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A65552	Pastoral admonitions directed by the Bishop of Cork to all under his charge ; whereunto is added A sermon reflecting on the late sufferings and deliverance of the Protestants in the said county and city, preached at White-Hall on the fourth Sunday in Lent, March 22, 1690.	Church of Ireland. Diocese of Cork and Ross. Bishop (1679-1699 : Wettenhall); Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1691 (1691)	Wing W1508; ESTC R38579	20,756	56

PASTORAL ADMONITIONS Directed by the BISHOP of CORK To all under His Charge Whereunto is added A SERMON REFLECTING On the late Sufferings and Deliverance of the Protestants in the said County and City Preached at White-Hall on the Fourth Sunday in Lent March 22. 1690. CORK Printed by John Brent for David Jones Bookseller and are to be sold at his Shop in Cork 1691. Through hast these faults are escaped which be pleased to amend before you read the whole PAg. I. lin 10. read I wish pag. VI. l. 17 r. I do not say we here p. IX l. 21. 1 are able to p. XI l. 1. r. from every evil p. 16. l. 14. r. wrath both of God's and of their own p. 22. l. 7. r. Wraths p. la●t l. 10. r. together Laws To my Dearly Beloved Brethren and Neighbours of the County and City of Corke As well such who were Fellow Sufferers with me in all our late Calamities as such who Retired seasonably from part of them Grace and Peace be multiplied Brethren and Neighbours Dearly Beloved My Joy and I wish I may be able to say My Crown THat I was not unmindful of you or wanting to do you j●stice in that my late absence which bodily indisposition first made necessary and then circumstances that I could not remedy protracted beyond my first or last intention to ten tedious months My Constant Thoughts and Prayers as well as the Account I every where gave of you could you be sufficiently acquainted therewith would abundantly manifest But to possess you with such things is not the design of the present paper to you It comes only to bring to you an Admonition or two which the same my constant true Affection and Zeal for your good prompts Namely to beseech and conjure you that you will be mindful of and just to your selves I mean to those your Vows which your lips have uttered and your mouths have spoken when we were in trouble Humane nature is very apt upon all occasions to promise fair but mutable withal and slow to perform Beware of it Though I most intimately knew your sufferings and felt not only my own share but by compassion and sympathy a great measure of your share also yet I cannot say I am privy to any special vows then made by any of you but I am confident this in general was the common vow of all or most of us that If God would please to mend our condition we would mend our manners In his name therefore I importune and conjure you to Examine strictly whether you have been faithful herein to what you then in your hearts intended and promised What lives did you while in prisons or restraints while every minute as to life it self in your enemies hands and at their mercy when amidst flames and ravage Amidst bullets great and small and Bombs over your heads What lives I say did you then promise to God and your selves to live if God youchsafed to deliver you from those Calamities How often and how constantly to pray to fast to communicate to keep a strict account of your ways What sobriety reservedness and considerativeness in all your Actions did you promise and project What retrenchments of unnecessaries and Luxury What Liberality in Alms What abandoning of this world and habitual prepatation for Heaven And have we done all this Those of us who were not in these dangers being before hand driven away with the terrors of the storm we saw approaching did notwithstanding I question not in the respective places whither they had fled make to God like promises or Vows I may therefore generally speaking say Then we were all of us in a great measure reformed serious in our Religion zealous for it penitent for our sins full of Faith and Resignation to God Nay really not only in those our extremities but some while both before things came to such height and afterwards there appeared much of such happy change upon most of us Now do we still retain the same impressions the same resolution temper and endeavour as then we seem'd inspirited with I must be plain and vehement with you for my soul and your souls lie at stake If we are returned again to the mire o● which is much the same meerly to minding our thick clay God's Judgments th●n and his Mercies now are thrown away upon us And then seeing nothing will finally mend us what can we expect but utter excision and a dreadful portion of wrath to come I will be so candid as to profess I hope better things touching many and endeavour better touching all But my heart bleeds to see not a few of us as vain and Luxurious as loose and licentious as giddy and negligent not only in ordinary conversation but even in the worship of God as ever we were I warn you of these things in my Sermons it may be some think too earnestly at least frequently I shall yet God blessing me not fail so to do one way or other as long as God thinks fit to continue me in a capacity This present warning perhaps some of you will re●d who may not have the opportunity or will not come to hear me I beseech all of you to receive it in meekness cordially and without offence from him who does it really in the fear of God and to deliver both his own soul and yours in the great day of the Lord. We have seen enough if any thing can be enough within these two or three last years to take us off from flattering our selves or others either in open sin or in a lukewarm formal heartless profession of Religion For my own part if any one see me behaving my self contrary to such vows as those above-mentioned if any see me vain trifling away my time indulging riot Luxury or the like I will be so far from taking it amiss to be by any one Christianly minded or reproved of my forgetfulness of my self and of my vows that I will thank the person praise God for him yea and pray to God for him too who does it and I beseech you do none of you take this amiss from me whose duty more especially it is to speak these things to exhort and rebuke with all Authority Out of the bowels of Charity and with tender compassion to all your souls write I these things unto you And now I have begun to deal thus roundly and freely with you give me leave to add this Advertisement that perhaps It is highly Necessary many of us Reform farther than possibly our Particular vows may carry us It may be we did not or have not taken notice in our selves of all the sins by which we have contributed to the publick miseries I will not I do not 〈◊〉 say we have been more guilty than our neighbours in other Counties but this I may say we have suffer'd more than many and as much as most wherefore it becomes us narrowly to Examine into the measure and particulars of

our guilt Let us then each particularly as our sufferings have been put the question to our consciences has it not been for such and such our sins that we have suffer'd thus and thus that God of late shook us out of the land which we accounted he had given us for an inheritance that our goods were spoiled or torn away before our faces our houses burnt our goodly plantations destroyed that our Wives have been desolate and our Children seeking their bread amongst strangers that many of our brethren have died for want of food that our very own servants have born rule over us and to use Holy Job's words we have been a derision to those whose fathers we would have disdained Job XXX 1. to have set with the dogs of our flock Has it not been for our manifold transgressions and mighty sins that all these Amos V. 22. evils have fallen upon us I in the name of God require all persons to examine their own consciences and in the fear of God as they find things to repent and reform I will only further add a few Earnest but plain and necessary requests unto you which if I can but prevail for I shall not doubt but a true and general amendment in us will follow and God's mercies attend us The First is that you would each one of you use daily to pray in secret though such secret Prayers should be the shorter and Remember always to put your hearts into your prayers Secret prayers you may truly account your own As to prayers with the Family or the Church the Authority of the chief of the Family or the custom of the Countrey puts you upon them and brings you to them but secret prayers come only from within your selves from conscience that is from a sense of duty and from the fear or love of God in you and so as said are purely your own and will most surely speed if sincere Wherefore omit not any day the practice of this kind of prayer Secondly I beseech further That all such who have Families would set up the daily worsh●p of God in their Families Those of the poorer and meaner sort who cannot use longer prayers might easily learn the Confession Almighty and most merciful Father we have Erred c. one of the Collects for morning O Lord our heavenly Father almighty and everlasting God who hast c. one for the Evening Lighten our darkness and then use the Lord's Prayer and The Grace of our Lord Iesus Christ making all their Family to kneel and with Reverence join Even this would be of a wholsome effect Others of greater leisure and ability both may and ought to use more and I presume want not help at hand Besides this seeing there are daily publick prayers in two Churches of the Town at least what would it be for every sufficient Housekeeper if not to come often themselves yet to send daily at least one or two of the Family to pray there for all the rest The sense of Religion would hereby grow amongst us and the face of it daily look brighter Thirdly On what ever daies or times you are forgetful remiss or negligent suffer not the Lord's-day evening to pass without some solemn prayers in the Family And then call to account the younger sort and servants how they have spent the Lord's-day Where they have been at Church or what they remember and make some of them that are are able to read in the Holy Bible or any other good Books in the hearing of the rest All professions of Christians condemn and will rise up in judgment against the generality of those who call themselves Church of England men for neglect of prayers in the Family and calling their Family to account Fourthly Both your selves in person observe and see that your Families in some tolerable manner of strictness observe the lord's-Lord's-Day Nothing more promotes the power of Godliness and keeps up the face of Religion amongst us than such observation Fiftly as one branch hereof send your servants and younger people to Church and Catechism in the afternoon on the Lord's days Business is pretended for many servants in the morning Afternoon there can be little And Catechising is the proper preaching for such people I wish it could be truly said the Elder sort of the Commonalty did not want it Lastly Of all sins both your selve beware of and upon all occasions as you hear it manifest your abhorrence of that common but odious useless and unreasonable sin of Common Swearing Warn your children and servants first and then if after guilty chastise them for it and if servants will not reform it turn them away Keep up the Reverence of God's name and this will be a means to promote in your own and others hearts his fear Now the good God make you perfect in every good work deliver you from evil one and preserve you to his Heavenly Kingdom This I daily on my knees more than once or twice commonly pray for you And do you sometimes at the least when you read this pray the same for Your unworthy but affection at and Faithful Pastour E. Corke Rosse Bishop's-Court Corke Novemb. 27. 1691. For the better minding some of us of particular Vows here follows the Form of Prayer which was made and used when the City being taken our Churches were restored to us O God of all Wisdom Power who alone reignest over all that is or is called Great in Heaven or in Earth Mighty in Counsel Wonderful in Working Terrible in Praises We vile sinners less than the least of thy Mercies humbly adore and bless thee for all that Grace Truth and Faithfulness which Thou hast shewn to us thy Unworthy servants and to the Rest of our Numbers who cannot here now present themselves Thou art Righteous in all thy Waies Holy and Gracious in all thy Works Thou executest Righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed and Thou hast magnified thy Mercy above all thy Name We have cried unto thee O Lord in our Distress and Thou hast heard us Thou hast delivered us from under the power of our Cruel Enemies Thou hast redeemed our Life from Destruction and crowned us with loving kindness and tender mercies Thou hast again set our feet in a large room and restored us to our Liberty to worship thee according to thy Word and Ordinance in publick Assemblies Note The Protestants were often imprisoned in the Churches For our sins O Lord thou madest thine House our Prison and in thy tender mercy thou hast now made our Prison the Place of our Praises We will therefore bless thee as long as we live We will lift up our hands in thy name and Our Hearts in thy Love We will daily pay our vows to thee the God of our salvation and by thy Grace with Life and conversation with Heart and soul and all that is within us strive to make thy praise glorious Blessing and Glory

and Wisdom and Thanksgiving and Honour and Power and Might be unto our God and unto the Lamb for Ever Ever Amen Though it be best that in secret Prayer each use his own words yet for the help of those who are less Exercised Here are two short Prayers a small charge to memory A short Morning Prayer in secret O God my Health my Life my Happiness and Portion for ever I most humbly adore and worship thine unseen but all-seeing Majesty blessing thee that thy good hand has raised me this morning again to cast my self at thy footstool Thou O Lord art Gracious and Holy and Blessed but I am vile and abominable and deserve to be most miserable as being very corrupt by nature and having a heart further depraved by a multitude of sins most truly mine own more in number than I can rec●unt and of more grievous guilt than I am able to set forth yet what is my only support not exceeding thy mercy in Christ Jesus my Saviour In his name I come unto thee and forasmuch as I desire to turn from all my sins both at present and for the future and to go mourning all my days for what I cannot now recall I most earnestly beseech thy pardon through my Saviour's bloud and thy Spirit both to purge out of my heart all the old leaven of naughtiness and to replenish it with the Belief Love and Fear of thee my God Grant O Lord I may ever cleave unto thee and follow hard after thee and in the end obtain everlasting life with thee Keep me this day watchful against mine iniquities the sins which easily beset me Lead me in the way that is good Defend me from all Evil and supply all my wants as thou seest best for me Hear me also for thy Holy Church Universal for Ours in Particular for our Gracious King and Queen for all in Authority under them for all the Ministers of thy Church for the whole body of the People for my Friends and Benefactors for my Relations and Kindred * Here you mention a●y of your nearest relations or friends especially for c. for all who are distressed † Here any who have desired your Prayers O thou great All-sufficient God be thou a shield and succour to us all And in the Unity of thy Church guide me and all thine by thy Counsel until thou shalt bring us to thy Glory through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Our Father c. A Short Prayer for Evening in secret O Father of Lights with whom is no Darkness from whom nothing is hid and who never slumberest nor sleepest I frail creature to whose support thou hast made sleep necessary being now about to go to my rest humbly fall down before thee and with soul body worshipping thee desire to close this day with thee and in thy peace and fear Thy good hand has carried me through the business and Dangers of the day and blessed be thy Holy name thy Fatherly care and Loving kindness for it Thou O Lord art never wanting unto me but I am ever wanting to thy Grace and my self How many have been this Here you ought to make particular r●flexions and may mention any miscarriage day the errors of my ways ** How have I come short of my duty In ** yea done contrary to it I do O God from my soul bewail all Now look graciously I beseech thee upon me in thy Son Christ Jesus In him O Lord hear O Lord forgive and cause thy face to shine upon thy servant Lay me to rest sprinkled with the bloud of my Saviour in Holy peace and in the comfortable hopes of a Blessed Resurrection at the last day Make my sleep this night sweet and pure and when I awake let me be still with thee Ravish my soul with thy love and enlarge my heart in longing desires after thee and serious delight in the thoughts of thee and the blessed company of Heaven Prepare me for my long sleep and keep me ever watchful every fit and willing to leave this world and desirous to be with thee Gather together O Lord all thy Church and till the fulness thereof shall be come in Purge quiet and defend all parts of it Let thine Eyes be ever open for good on this part of it into which thou hast hast cast thy servant and especially on them who under thee are the Defenders of it our Gracious King and Queen Keep Guide and Govern them and all who in Church or State Govern under them Make all thy Ministers able faithful and succesful Bless and reward all my Friends Pardon and turn mine Enemies Help the Helpless Receive into thy Protection this night me and all my Relations c. * Preserve us all Good Lord to thy Heavenly Kingdom through Jesus Christ our Saviour Amen Our Father which c. A SERMON Preached at WHITE-HALL Before the QUEEN On The Fourth Sunday in Lent March 22. 1690. REFLECTING On the late Sufferings and Deliverance of the Protestants in the City and County of CORKE Published for the sake of those concerned in it who could not hear it yet may edify by it By EDWARD Lord Bishop of CORKE and ROSSE CORK Printed by John Brent for David Jones Bookseller and are to be sold at his Shop in Cork 1691. A SERMON c. The Text. Psalm Lxxvi 10. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain THE most both of ancient and modern Authorities date this Psalm in good Hezekiah's days at least on the occasion of that nights deliverance when the Angel of the Lord fell in upon the Assyrian Camp and slew of them one hundred and fourscore and five thousand When with such a mighty hand and out-stretched arm God rescued his people some from slavery some from death all from the power and dread of their enemies then was it eminently that in Judah was God known and his name was great in Israel Then did it appear more gloriously that in Salem was his tab●rnacle and his dwelling place in Sion For there brake he the arrows of the bow the shield and the sword and the battel v. 1 2 3. Then the stout-h●arted w●re spoy●●d they slept their sleep the sleep of nature and of death together and non●●f the men of might found their hands v 5 Then did God arise to judgment to save all the meek of the earth v. 9. Or rather as the original no less naturally bears to save all the poor of the land Which Salvation the sacred Author having thus loftily and sweetly sung adds for a close as in an Ecstatick Acclamation this Divine Aphorism verified not only by that single instance but by the experience of all ages Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain I know a certain Church allows not Hallelujahs in Lent but the redeemed of the Lord whom he hath delivered from the hand of the