcloath and ashes Wee know it is the case of our Soveraigne that we should take this to heart We know that David when the judgements of God was upon him in his child then he fasted and humbled his soule with fasting yea and is hee did when affections were upon others of his Brethren that were no great friends unto him Wee see it also in Nehemiah that he hearing such newes as we now heare from Ireland Nehemiah 1. 3. Nehemiah asked how his brethren the children of Israell were as he was told that they were in great afflicton This was the newes how doth he take it And it came to passe when I heard these words I sate downe and wept and mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven This is the sence that all the members of the body should have one of another They should call upon God one for another God makes this an example unto us that if we doe not repent the same judgement or a greater shall fall upon us The thing which we are to doe is to repent The Physitian he tells us the danger that we are in if we do not repent he gives us a proviso that if will take this course notwithstanding the evill that is against us he will forgive us if we do repent And here we will see first the danger we are in The danger is perishing either repent or there is no possibility of salvation noe prevention of Gods judgements in this world nor in the world to come without repentance thinke not that these words are in vaine thinke not that these wordes are spoken in vaine T' is not a bare and cold profession of Religion that shall save you if you do not repent you shall perish and be destroyed Beloved wee must Consider with our selves that God is mercyfull when he will pardon a sinner But when he intends to leave them he is not mercyfull if they do not repent And thou deceivest thy selfe and makest an Idoll of thy God if thou thinke that he is so made up of mercy that he hath forgotten to be just The Lord will breake the hairie scalpe of them that commit iniquity Say not I shall be delivered notwithstanding I goe on in these courses the Lord will not have mercy upon that man A man that goes on in iniquity the Lord will not have mercy upon such an one his mercy appeares to them that are weary of their sinnes and come unto him what is it that makes the sin of the Holy Ghost so terrible as it is there described Heb. 6. 6. It is impossible If they shall fall away to renew them againe unto repentance That 's the deadly sinne the sinne against the Holy Ghost But what what is it I aske thee that makes this sinne so deadlie why because he that commits this sinne is not renewed by repentance If he were renewed by repentance this sinne against the Holy Ghost should be forgiven him doe not thinke that the sinne of man is above the mercy of God do not thinke that any sin that mortall man can commit shall out-vie the blood of Christ the sin against the Holy Ghost should not be deadly except the point lie in this hee cannot be renewed by repentance so that if thou be not renewed by repentance thou art in the state of him that is guilty of the sinne against the Holy Ghost of one miserable and irrecoverable many thinges I have to speake but I see that my time is but short and therefore I must be briefe You see the first thing the danger is inevitable no way to scape it but if we repent the Lord

was slaine in the law He that offered him was to lay his hand upon the head of the Lambe and confesse his sinnes over him and then the Lambe was slaine Now consider this my swearing my lying my vanity my pride in apparrell and all my sinnes ●ll are laid upon the Lambs head that was never guilty of these vanities the Lambe of God hee was slaine though thou canst not groane for thy sinnes thou canst not weepe for thy sinnes Looke then looke upon Christ he sought God with strange cryes and teares not in regard of the punishment though thou diddest not cry for thy sinnes he had strong cryes and teares Phil 5. And observe the highest crie My God my God why hast thou forsaken me You that thinke sinne to be so small a matter consider your sinne as it lay upon Christ strong cryes you see it cost him Consider him lying graveling upon the ground as it were panting for life sweating blood before his Father crying Father if it be possible take this cup from me As if hee should say if hou wilt shew onely mercie passe by thy judgement all this time with cryes and with strong teares and the third time cryes upon the Crosse My God my God why hast thou forsaken me When all the earth had a blacke Mantle cast over it darkenesse over him that was the light of the World and as great a darkenesse in him his soule was darkened within him To consider these things is able to breake the heart of any man that hath the lest sparke of grace in him But then consider with thy selfe thus What hath sin done to me First it hath defiled thee 1 Cor. 5. 1. He wishes us that wee would keepe our selves from all defilement of body and spirit That which goes into the mouth of a man defiles not a man but that which goes out for from within even out o the heart of man proceedeth evill thoughts Luke 7. 21. 22. Adulterie Fornications Murthers Theft Covetuousnesse Wickednesse Deceit Vncleannesse a wicked eye backbiting pride foolishnesse There is no sinne that thou committest but it bespots thy soule Did you but see the soule of a sinner what dishonour and slaine brings to it it is like a filthy spot in pure white Lawne your sinnes they have made a separation between you and your God They are now in a state of enmitie saith God my soule doth loathe them and their soule doth loath me There is an utter s●paration betweene God and us by sinne And after all this comes God and inlarges thee from Satan that possessed thee but the Prince of this world is cast out who is the Prince of the world the Prince that rules in the children of Disobedience And this is the Iudgement which our Saviour brings the Prince of this world but unt●ll wee bee renewed by repentance still where God comes out the Devill comes in A man is so possest that for his life he hath not the power to resist the least temptation of the Devill but as fast as he tempts he committs sinne and then comes Gods Iudgement you have it in Deut. 28. your sins are a breach of covenant with Almighty God do you think that Covenant breakers breakers of Covenant shall scape They are put amongst the blacke guard in the first of the Romans Adulterers swearers truce-breakers I will send among you plagues the judgements that are not written in this booke Why saith Turtullian Scipturae plenitudinem habent The Scriptures have a fulnesse I have seene an end of all perfection but thy commandements are exceeding large And yet there are unwritten judgements The Scripture which is perfect it doth not containe all the judgements which God will send upon sinners And hence from the consideration of this comes loathing of a mans selfe and a godly sorrow these are the affections we should have when we have produced our faults and the law hath shewne the miserie we are liable to by the committing of them then a man come to abhorre himselfe as Iob saith Therefore I repent and obhorre my selfe in dust and ashes you see this abhorring a mans selfe it is a concomitant of true repentance Those that be in the darke though they be naked they are not ashamed why because they see no light but when the light of Gods Spirit hath discovered to a man his foulenes and his shame then they doe repent and abhorre themselves Ezek. 26. God exhorts them that they should loath themselves as a signe of repentance Shame you know it is a part of the judgement against sin for Daniel the last chapter and the second verse Some shall rise to shame and to everlasting contempt Now when we come to judge ourselves that we be not judged of God we must bring ourselves to this shame And as Ezra when hee came by fasting and repentance to God hee saith I am ashamed to come before thee not for his owne sinnes but for those among whom he was The best fruit that thou canst reape of sinne though it be repented is shame The Prophet Zephaniah saith the wicked know no shame Ier. 6. 15. were they ashamed when they had done these things they were not ashamed neither could they blush when thou hast done these things and considerest them art thou ashamed of them When thou considerest of them betweene God and thy owne conscience dost thou blush You that were not ashamed to commit the sinne now that God hath opened your eyes see whether you can blush and be ashamed before Almighty God for committing these sinnes But then there is sorrow which is the last thing which sorrow must be true and from the heart the inward sorrow it is contrition it is the rending and breaking of the heart when a man is ready to teare himselfe in peeces because that he hath offended so gracious a God that hath done so much for us This is that which the Apostles calls that same sorrow which is according to God 1. Iam. All Israell wept before the Lord suppose there were no Hell no damnation no outward judgement yet as long as there is a God in Heaven I cannot but be sorrow for my sinne and when thou canst doe thus it is an argument thou art a penitent sinner and this is done by fasting and weeping fasting and weeping they are things that are joyned together 1. Sam. 7. 6. It is said that when the Philistims came against them they fasted and powred down water by the Lord that is they made or wept such abundance of teares as if water had beene powred downe and so Iudg. 2. 4. When the Angell came to Bochim and told the people of their sins the people lift up their voice and wept Beloved Beloved doe not our dry eyes this day testifie that we have little sorrow remember that place in Zachary they shall looke upon him whom they have pierced Zach. 12. 10. And they shall lament for him as one mourneth for his onely Son and be sorry for him as one is sorry for his first borne Doft thou weepe for thy son and not for crucifying of thy Saviour It is not set downe that sorrow shall be in them but they shall bee sorrow to shew the greatnesse of it as though they were steeped and soaked in it and such a sorrow as was in the valley of Megiddo when Iosiah died in memory or which Ieremiah wrote his booke of Lamentations And they shall sorrow apart to shew that it is a part that sorrow which is a part it is particularly every man it was not the Iewes speares or sins that did crucifie Christ but thy sins Beloved I must speake now concerning the matter of Fasting and beloved it must be fasting not such a superficiall fasting as we commonly use but fasting of another nature we doe not understand the name of it if you compare Luk. 5. 33. and Mat. 9. 14. Together why doe the Disciples of Iohn the Pharisees fast often but thy Diciples fast not as Saint Mat. hath it but Saint Luk. thus why doe the Diciples of Iohn fast often and pray and the Diciples of the Pharisees also but thine eate and drink he that eates or drinks any thing his fast is done and the least droppe of water thou hast taken it breakes 〈◊〉 shell of thy fasting And it was the Doctrine of the ancient ●●thers that he that had tasted but a drope of water he had do●● with his fast for that day And this outward fasting must 〈…〉 onely be from anything that is to be eaten but also from all delight let the bridegroome come forth of his chamber that which we know to be lawfull and good yet because it hath a solace in it that ordinance of God it must be forborne any outward kinde of solace that gives content it must be avoided our apparrell the wearing of our best apparrell any thing that may be contrary to the fasting see Ahab when hee fasted hee humbled himselfe and wept and put on sackcloth and went fastly that is he went barefoot now those that goe barefoot cannot but tread very softly Esah 58. 13. Thou shalt not think thy owne thoughts speake thine on words nor doe thy owne Actions The Prophet doth there speak of the Sabboth which was on the tenth day of the seventh Moneth not of the Hebdomate weekly Sabboth the saturday but of the universary Sabboth and the beginning of the Chapter runneth that way Wee have fasted and thou hast not looked upon us that fasting day wherein as some report Adam fell they should not doe any thing This was but the shall of fasting all outward things that can give content to the outward man must be avoided so farre as necessity will brooke it But I see the time is past thus much therefore shall serve for this time FINIS Pag. 1. lin. 8. for but to condemne the world rea but to save the world In a Sermon preached by D. Williams Arch-Bishop of Yorke Obiection Answer