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A40371 A sermon preached in Christ's-Church, Dublin, on the 23d. of October, 1698 being the anniversary thanksgiving for putting an end to the Irish Rebellion, which broke out on that day, 1641, before the House of Lords / by Nathanael Lord Bishop of Waterford and Lismore. Foy, Nathaniel, d. 1707. 1698 (1698) Wing F2046; ESTC R33792 19,692 32

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A SERMON Preached in Christ's-Church DUBLIN On the 23d of October 1698. Being the Anniversary Thanksgiving for putting an End to the IRISH REBELLION which broke out on that Day 1641. BEFORE THE House of Lords By NATHANAEL Lord Bishop of WATERFORD and LISMORE DVBLIN Printed by Andrew Crook Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty for Samuel Adey Bookbinder in Copper-Alley and are to be sold by the Booksellers of Dublin 1698. Monday the 24th of October 1698. By the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled Ordered ON Motion that the Lord Viscount Loftus of Ely the Lord Viscount Charlemont and the Lord Baron of Strabane do give the Thanks of this House to the Lord Bishop of Waterford for his Sermon Preached at Christ's-Church Yesterday being the Anniversary of the Three and Twentieth of October And that his Lordship be desired to Print his said Sermon Jo. Smyth Cler. Parliamentorum Acts Chap. 19 ver 28. And when they heard these Sayings they were full of Wrath and cryed out saying Great is Diana of the Ephesians THAT Ephesus was the Metropolis of the Lesser Asia and one of the most Celebrated Mart Towns of all the East seated on the Shore of the Archipelago renown'd for its Riches and Antiquity as having been founded as 't is said by many of the Ancients by the Amazons not long after the Trojan War but for nothing more Famous than the Worship of the Great Goddess DIANA with her Image which fell down from Jupiter as 't was Superstitiously believ'd and the Incredible Structure of her Temple as having from time to time been no less than Two hundred and twenty Years a Building at the general Charges of the whole Province and for that Reason call'd by Pliny Admiratio Graecae Magnificentiae The Wonder or Astonishment of the Greek Magnificence and ever reputed One of the Seaven Wonders of the World is unknown to none who are any thing conversant in Heathen Story To this City Proud and Insolent to the highest Degree Superstitious and Idolatrous and hugely addicted to the Study of Magical or Infernal Arts St. Paul in his Apostolical Travels about Fifty two Years after our Lord's Birth comes to Found or rather Establish a Christian Church The Rudiments of which seem to have been Imperfectly laid in the Chapter before And here he continues by the space of Two Years Baptizing Disputing and Working Miracles of all sorts not only when personally present but by Touching the Handkerchiefs or Aprons of such as were Sick or Possess'd so that the Diseases departed from them and the Evil Spirits went out of them Upon this certain Vagabond Jews Exorcists or Conjurers who had improv'd themselves in these Arts of Magick and Incantation whilst they were at Ephesus as being a City particularly under the Jurisdiction of the Devil perceiving how that no sooner St. Paul call'd upon the Name of the Lord Jesus but the Evil Spirits flew like Lightning from the Bodies of Demoniacks they thought to do the like and the Experiment being made by no less than seaven Sons of one SCeva a Jew not being willing it seems to trust themselves singly all Students of the Black Art in this Form of Words We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul Preacheth i. e. to depart The Evil Spirit answer'd and said Jesus we know and Paul we know but who are ye And the man in whom the Evil Spirit was leaped on them and overcame them and prevailed against them so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded So Remarkable an Occurrence as this could not but be soon Noised abroad in so Populous and Inquisitive a City and the event was answerable For Fear fell on all dwelling at Ephesus both Jews and Greeks and the Name of the Lord Jesus was magnified And many that believed came and confessed and shewed their deeds And in farther token of the reallity of their Conversion and utter Abhorrence of their former Life many of them who had practised these Magick Arts of their own accord brought their Books and burn'd them publickly which had they been sold would have yeilded no less than Fifty thousand pieces of Silver So mightily grew the Word of God and prevailed But Demetrius a crafty Trades-man and Master of the Corporation of Silver-Smiths who made Silver Shrines for Diana or little Temples with her Image in them and had all this time been a Spy on the Words and Actions of St. Paul finding that his Religion and Fortune were both at stake and would certainly be lost were not some timely stop put to his Preaching and Miracles he calls together the Workmen of like Occupation and in a Riotous Assembly for Trades-men are no proper Reformers he tells them There was one Paul who had not only at Ephesus but throughout all Asia perverted much People Broaching a most Unreasonable and Heretical Doctrine That they be no Gods which are made with Hands That the Divinity of the Great Goddess Diana had been Universally Acknowledg'd by all Mankind and that her Worship had been Establish'd upon the Universal Consent and Practice of all Nations whom not only all Asia but the World Worship'd But if what Paul said was true both the Temple and the Goddess would soon be despised and her Magnificence destroy'd This had he said no more must be acknowledg'd to have been a good sort of Metaphysical Argument but Demetrius knowing that Trades-mens heads lie not much that way was too wise to venture the Worship of his Goddess and along with it his All upon such a nice Speculation and therefore to make Sure work of it he first prepares the way by a right faithful Argument which he knew amongst such Auditors would never fail him Sirs Ye know that by this Craft we have our wealth which now is in danger to be set at nought And when they heard these sayings they were full of wrath and cryed out saying Great is Diana of the Ephesians the Uproar continuing about two hours the Beasts of Ephesus all that time bellowing nothing out but Great is Diana of the Ephesians Great is c. So that the Words are a perfect Inference from a heap of Arguments which went before Demetrius Argues stiffly for his Goddess the People repeat his Arguments and infer the Conclusion Doth Paul say they be no Gods which are made with hands and is the Ruine of our Goddess involv'd in this single Assertion Has her Divinity been Acknowledg'd and Ador'd by all Nations and by the Romans themselves receiv'd into the number of the Deae Majorum Gentium and is our whole Fraternity supported by her and do we and she fall together Why then Great is Diana of the Ephesians From the Words thus knit together we have these Three very Observables First That there is no Evidence of Sense Reason or in consequent thereto Scripture so plain and undoubted against which Education and Interest are not of force enough to byass and