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A25995 A sermon preached in Trinity-College Chappell before the University of Dublin, January the 9th, 1693/4 being the first Secular Day since its foundation by Queen Elizabeth / by St. George Ashe ... Ashe, St. George, 1658?-1718. 1694 (1694) Wing A3933; ESTC R35285 12,914 23

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A SERMON PREACHED IN Trinity-College Chappell BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN JANVARY the 9th 1693 4. Being the First SECULAR DAY SINCE ITS FOUNDATION BY Queen ELIZABETH By St. George Ashe D. D. Provost of Trinity College Dublin Published by the Lords Iustices Command Printed by Joseph Ray on College Green for William Norman Bookseller in Dames-street Dublin 16●4 TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY Lord CAPELL Sir CYRILL WICH and WILL DUNCOMBE Esq LORDS JUSTICES OF IRELAND My Lords IN Obedience to Your Commands I present to Your Lordships the Discourse I made before the University on our Commemoration-day which I justly fear may fall much short of that Favourable Character Your Lordships received of it from some very partial Auditors I am sensible my Lords that its style may appear too exalted and declamatory and many Expressions more fanciful then may be thought by some agreeable to the Gravity of my Place or my usual way of Preaching but that liberty I hope will be excused in consideration of the extraordinary Occasion and Solemnity and the numerous mixt Audience to whom it was addressed If it may any way contribute to Encourage the Study and Improvement of Learning or Raise up any New Friends and Benefactors to our College I shall think its Publication seasonable at least my Lords let not any Mistakes or Weakness in it prejudice Your Lordships against our Society which You have hitherto so generously and kindly Protected The Arts and Muses are proud to call You their own they glory in having formed Your Minds to that rare pitch of Wisdom and Knowledge which is admired by all and therefore 't is from Your Lordships they chiefly expect Patronage and Advancement from Your Lordships I say whose more liberal Education innate greatness of Mind and exalted Station in the World give you a privilege to Reason above the common rate of Mankind and to Protect all such as endeavour to do so by Your Authority and Example That Your Lordships zealous Endeavours for the Good and Prosperity of this Kingdom may ever prosper and Your Government long continue a blessing to us that live under its happy influence shall be the constant Prayer of My Lords Your Lordships most Humble and most Obedient Servant St. George Ashe THE PRAYER BEFORE SERMON LET thy merciful Ears O Lord be open to the Prayers of thy Humble Servants and grant that thy Holy Spirit may direct and guide us in all our ways and be more especially assistant to us in the Holy Actions of this day in enabling us with grateful Hearts and zealous Endeavors to celebrate this Pious Commemoration and to answer by our Studies and Improvements all the great and useful ends of our Munificent Founders and Benefactors We render thee humble Praise and Thanks O Lord for the Most Serene Princess Queen Elizabeth our Illustrious Foundress for King James the First our most Liberal Benefactor King Charles the First and Second our Gratious and Munificent Conservators for the protection and bounty we have received from their present Majesties our most Indulgent Patrons and Restorers for the Favour of our present Governours the Right Honorable the Lords Justices for the Lord Mayor and Goverment of this City our Generous Benefactors for the Nobility Clergy and Gentry of this Kingdom thró whose Bounty and Charitable Generosity we are here Educated and Established for the Improvement of Piety and Religion the advancement of Learning and to supply the growing necessities of Church and State beseeching thee to bless them all their Posterity Successors Relations and Dependants with both Temporal and Eternal blessings and to give us Grace to live worthy of these thy Mercies and that as we grow in Years so we may grow in Wisdom and Knowledg and Vertue and all that is praiseworthy thrô Jesus Christ our Lord A SERMON Preach'd before the UNIVERSITY of DVBLIN St. Matthew XXVI 13. Verily I say unto you wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached in the whole world there shall also this that this Woman has done be told for a memorial of her OF such universal Obligation is the great duty of Gratitude so necessary an ingredient is it both to a Holy and a Happy Life that our Blessed Saviour who came into the World to teach us Virtue in every instance could not be wanting to inculcate as well by Example as Precept this general parent one this Original Spring which gives force and activity to so many lesser Graces which makes Love to admire Joy to applaud Humility to reflect upon the indigence of humane Nature that needed such benefits Thankfulness ever to celebrate 'em and sets 'em all incessantly at work to perform its various Offices A certain Pious Woman as we read in the Verses preceding the same who in another Gospel chose the better part the one thing needful having profited much by the Doctrine of Jesus and been witness to many of his Miracles to express her sence thereof brought the most pretious thing she had a Box of costly Ointment and pour'd it on his Head as he sat at Meat so that it ran down to all the parts of his body and with its grateful odour fill'd the whole house this kind act of hers our Saviour in my Text thus solemnly and gratefully acknowledges and declares that it shall be for ever celebrated and remembred Now how parallel this case is to the occasion of our present Meeting a little reflexion may evince A Princess the most eminent for Piety Learning Chastity and Happy Government that ever blessed these Kingdoms having enlightened our n●ighbouring Nation with the brightness of the Reformation a●d fenc'd it in by Laws and just Authority against all the open force and secret contrivances of Popery or Schism took into Her Royal Thoughts also the care and concerns of our poor Island almost quite over-run with Barbarity and Superstition and as the most effectual means to polish the one and reform the other Founded this Seminary whose Secular Solemnity we now Celebrate whence true Religion and Virtue sound Learning and ingenious Education might always spring up and issue forth to Plant and Cultivate the rest of the Land She pour'd this Box of Pretious Ointment upon the Head or Capital of our Kingdom whence it might stream or descend to the most distant parts and refresh the whole with its excellent savour She laid in here such lasting Supplies of Piety and Literature which like Ointment might smooth the natural roughness of our Temper supple our morosest Passions make us of a cheerful Countenance render us active fit for any Employment to which Church or State should call us and like a Sweet and Pretious Ointment too might not only gratifie our own Faculties improve and better our own Souls but by a happy emanation shed its agreeable influence on all that approach us and thô some ignorant or envious by-standers may as Judas with indignation say to what purpose was this wast what needed this Royal Munificence yet we