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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42655	Irelands advocate: or, a sermon preached at a publike fast held by authorie, July the 27. in behalfe of bleeding Ireland. By John Geree, pastour of Tewkesbury, in Glocester-Shire. Published by authoritie.	Geree, John, 1601?-1649.	1642 (1642)	Wing G596A; ESTC R223673	15,404	25

Irelands Advocate OR A SERMON PREACHED AT A PUBLIKE FAST HELD BY Authoritie July the 27. in behalfe of bleeding IRELAND BY John Geree Pastour of Tewkesbury in GLOCESTER-SHIRE 2 Chron. 19.11 Deale couragiously and the Lord shall be with the good Published by Authoritie Printed at Dublin and re-printed at London for William Bladen 1642. TO THE HONOVRABLE Sir John Temple Knight MASTER OF THE ROWLES and One of His Majesties most Honourable Privie COUNCELL SIR THis pious Advocate of ours like the good Samaritan at a dead lift stirred up by God to be so charitable doe I with the more humble boldnesse thus send abroad in your Honours Name that in so great a worke it may help to further Him who to my knowledge much honours it both in Your own Person and honoured good friends in England His own Worth makes him most welcome where ever he is knowne his sweet disposition and great gifts Here where he is a Stranger Your Honours Countenance will ingratiate him to all pious mindes and every where much advantage the Cause that he hath in hand Which I recommend to Gods Blessing together with Your Honours Zeal Praying for more Blessings thereon than to Your Honours many wayes much bounden Servant Joh. Harding Irelands Advocate OR A Sermon preached at a Fast held by Authority July 27. in behalf of bleeding Ireland IUDGES 5.23 Curse ye Meroz said the Angel of the Lord curse ye bitterly the Inhabitants thereof because they came not to the help of the Lord to the help of the Lord against the mighty THe speciall Occasion of this dayes solemne Assembly is for the People and Cause of God in Ireland Great Might is there raysed against Gods people and so against the Lord. They sue for help to Our dread Soveraign and Parliament Help is spirituall or temporall This latter is restrained to fewer the former belongs to All. Both have their seasons On this day we are assembled by the gracious Command of Authoritie to yeeld our Brethren spirituall help which that we may be earnest and hearty in what can be more moveing then this censure of the Holy Ghost against all that desert God and his Church in the times of grand Opposition Curse ye Meroz c. These words are part of Deborahs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Song of triumph for their victory over Sisera Wherein 1 Chief Glory is ascribed to God as the Author of all the good which they received which is amplified by the greatnes of their miseries before deliverance vers 2.8 2 Due thanks and praise is given to the instruments of this deliverance which is illustrated by their freenes they were all Voluntiers vers 9. c. 3 There 's an expostulation with the Tribes who did not put their helping hands to this work There 's an Action of unkindnesse as it were commenc'd against them And yet because they were not without excuse by reason of distance of place there 's no severe censure denounc'd against them vers 15.16 17. 4 There 's more sharp dealing with Meroz a City it seemes neare who had opportunitie and wanted onely heart to the work so there was either coldnesse or falsenesse and therefore their burthen was heavie as you heare Curse ye i.e. pronounce misery and mischief upon her from God saith the Angel of the Lord that is Barac say some All that are indued with the Spirit of God say others Or what if we understand here the Angell of the Covenant the Redeemer of his Church who appeared to Joshua with a drawn sword as the Churches Deliverer and Avenger Josh 5.13 14 15. whom ever we understand in particular it imports thus much in the generall That this was no ●arnall Curse flowing from any carnall spirit of revenge but dictated by the Spirit of God And as it was not carnall so neither was it rash for it is reiterated and aggravated Curse ye bitterly Let her undergoe the bitterest censure without remorse But what 's the Reason of this so great severitie Were the Merozites persecutors or abettors of the malignant partie No there 's no such intimation But they were not helpfull They went not forth they would be at no cost paines or danger to help the Lord. Why hath the Lord need of help or was the warre against him Answ The warre in as much as it was against the Lords people was against the Lord. And God as in an ordinary way he works by meanes may be sayd to need help that is fit instruments to serve his Providence to effect his pleasure His Church needs help and that is the Lords need And here againe is a rhetoricall repetition or musicall expolition to the help of the Lord against the mighty The Greatnes of the enemies that made help needfull its likely discouraged these faithlesse cowardly Merozites that they pul'd in their hornes as many now adayes doe being afraid to shew themselves in the Lords Causes against the mightie So then here you see 1. A Curse denounc'd 2. The injoyner of it which shewes the Purity and Validity of it The Angel of the Lord. 3. The iteration of it with aggravation Curse ye bitterly shewing the seriousnes and certainty of it 4. The Object Meroz and her inhabitants Vrbs Civitas as though Meroz should be made like Iericho desolated in regard of building and inhabitants unlesse we understand a Metonymie in the first 5. The Cause for not helping the Lord against the mighty I will not now insist upon all the points that this Text holds forth I will not stand to inlarge my self on this That the Churches enemies and battles and needs are the Lords Nor will I stay to show you that the enemies of God and his Church are many times mighty Though points neither unusefull nor impertinent would the time permit the handling of them But being it is now the latter end of the day I shall studie rather to be lively than long and therefore content my self with this one observation Not to yeeld aid to the Lord against the enemies of the Church is a most accursed Sin Doct. This omission exposeth to the severest judgements Iudg. 8.6 7. When Gideon had discomfited the Midianites and was in the pursuite of his victory he and his men waxed faint and he required help from the men of Succoth but they rejected him wherefore they were first threatned and after felt a most fearefull punishment being torne with thornes and bryars of the wildernesse vers 16. to teach them more to respect the Lord in his battles Into the same sin ranne the men of Penuel vers 8.9 And they received answerable misery vers 17. Iudges 20. When such folly was committed on the Levites Concubine and the Tribes were asse nbled to put away sinne from Israel by punishing the sinners which was to be done by Warre because the Benjamites would take upon them the protection of their brethren children of Beliall vers 12.13 14. The children of Israel then vowed a