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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56454	Nehemiah, or, The excellent governour being a discourse delivered at the cathedrall of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, Aug. 1669, before the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Ossory ... / by J.P. ...	Parry, John, d. 1677.	1670 (1670)	Wing P558; ESTC R33024	13,453	42

NEHEMIAH OR THE EXCELLENT GOVERNOVR BEING A Discourse delivered at the Cathedrall of the Holy TRINITY Dublin Aug. 1669. Before the Right Honourable THOMAS Earle of OSSORY Then Lord Deputy of Ireland BY J. P. D. D. and Dean of the said Church OXFORD Printed by H. Hall Printer to the Vniversity for Ric. Davis An. Dom. 1670. Imprimatur P. MEWS Vicecan OXON Jan. 2. 1669 70. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE AND TRULY NOBLE THOMAS Earle of OSSORY late Lord Deputy of Ireland and eldest Son to the Illustrious Prince JAMES Duke of ORMOND His Grace c. My Lord THis Sermon which not long since had the honour of Your Lordship's eare I have now made bold to present more publickly to Your Lordship's eye being ambitious to let the world see that those great obligations of Duty and Honour which the Author owes Your Lordship and illustrious Familie are a part of my debt also not only as related to Him and a Father before Him eminent by your Favours but also in the honour of being knowne to your Lordship and most Noble Family and also by many Favours perticularly obliged to subscribe my selfe with all gratitude and zeale My Lord Your Lordship 's Most Humble and Devoted servant B.P. NEHEMIAH c. 13. v. 14. Remember me O God concerning this and wipe not out the good deeds which I have done for the house of my God and the offices thereof IN the midst of Judgment God usually remembers Mercy and a Nation once chosen by Him may in its lowest ebb if there be any hopes of amendment find a reserve of kindnesse Though the Israelites for their Rebellion and impenitency be overwhelmed by all the miseries of War at home and oft times carried Captive to a strange land abroad yet God doth not utterly forget them in their bondage The Jewes in their lowest estate are owned by God who raiseth some of their own Nation still to be in favour with the Conqueror he is pleased still to raise up some of their owne Nation to be in favour with the Conquerours whose endeavours doe much lighten though not wholy take off their Chaines Daniel with Nebucadnezar Thus whilst that enthralled Nation was groaneing under Nebucadnezar a wise Daniel is promoted who by his interest in that great King in part dryes up their teares When in the time of Assuerus the subtilty of Haman brought them neare their last gaspe a fatall decree being sent out for their totall massacre God then advances Mordecai and Hester whose diligence recalls that hasty sentence and not onely saves the distressed Jewes from butchery but hangs the author of it upon that gibbet which he prepared for another Thus providence instilled into Cyrus that great Prince a very particular kindness unto the whole Nation Cyrus alwayes heed them who openly acknowledges The Lord God of heaven hath charged me to build him an house at Ierusalem Esra 1.2 Thus as that Captive people were in the time of Artaxerxes weeping by the waters of Babylon Nehemiah with Artaxerxes whilst their Harps were hung upon the melancholy willowes and a deluge made in that river by their owne tears God is then pleased to pity their heaviness and to give them hopes of one song more in Sion by the promotion of a generous Nehemiah into great favour with that Prince whose noble temper makes use of his interest for the publique advantage of his owne Nation For whilst Nehemiah as we find it recorded is upon his attendance at Court His publique spirit Chapt. 1. he receives sad newes from Ierusalem the little scattered remnant there was preyed upon by insulting enemies the wall broken downe and the gates burnt up This strikes deepe into the publick spirit of Nehemiah and drownes him in mourning and tears and the trouble of his hart became visible in the disorders of his countenance whilst he attends as a Cup-bearer the King perceives that unusuall sadness and when upon strict inquiry he knowes the reason of it from himselfe His Commission to be Governour over Judea chap. 2. he thinks fitt to send him with a Commission as his Lievtenant to governe that people with whom he was best acquainted and for whom he had soe tender a respect The King onely desires him not to stay long away for he cannot be much without him he loves his person and stands in need of his advice Nehemiah's Commission is no sooner sealed but he begins his Journey and being arrived at Jerusalem he vigorously acts in that Sphere he was placed in and notwithstanding all attempts of Enemies abroad and the disorders of intangled interests at home he governes like himselfe as a prudent unbyased Deputy and a true Patriot of the reall concernes of his Country and at length having much settled that distracted Land his Master cannot any longer be without his company and therefore having finished all that man could perform he is now upon the close of his Government and in my Text we find him upon his knees in a modest reflection upon what he had done and a passionate entreaty for somewhat which he desired in the words I have read unto you His Prayer upon the close of his Government Remember me O my God concerning this and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the House of my God and for the Offices thereof Thus you may see my Text is the prayer of a chief Governor or Deputy under the great King Artaxerxes Wherein is 1. somewhat mentioned by Nehemiah over the Land of Iudea wherein we may find these particulars 1. somewhat particularly mentioned and represented by Nehemiah 2. the Petitions requested from God 1. That which is mentioned is his good Deeds which he performed in his Government and these are interweaved with all the actions of his Authority and may be reduced unto these two heads 1. Acts of Iustice and love to the whole Nation in the settlement of their Civil Rights 2. His service to the Church to the house of God and to the offices thereof the one bespeaks his Piety to God the other his Iustice and Charity to man the first contains his diligence in Settling their temporal Interests and the last comprehends his industrious establishment of God's worship and Religion His good deeds to the whole Nation As for the first his Acts of Kindnesse to the whole Nation these may be viewed in these following particulars 1. In accepting of the Government in a dangerous time 1. His taking the Government upon him in troublesome dangerous calamitous times the afflictions of Ierusalem were heavy and the whole Nation lay in Poverty and Contempt their Purses as well as their Spirits so much exhausted as that Nehemiah could not expect to better his fortune or improve himself he knows the whole Province is in a flame the gates of the holy City burnt and the wall of it in the dust the neighbouring people testifie their enmity by their