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A45691	Threni Hybernici: or, Ireland sympathising with England and Scotland, in a sad lamentation for the loss of their Josiah Represented in a sermon at Christ-Church in Dublin before His Excellency the Lord Deputy, with divers of the nobility, gentry, and commonality there assembled, to celebrate a funerall solemnity upon the death of the late Lord Protector. By Dr. Harrison, chief chaplain to his said Excellency.	Harrison, Thomas, 1619-1682.	1659 (1659)	Wing H916A; ESTC R221279	14,781	29

it for us then will he encrease us with men like a flock we shall then live and not die neither shall our men be few Fourthly When there 's a quiet resignation of our selves and our affairs to the Lord not limiting him but leaving him to his liberty to take away what Instruments he pleaseth and use what Instruments he pleaseth He will be Master over the Sons of men and when we are willing he should be so all things then shall work together for our good When we can choose God and let him choose all the rest David could not miscarry when his heart was once wrought over to this resignment 2 Sam. 15.25 26. Lastly When the Spirit of Faith is up in our hearts when through the discoveries of his Grace in Jesus Christ we are enabled still to trust in him hang on him expect good from him so that he cannot shake us off Generous Spirits scorn to fail those that depend on them poor sinfull Creatures have no other way to engage the great God to stand their Friend but by this dependance And saith the Prophet Isaiah Chap. 26.3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is staid on thee because he trusteth in thee When an Hawk pursued a Sparrow so close that it flew into Xenocrates his Bosome Non oportet supplicem prodere was his word and shall God give up his Turtle that flies into his Bosome pursued by Birds of Prey No he will never do it Psal 74.19 20. Now what hopes have yee Christians what expectations Can yee wait upon the Lord that hideth his Face from the house of Jacob can yee resolve to look for him Isa 8.17 Can yee believe for these poor Nations these wounded wofully wounded Nations to have slight thoughts of this Wound is the way never to be healed But what grounds of Faith or hope can you shew us to fix our feet upon at such a time as this Suppose I could shew yee none yet 't is a duty in the sincere people of God with their Father Abraham even against hope to believe in hope and to give Glory to God in believing Rom. 4.18.20 But yet God hath not left us without visible grounds to support our sinking expectations concerning these Nations For first our grand Enemies have had all the advantages against us they could wish for and yet have not prevailed all Campanella's projects have been accomplished Monarchy turned into a Free-state out of which they hoped to fish some notable Advantages The Dutch engaged in a War against the English to weaken both these States in their Shipping wherein they were most powerfull and formidable A Rebellion in Ireland an horrid one as that Popeling Polititian could have wished Philosophy mingled with our Divinity and what not and yet the Spaniards Universall Monarchy not effected Our English Roses not yet blasted not yet over-topped by the Lillies of France nor our British Crosses become Perches to the Austrian Eagles As if God had said from Heaven You shall have fair play all that yee can propound to your selves and yet come short of your Reckoning This speaks as if God had no mind to cast us away to abandon and give us up as a Prey to the Teeth of our Adversaries Let us bless the Lord for this and still believe on him Our Soul is escaped as a Bird out of the Snare of the Fowlers the Snare is broken and we are escaped Our help is in the Name of the Lord who made Heaven and Earth Psal 124.7 8. Surely when God thus encamps about his House 't is a signe that no Oppressour shall pass through them any more if they fall not off from Him Zech. 9.8 Secondly Are we not a People redeemed with so high an hand and such an out-stretched Arme as never People was since the dayes of Israel And hath the Lord been working so many Miracles of Mercy for so many yeares together and will he now undo us and all his own great Works together What will he do unto his great Name What will the Nations say It was not he it was a chance that hapned to them What will his and our Enemies say and do There is a stupendious expression in Deut. 32.26 27. I said that I would scatter them into Corners I would make the Remembrance of them to cease from among men I would pay them I would smock them they have deserved it at my hands were it not that I feared the wrath of the Enemy least their Adversaries should behave themselves strangly and least they should say Our hand is high the Lord hath not done all this Can the great God feare any thing Yes God himself tells us that he feares on the behalf of his poor People that desire to feare his Name and what need they to feare Enemies that have a God to feare for them Onely let us Sanctifie him in our hearts and let him be our feare and our dread and we need feare nothing else Thirdly What Spot of Earth to the praise of Free-grace be it spoken not to boast of our selves carnally What Spot of Ground in the World beares so many reall Saints upon it as our Island and some sprinklings here also that cry Day and Night unto him Souls sealed and marked in the Forehead not to be touched by the Destroyer Might Sodome have stood if there had been but ten righteous Persons there and shall not these Nations escape who have yet so many thousands to stand in the Gap Are not the holy Seed the Sap and Substance of our Robur Anglicanum our English Oke as an Oke whose Substance is in it when it casteth its Leaves The holy Seed shall be the Substance thereof Isa 6.13 Thus saith the Lord As the new Wine is found in the Cluster and one saith destroy it not for a Blessing is in it so will I do for my Servants sake that I may not destroy them all Isa 65.8 And surely we have Governours who say in their heart The Inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be our strength in the Lord of Hosts their God Zech. 12.5 Fourthly After all the Wind-falls in Gods Orchard so many top-heavy tall Okes and Cedars laid along those that are Trees of Righteousness indeed and kept their standing are more deeply rooted by all these shakings Professours were never so sober since the times of Persecution never so in love with old Truths they see plainly the pretended new light was an Ignis fatuus that misled poor benighted Souls yea many that erred come now to understanding and they that murmured are better instructed according to that sweet Promise Isa 29.24 We shall not therefore be ashamed of our hope neither shall our faces wax pale For as the prevailing of the Spirit of Error was the Herald of Misery so is the returning of a Spirit of Sobriety the welcome Harbinger of Mercy Fifthly So many hopefull young men coming on to the Ministry which is the Observation of our Brethren in England

word of the Lord came unto him in the thirteenth year of Josiah in the time of Reformation mark that and then hear how the Lord chargeth them Chap. 3.10 They turned not unto me with their whole heart but feignedly saith the Lord they made a shew and talked and took the Covenant but they would not stand to it they had no heart to a Reformation but hankered still after their former evils 'T was time now to rack them from off their Lees to empty them from Vessell to Vessell to turn them out of Jerusalem the Vision of Peace into Babylon whose very Name speaks Confusion The Lord help us to see our Faces in this Glass I appeal to your Consciences how much of our State and Story is told over in these particulars And yet if there be any hope in our Israel concerning this thing the last Observation must help us to it and it is this Obs 3. The sincere people of God take up a wosull Mourning not so much for the fall of their Crown as for their sins that caused it they point the finger at this they place the Wo upon this Wo unto us that we have sinned Thus Daniel in the 9. of his Book complains not of misery save only of the Desolation of the Sanctuary but of sin ver 5 6. We have sinned and committed Iniquity and have done wickedly and have rebelled even by departing from thy Precepts and from thy Judgments Neither have we hearkned unto thy Servants the Prophets which spake in thy Name to our Kings our Princes and our Fathers and to all the people of the Land This pierced his heart in the midst of all his personall Preferment So was it with good Nehemiah Chap. 1.6 7. Let thine Ear now be attentive and thine Eyes open that thou mayst hear the Prayer of thy Servant which I prayed before thee now day and night for the Children of Israel thy Servants and confess the sins of the Children of Israel which we have sinned against thee both I and my Fathers house have sinned We have dealt very corruptly against thee and have not kept thy Commandments nor the Statutes nor the Judgments which thou commandedst thy Servant Moses Sin sin that lay more heavy upon the hearts of these good men then all their sufferings And its clear it must be so First from the nature of sincere repentance which is never to be so affected with grief lying on our spirits as for our grieving the spirit of God Zech. 12.10 They shall mourn for him and be in bitterness for him and so it was Acts 2.27 When they heard this that they had crucified the Lord of Life and Glory this went to their hearts and this the Prophet Isaiah bewails that they rebelled against one who had been so tender so indulgent and compassionate toward them Isa 63.9.10 In all their affliction he was afflicted and the Angel of his presence saved them in his love and in his pity he redeemed them and he bare them and carryed them all the daies of old But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit Therefore he was turned to be their Enemy nnd he fought against them So David Psal 51.3 4. Secondly When ever God intends good to a person or a People he leads forth their Spirits this way makes the stream of their sorrows run forth in this Channel for this is the principall if not the only way to redress and remove their Calamities felt or feared when Sinners mourn for sin as sin then God pardons sin and when God pardons Iniquity he heals Infirmity Psal 103.3 If this then be our present posture though we are made weak by such a loss yet he will strengthen us and give us Healers that 's the Magistrates Charity Isa 3.7 yea this ruine shall be under his own hand and this is the right course to lodge it there Now briefly to put all these truths together to Use Use Doth not the Lord call his people in these Nations to a serious and sensible apprehension of such a stroke May I not say to the Common-wealth of England as this Prophet did to the Common-wealth of Israel Lament 2.13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee what thing shall I liken to thee O daughter of Jerusalem what shall I equall to thee that I may comfort thee O Virgin Daughter of Zion for thy breach is great like the Sea who can heal thee Our Bank is now broken down who can repair it who can heal it that can he alone who made both the Bank and the Breach Who at first gave a decree to the Sea and shut it up as with Doors and Bars saying Hitherto shalt thou go and no further and here shall thy proud Waves stay He can keep the Sea from breaking in upon us at such a time as this and repair our Bank and Bulwark again But will he do it That cannot I tell but I can tell you of severall Symptomes and Indications of approaching mercy even in times of greatest Calamity do you look if you can find them upon your own Spirits and they are these First When a Person or People are troubled more for sin then for suffering either incumbent or approaching When they look on sin as the greatest the only evill when they mostly bewaile that that 's a sure sign of escaping Ezek. 7.16 But they that escape of them shall escape and shall be on the Mountains as Doves of the Valleys all of them mourning every one for his Iniquity Now is the Voyce of this Turtle heard in our Land at this day When sin sits heavy suffering sits light said Mr. Greneham And God will make it so to be indeed not to Faith only but to Sence also Secondly When we are layd low in the sight and sence of this vileness judging our selves worthy of the greatest punishment unworthy of the least refreshment when we see cause to submit in case of Reprobation much more in case of Affliction when we are thus abject and cast down it is the custome of our gracious God and from thence his Character to be a Comforter of such 2 Cor. 7.6 God that comforteth those that are cast down When Jacob was in his own Eyes not worthy of the least of all Gods mercies then he escapes all the misery so nigh unto him and so much dreaded by him the thing that he feared came not upon him Gen 32.10 c. Thirdly When the Spirit of Prayer is kept warme in our hearts or rather our hearts kept warm by the Spirit of Prayer for our selves and for others that 's a token for good unto us when Job prayed for his Friends then God turned his Captivity Job 42.10 How do yee feel your hearts Christian frozen or flaming cold or burning within you can you pray for your Rulers for the Publick for your selves and your Posterities after you Doth the House of Israel enquire of the Lord for this thing Ezek. 36.37 then will he do