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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64348	A sermon preach'd to the Protestants of Ireland in the city of London at St. Helens, Octob. 23, 1690 being the day appointed by act of Parliament in Ireland for an anniversary thanksgiving for the deliverence of the Protestants of that kingdom from the bloody massacre begun by the Irish papists on the 23d of October, 1641 / by Richard, Lord Bishop of Killala.	Tenison, Richard, 1640?-1705.	1691 (1691)	Wing T684; ESTC R9854	19,055	32

shall we expect to go free when we violate our Loyalty and Homage to Almighty God That were inconsistent with his Justice for being a just Judge he must Punish and give Sentence Amos 3.2 And he declares his Resolutions of punishing them this way Lev. 26.17 Ye shall be slain before your enemies they that hate you shall reign over you and ye shall flee when none pursue Many other such grievous Comminations are in his Word which were exactly fulfill'd God making them a Prey to their Enemies and scattering them up and down the Earth And still you may observe the Scripture says God gave them up God caused them to be smitten As in the Text you are told God delivered Judah into the hands of the Israelites which teacheth us two things First That without God's permission our Enemies can have no power over us 'T is when he forsakes when he delivers us up that our Enemies overcome us till he consent they cannot move till by sin we forfeit our Right to his Protection we need not fear which shews us our comfort and security and may arm us against dissidence and distrust for though they long to destroy us though they gnash at us with their Teeth and thirst after our Blood they cannot hurt us till God permit them He restrains them by his power and keeps us under the hollow of his hand Secondly It shews us that whatever Judgments happen to a People God sends or permits them Isa 45.7 Grot. Pisc 'T is he that makes peace and creates our evil our Calamities of War Pestilence or Famine as Interpreters render it And the Psalmist tells us Psal 46.8 'T is he that makes desolations in the earth And what Judgments fall upon us come from him as a just Retribution of our Wickedness He makes use of several Rods to Correct us now Foreign Invasions then Domestick Rebellions he suffers our Neighbours to rise up and destroy us and owns himself the Avenger of Iniquity Rom. 12.19 nor will he lose the Glory of the greatest Executions for Vengeance is his and he will repay it Such Acts are the outward signs and demonstrations of his Justice and Omniscience and our sighs and groans in Adversity contribute to his Honour as well as our Praises and Thanksgivings in Prosperity The shrieks and cries of the Damned in Hell bring Glory to him as well as the Anthems and Hallelujahs of the Saints in Heaven Gen. 18.25 for shall not the Judge of all the earth do right His Justice should be conspicuous to all the World and the most punitive effects thereof are for his Honour and tend to our benefit and advantage They make us acknowledge his Power and fear his Wrath and own with the Psalmist that there is a God which judgeth in the earth Psal 58.11 They make us turn to him with Sorrow and Repentance with Reformation and Amendment Isa 26.9 And when his Judgments are in the earth we will learn Righteousness Nunquam Dei meminerint nisi dum in malis fuerint says Lactantius We seldom remember God as we ought but when his hand lies heavy upon us and presses us down sore so that for the vindication of his own Honour and for our good 't is necessary we should be punish'd and chastis'd 'T is true all his Corrections are not out of Anger some proceed from his Love and are sent as Antidotes to prevent sin and improve our Graces to draw us nearer to him and increase our dependance upon him to know him and our selves better to discern our Frailties and Weakness to wean our hearts from this vain and transitory World to give us a clear sight and sence of our Offences to make us Presidents of Courage and Constancy unto others and to manifest his own Glory in our Deliverance And such I hope are those which we now suffer And therefore beware how you censure those who groan under the sharpest Tryals and most grievous Calamities for in all Ages of the World the holiest Persons have gone through much Tribulation to the Kingdom of Heaven Not to mention the Sufferings of the Patriarchs and Prophets do but see what happened to the Disciples and Followers of the Holy Jesus Was not St. Matthew Martyr'd in Aethiopia St. Mark burnt St. Luke hanged and St. John thrown into a Cauldron of Oyl Was not St. Peter crucified and St. Paul beheaded And were not the rest put to various and cruel Deaths And it would grate your Ears and make your Hearts tremble to hear the Tortures of Christians in the Ten Persecutions They slew them in a rage that reached up to Heaven Severus ordered that none of them should be left alive in all his Territories And Nicephorus tells us we may as well count the Grains of Sand as the Names of all that were Martyred under the Inhumane Decius And in all Ages since the best Christians have undergone great Tryals and Afflictions So that you must be very cautious how you judge of the Sufferings of Kingdoms of Families and Individual Persons You must not think their Calamities are always sent for the Punishment of some grievous sin and that the greatest Sufferers are the greatest Offenders God having many other Ends and Reasons for visiting us with Afflictions and they are Marks and Tokens of his Love his Fatherly Care and Protection and of our Filiation and Adoption as well as of his Wrath and Displeasure Heb. 12.6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth every Son whom he receiveth But we must also know that Judgments do often proceed from his Wrath and are the just Punishments of sin and therefore in publick or private Calamities we should search and examine our own Hearts and see with Job why God contendeth with us and repent and bewail our sins and resolve upon uniform Obedience for the future We should give Glory to God and take shame and confusion of face to our selves and own our Sufferings to be far less then we deserve and say Psal 145.17 The Lord is righteous in all his ways and holy in all his works And let us never imagine they fall upon us by meer Accident Job 5.6 or Chance For affliction ariseth not out of the dust nor trouble out of the mire We cannot perish but by his knowledge consent or permission His Judgments are the just and usual effects and consequents of our sin and are generally sent either to punish us for it or to keep us from committing it And therefore in National or particular Judgments let us still look at that great Hand from whence they come and humble our selves under it and be dumb because God does it The Text tells you He delivered Judah into the Hands of their Enemies If he had not done so they could not have destroy'd them And it also gives you the Reason of it which is the second thing to be considered Secondly He was wroth with them Because he was angry with