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A65552	Pastoral admonitions directed by the Bishop of Cork to all under his charge ; whereunto is added A sermon reflecting on the late sufferings and deliverance of the Protestants in the said county and city, preached at White-Hall on the fourth Sunday in Lent, March 22, 1690.	Church of Ireland. Diocese of Cork and Ross. Bishop (1679-1699 : Wettenhall); Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1691 (1691)	Wing W1508; ESTC R38579	20,756	56

the remainder of whose story let us consider in a word He lost an army of one hundred fourscore and five thousand in one night and that by the stroke of an Angel by a dreadful pestilence perhaps as some like expressions in scripture seem to explain it and he was preserved no doubt to the same end to which such another was recovered from the like stroke namely that God might shew in him his power and that Exod. IX 16. his name might be d●clared throughout all the Earth His wrath should together otherwise praise God and in the end be restrain'd Immediately upon the loss of his army he fled out of Judea to his own Countrey and dwelt at Nineveh viz. the Metropolis of Assyria where he fell again to his old practice and in his wrath slew many of the Jewish Captives and as the manner of such Tyrants is would have exercised further rage upon the dead bodies of the Hereticks for no better undoubtedly he accounted them had not Tobit buried them privily so that they Tobit I. 18. could not be found when sought for by the King This his furious carier God stops but how And it came to pass as he was Isai XXXVII 38. worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword and they escaped into the land of Armenia and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead So may all thine Enemies perish O Lord and the wrath of Devils and incorrigible men be restrain'd I have thus as briefly as I could dispatched both parts of my Text. I crave leave to conclude by urging in a few words some such practice as this discourse is apt to perswade And First Inasmuch as the wrath of man does even here praise God namely by his providential over-ruling it and its Events Let us study and observe this his no less wondrous than gracious management of the world Let not so many instances of God's most Holy and Wise providence pass us without regard as daily do It is certainly one main part of pure Religion to attend and much meditate on the providence of God which is not less fruitful of wonders than his Creation And it is as much our interest as our duty to do so Whosoever is wise and will observe these things even they shall understand the loving Ps evil ult kindness of the Lord. Providence is a book legible to all even the illiterate if they will but think and in some sense too super-adding to scripture it self In the book of holy scripture indeed we read the goodness and grace of God to mankind in general In the book of providence his mercies to us in particular It deserves therefore to be read that is observed And in our observation of God's loving kindness to us and to his Church let us not forget particularly to note wherein as to our selves God makes the wrath of man to praise him wherein for us he has brought Good out of Evll. A sword that by the same stroke can wound and heal is wonderful indeed But such is the wrath of man when God takes it in hand and such perhaps most of us have found it if we would but duly reflect on what has befaln us I may fay were we careful to observe all we should certainly admire love and adore our God in the severest dealings we can meet with or have met with from men Secondly Inasmuch as the wrath of man shall praise God or be restrain'd let us constantly maintain a comfortable Affiance and Dependance on God in all conditions whatsoever and that whether as to the course of publick affairs or of our own private concerns Let us still trust God bear up in the worst junctures with courage and cheerfulness with faith and patience In well-doing committing all to him as to a wise Creator and no less wise and vigilant a Governour 1st As to publick affairs Let it content us that God governs the world It may perhaps seem unto us that he at least oftentimes uses but strange instruments to govern it withal such I may say as none can govern with but himself Stultitiâ hominum Deus regit mundum has been said by a wise man and the consideration thereof should humble haughty wisdom If that be doubtful 't is sure The wrath of man shall praise thee This is as proper to bring down proud wrath Folly and Fury are indeed strange expedients to govern by But when an all wise and almighty hand takes the folly and fury of man to task we need not fear the general management or issue Many clouds arise in the heavens and are dispell'd either by winds bred in their own bowels or we know not how or at another time peradventure descend in clam and gentle showers upon the parched earth a welcome refreshment to man and beast Many storms fall one while upon the vast Ocean another while on Forrests and howling Deserts still only where God directs them So is it in publick Dangers The same almighty hand has a thousand ways to dissipate them or divert them from his Church And he surely will if we prove capable of such mercy The wrath of man shall praise him and praise him it cannot except all things succeed to his glory and the good of the faithful either in this world or a better Wherefore be of good cheer as to the publick And 2. as to Our p●rvate concerns If in the course of Divine Providence there were anything perfectly accidental give me leave to say the Faithful have more chances for their private security than the circumstances of publick bodies admit The Church still as Israel in the wilderness has a large mixt multitude in it and though the present Jews impute to those numerous wicked In-mates more of their forefathers transgressions in that age than justly they may yet in our Israel we may reasonably hope the most provoking share of publick guilt does not arise from the sincere part of the Church that is from persons who serve their God in spirit and truth and who tremble at his word of whom only at present we speak These therefore may justly hope if the storm should fall here it may blow over them or they may find shelter They may apply to themselves such comforts as these Ps XXVII 5. In the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me he shall set me upon a rook Again Ps XCI 4. He shall cover thee with his feathers and under his wings shalt thou trust his truth shall be thy shield and buckler And perhaps many of us have found these things made good to us Isai XLIX 2. In the shadow of his hand hath he hid us However whether we have found it or no. 2 Chron. VI. 9. The eyes of the Lord run to and fro thorowout the whole Earth to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect towards him And those eyes purify as well as preserve cherish and provide succour for the frailties of the mind as well as of the outward man Let the consideration hereof therefore cheer us as to our own both Temporal and Spiritual concerns The wrath of man shall praise God either by our preservation or betterment or both Lastly inasmuch as all the praise which God gets by the wrath of men is generally Against their will and meerly forc'd by his almighty wisdom and power let not us who avow our selves servants and have the honour to be called the sons of the most high put our gracious Lord and Father to this force It is enough for Rebels to praise him by their wrath and against their will Sons should praise him out of choice with cheerful willing minds in a spirit of Divine Love Gratitude and Meekness Of Peace Sweetness and Charity Of Holiness Duty and study of all well-doing In a word God has been universally beneficent to us of these Nations beyond what we could possibly hope for Let not us repay him in ingratitude looseness and negligence Let our praises be to our power as Universal as his Beneficence beginning first In our hearts by an universal devotedness to our Duty and by all Diligence therein and particularly by what is most contrary to wrath universal Charity No man is thankful to God or praises him at all any otherwise than forcibly who indulges a wrathful bitter or uncharitable spirit towards any man living From our hearts let our praises proceed into Actions by grateful returns Doing good unto others and as far as we are able unto all Even as God has both been and done good unto us And if the praises of God be thus in our Hearts Actions they will be ever and anon in our Mouths too we shall even with our voices in some sort exalt the God of our mercies And may the Causes of God's praises ever continue to us all and particularly to Your Sacred Majesty for whom we poor Protestants of Ireland above all men must both pray and praise May the praises of God I say be ever in your Majesty's mouth and a two-edged sword in your hand Not so much to execute Vengeance as to Conquer And by Conquering to give Peace and together Laws for an happy Settlement and for reforming what is amiss in these distracted Churches and Kingdoms May all late and present wrath of men amongst us thus praise God and such remainders as will not may he restrain Amen Amen FINIS

Theatre of the world and of all ages shall be opened and the particular scenes of each Tragedy that from the beginning has been acting and acted in the several spots upon Earth shall be displaid then will it appear that All the Furies and Bravo's nay All the Sag●s too of the world have all along even in their bloudiest outrages as well as most composed consultations in their gravest as well as in their boldest enterprises and transactions busied themselves only like a company of blind madmen doing they knew not what sometimes pleasing sometimes tormenting themselves in the extravagant swinge of their own humours or lusts but in the mean whil● moving in a most regular though to them unseen course and method All order'd by the wisest counsel and over ●uled by the sweetest though Almighty hand Nothing in humane Action forc'd nothing unnatural as to God's part who will then appear let mens intrigues and plots have been what they could never to have been at a loss either for counsel power or instruments to work his own will but on the contrary so to have predisposed and connected all events that to his designs all have been directly subservient and cooperative however to humane eyes they have seemed to run counter Only with this difference some having comply'd with his grace have in the strength thereof served his purpose out of choice others having resisted his grace have notwithstanding their own malice served his purpose against their will The one therefore will be graciously rewarded the other justly punished but as to both the Event in all will appear to have praised him For where in his infinite wisdom he saw not good to order the wrath of man to his praise it will be manifest that the remainder of wrath he did restrain which is the second member of the verse and of which briefly The remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain CHEMOTH Wrath in the plural number seems to be put in opposition to CHAMATH the single wra●h of man in the former part of the verse to shew there is more wrath which God is to restrain than meerly that of man There is also more pride which needs alike restraint namely that of the first Lucifer who sinn'd and as is thought fell by aspiring to ascend and to be like the most High There are finally that I may add that beyond my Text other counsels also as well as other wrath and pride besides humane which God confounds There is a wisdom that descendeth not from above no nor grows on earth but is devillish Jam. III. 15. And both wrath pride and wisdom of Devils as well as men shall God restrain when he pleases not to turn them to his praise Let there then be Hellish plots yet our God shall confound them I am not ignorant there is another sense of the word which we render restrain viz. he shall gird himself whether with the remainder of the wraths of Enemies as with spoils when he has defeated what thereof he lists or with wrath of his own against his Enemies I may not stand to discuss I have thought fit to keep to our own translation Waving therefore these interpretations I shall only in two words consider How God restrains the remainder of wrath which he does not see fit shall praise him 1st He sometimes happily restrains it by changing perhaps throughly converting the angry or furious heart For even the hearts of Kings and much more of meaner personages are in the hands of the Lord and as rivers of water he turneth Prov. xxi 1. them whither he pleases He changes I say the angry heart either 1st By Abating its furies and inducing a calm and sweet temper Thus God restrain'd the remainder of Esau's wrath to his brother Jacob. Esau had said in his heart perhaps sworn for he was prophane enough to do so the days of mourning for my father are at hand then will I stay my brother Jacob. Gen. XXVII 14. And he came to meet his brother Jacob an unarm'd shepherd with wives and children and flocks he came to meet I say this his naked brother and four hundred men with him all no doubt in warlike array and he breathing his former fierce intentions But God sweetens him To pass by many little particulars of the story When they are in sight of one another God puts into Jacob's heart to bow himself to the ground seven times until he came near unto his brother Ch. XXXIII 3. 4. And Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him and they wept O that all quarrels between brethren that is at large between private Christians might thus end thus praise God! Or 2. Sometimes God of his infinite grace lays a train uses means to convert and turn to himself the hearts of his his servants enemies Thus it was with them who were sent by the spiteful Pharisees to apprehend our Lord Jesus not without some grains of malice undoubtedly of their own otherwise they would John VII never have gone on such an Errand Now God had so order'd it that at the moment these Officers found Jesus he was preaching in the temple and their curiosity moved them to attend and hear a little before they take him perhaps that they might catch whereof to accuse him But the effect of what they heard is their hearts are touched they are taken themselves they return to their principals Never man spake like this man May God daily more and more thus restrain wrath But we must remember in this sort God uses to restrain only the wrath of men and but of some men too for Devils are incorrigibly malicious and so are too many of their agents Both these therefore are not convertible Wherefore as to their wrath Secondly God more forcibly perhaps dreadfully restrains it by plain tying them up or destroying them As to tying up the Devil at God's pleasure besides the forementioned case of Job whom Satan could not touch until and no farther than God would permit the twentieth of the Revelations when we have stript it of all mystery or prophesy in it is a most positive and indefeasible proof v. 1. I saw an Angel come down from heaven having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand Here is as I may say all the circumstantiative pomp and deviseables for the fastest confinement A mighty Angel for an officer a great chain to bind Satan with a dungeon the bottomless pitt into which he is to be cast here in too he is to be shut then for the dungeon when shut there is a key and after all according to the manner of the Easterlings a seal to be set upon it and none can loose him save he that bound him Stricter restraint cannot be described Thus as to the wrath of the Devil And as to incorrigible men such an one proved Sennacherib the person so much concern'd in the subject of this Psalm