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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47047	A sermon of antichrist preached at Christ-Church, Dublin, Novemb. 12, 1676 / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Henry, Lord Bishop of Meath.	Jones, Henry, 1605-1682.	1679 (1679)	Wing J950; ESTC R1645	32,988	47

A SERMON OF ANTICHRIST Preached at Christ-Church DUBLIN Novemb. 12. 1676. By the Right Reverend Father in God HENRY Lord Bishop of MEATH The Second Edition Revised and corrected by his own hand Reprinted at LONDON for Nathaniel Ponder at the Peacock in the Poultry 1679. Imprimatur Jan. 13. 1676. Ja. Armachanus March 4. 1679. H. London To His Excellency ARTHUR Earl of ESSEX Viscount Malden Baron Capel of Hadham Lord Lieutenant General and General Governour of His Majesties Kingdom of Ireland Lord Lieutenant of the County of Hartford and one of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council of both Kingdoms Most Honourable How much Ireland happy in your Government is above all other Nations in Europe influenced by the power of Rome is to Your Excellency well known as to the world and by themselves also acknowledged and gloried in But unhappy is it in being thereby and by Romish Emissaries of malevolent and factious principles promoting other interesses carried on fatally to the disturbance of the peace of the Kingdom Of this we have had Memorials of former Ages some of them fresh and bleeding nor are we even now without jealousies of what may yet be were there opportunity for it This is not to be ascribed to the stars or clime or nature of the people who have had of old the character justly of a people peaceable harmless affable to strangers and in themselves and to all pious and good So was it while the Religion professed by their Forefathers was according to the primitive faith of purer times of the Church although not then without some soil And thus find we it even now in those of the Nation who are of reformed and purer principles But being in after times corrupted in Doctrine and Discipline and that the now Religion of the Irish is quite another thing from that of their forefathers of whom yet they boast themselves Children both as to faith and blood we now find the Change great as in Religion so in disposition and manners On which we collect that the grounds of our peace from those must not be Extirpation but Reformation by removing those their false Teachers who mis-inform and mis-lead the Nation and our withal instructing the people in the waies of peace and truth As to the latter I have observed no people more desirous than are these to hear and to be instructed nor any better being so educated In which I cannot but mention and recommend as a president to others the zeal of a pious and learned Prelate the present Archbishop of Cashel who has set himself on that work industriously by instructing the Irish in their own language and hath already gathered the comfortable fruits of his godly labours drawing in and retaining many of the Nation firm in the faith the number also of such encreasing The means for that in former times and in some of our own memories was the translating and Printing our English Lyturgy and the New Testament into the Irish tongue that testifying our care of their salvation and giving them thereby to understand in their own language the truth we profess and teach contrary to the mis-information of others concerning us And to this purpose that learned Prelate Doctor Bedell late Bishop of Kilmore happy in his Zeal and labours that way to that of the New Testament and Common-Prayer before translated and Printed in the Irish tongue did add the Translation into Irish of the Old Testament also with David's Psalms in meter This I have in my hands in the manuscript and wish it were for such a publick good printed and published In the mean time to give some stop if it might be to the Current of Popery I conceived in might be convenient and necessary that it be known and declared to this mis-lead people as to others who that is whom they so follow that he is that very Antichrist by whom they may be carried away by that deluge of Apostacy into perdition wherby these may by grace be brought to consider their waies This is that which is in the following Treasise intended and is I hope to some evidenced which appearing other points and erroneous Doctrines of Popery will fall depending on that the principal Of this in my late preaching it I had the honour of your Excellencies being then an hearer and being prevailed with after for publishing it I thought it fittest for your Lordships Patronage in whose hands is the Government of that people for whom this is particularly designed it was a confident presumption in him who under the letters I. S. it may be far from his name did offer to your Patronage an invective against that Church of which you are The Church of England your Mother as not being the Church of Christ nor any part of it which had its full confutation by a learned piece Doctor Andrew Sall I hope the contrary may find better acceptance from your Excellency this shewing that the Church of Rome of which J. S. shews himself to be is ANTICHRISTIAN and communion there to be unto some dangerous and damnable to others It is in this my Comfort which was St. Paul's speaking before King Agrippa that I speak to one who knoweth these things And from whom I am perswaded none of these things are hidden Acts 26.3.26 For your Excellency is not a favourer only of Learning but you your self also learned eminently and particularly versed in Church-Antiquities on which most of that here spoken is depending Which your affection to Learning appears in your large collection of Books with which that your rich and compleat Library in England is stored The same of which hath crossed the Seas hither as elsewhere abroad There may the learned find knowledge in variety beside what concerns Records both of England and Ireland such as are not otherwhere where unto which recourse may be had as to a VATICAN And as to Ireland considering the few years of your Government over us I dare confidently aver that none so as your Lordship knoweth so much of the Kingdom People Manners and several Interesses there and understands better the Measures for governing answerably and such a person so knowing this Kingdom requires In your Excellency shines the Heroick Vertue and Courage of that renowned Martyr for King and Country your illustrious Father and that well tempered with your own personal Affability taking with and obliging all yet to each with a becoming distance of state and place so as none to presume on more than just favour in Judgment Justice being to all and any without difference dispensed Tros Tyriusve tibi nullo discrimine habetur This is now testified in the present Connaght Court of Claymes under your Government the Irish in that Province having therein their help as had before the other parts of the Kingdom their distribution of Lands in former Courts of like nature In which those of Connaght having been post-poned they were given over as remediless until by his