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A65560	A sermon preached Octob. 23, 1692 before His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and the Lords spiritual and temporal, and divers of the commons, in Christ-Church, Dublin by Edward Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross.	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1692 (1692)	Wing W1518; ESTC R24614	17,334	26

Thursday the 13th of October 1692. By the Lords Spiritual and Temporal In Parliament Assembled Ordered THat the Lord Bishop of Cork do Preach in Christ-Church on the Twenty Third Day of this Month of Octob. before the Lords of this House Gerard Bor Cler. Parl. Munday the 24th of Octob. 1692. By the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled Ordered THat the Thanks of this House be given to the Lord Bishop of Cork for his Sermon Preached yesterday in Christ-Church And that the Earl of Drogheda and the Lord Viscount Blessinton do accordingly give the Thanks of this House to the said Lord Bishop of Cork and desire him to cause his Sermon to be Printed Gerard Bor. Cler. Parl. A SERMON Preached Octob. 23. 1692. Before His EXCELLENCY the LORD LIEUTENANT AND THE LORDS SPIRITUAL and TEMPORAL And divers of the Commons In CHRIST-CHURCH DVBLIN By Edward Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross DUBLIN Printed by Joseph Ray on Colledg Green for William Norman Bookseller in Dames street 1692. ADVERTISEMENT THe Particular Service for the Day according to the Order of Church of Ireland being somewhat long the Preacher was forced to contract his Sermon by Omitting in several places some parts thereof But the Passages omitted in the Pulpit are inserted in the Print Yet so as that what was omitted is distinguished from what was delivered If of any length by being shut in thus ** ** If smaller only thus A SERMON Preached Octob. 23. 1692. 2 Cor. I. 9 10. We had the Sentence of Death in our selves that we should not trust in our selves but in God which raiseth the Dead Who hath Delivered us from so great a Death and doth Deliver in whom we trust that He will yet Deliver us OF my Choice of these Words on this Occasion I hope there needs no other Account than that it is more our Churches than mine The Time when our Apostle and his Brethren in Tribulation as well as Faith had this Sentence of Death in themselves was in the Trouble which came unto them in Asia vers 8. and the History whereto this is supposed to refer we have Acts xix The Honour of the great Goddess Diana whom all Asia and the World then worshipped and of the Image which fell down from Jupiter had now received a Deadly Wound Her Temple was likely to be despised and her Magnificence destroyed for that This Paul had perswaded and turn'd away the People saying That they are no Gods which are made with hands A Pestilent Doctrine indeed For it had this effect at Ephesus that Demetrius's Silver Shrines 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They were most probably pretty Medals with Diana's Image and her Temple's upon them much Finer and more Valuable than our Neighbour's Agnus Dei's and such like Trinkets would not go off as they had done The Craft by which the Silver-Smith and his Fellow Workmen got their Wealth was in danger to be set at nought and now 't was time for the Craftsmen to act at least the Zealots to cry out two hours together Great is Diana of the Ephesians to raise no small stir to put the City in Confusion and Country in an Uproar to lay hold on Pauls Comparions and him too if they could catch him and to rush with one accord into the Theater there to feed the Wild Beasts with the Bodies of Gods Saints and their own Eyes with the Spectacle of them torn in pieces and devour'd At this Juncture We had saith the Apostle the Sentence of Death in our selves The History indeed matches not the Bloodiness and Barbarity of this Day Greece was a Civiller Country though Bigotted enough by Prophets of their own Poets and ●●yars One Wandring Jew our Apostle and a Couple of poor Macedonian Travellers Gaius and Aristarchus his Companions would have satisfy'd the Fury of that Conflux of Idolaters from all the World then at Ephesus One thousand two hundred eighty three persons a day for an hundred and twenty days together or one with another that is * This is the Account in Sir John Temple's Book and as it was given in to the Parliament in England But if from Octob. 23. on which Morning the Rebellion broke out we reckon to March 1 which is somewhat more exact There were 9 days above the four Kallendar Months that is 129 Days And then there fell only one Day with another 1193 Persons a Day and 103 over in the whole An hundred fifty four thousand Souls Men Women and Children in four Months time as the Account was given in by the Actors themselves lest they should have been thought to have been more bloody than they were was a Sacrifice which none but Irish Priests and Popish Votaries could ever have thought of or attempted Nay Diana's Priests in the Acts were yet more reasonable than we think of For their People having got two Persons to make an Example of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vers 31. certain of the Asiatic Priests such in all likelihood they were stood so much Paul's Friends as to preserve even him though Principal from the Theatre and being there a real Tragedy Admit then the Irish Priests in a certain Sacrifice to be no Idolaters yet in Humane Sacrifices they have far exceeded all the Idolaters in the World But however the History will not in all Circumstances come up to our Case the Habit of Mind or Temper here avowed by the Apostle in himself and Brethren will be most seasonable and intimately becoming all whose Condition at any time may have answered theirs by having had a Sentence of Death in themselves We will therefore view First Their Outward Condition and Gods Design upon them thereby vers 9. Then the Faith our Apostle Avows vers 10. which are the main Considerables in these two Verses 1. We had a Sentence of Death in our selves That was their Condition That we should not trust in our selves but in God which raiseth the Dead That was Gods Design upon them and us God in his Providence many times sees fit to bring his faithfullest Servants into such Plunges of Misery and Difficulties whence none but an Almighty Unseen Power can Retrieve them And this to the end he may teach them and others by them dependance on himself alone They are so reduced as that they must trust to Invisible Omnipotence or Nothing As in the Text To God that raiseth the Dead For their Condition is in effect such as that of men in the Grave or under the Power of Death 2. He Avows God had Delivered and even still to the instant in which he spoke did Deliver and that they trusted he would yet Deliver them When in Deplorable or Desperate Circumstances by an Almighty Hand People have been delivered they ought into whatsoever Condition they shall thereafter be reduced for ever to trust to that Deliverer However low the Faith of any other persons at any time may run without sin the least Diffidence in those who have been thus Delivered