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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65562	A sermon setting forth the duties of the Irish Protestants arising from the Irish Rebellion, 1641 and the Irish tyranny, 1688, &c. : preached ... October 23. 1692 / by Edward, Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross.	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1692 (1692)	Wing W1520; ESTC R22564	17,350	28

us They will yet have a Day for it and they are as confident of an Army from France as ever they were It vexes no doubt the considerative part of their whole Nation that they should have been able from the Rebellion in Forty One to maintain a War of Twelve Years and yet that this much more an Universal Effort of their whole Nation to have shaken off for ever the English Yoak of which they had such assurance should be fruitlesly over in so few years They are therefore without question busie to retrieve our Confusions and that amongst themselves with their usual Confidence But let our Confidence be in God that raiseth the Dead from whence in a figure we have been raised Only let us remember trusting in God is as said a kind of conditionate Duty and we must take care first that we be duly qualified to trust in God for the Deliverance we desire Secondly that we do not contravene or in our Actions contradict such Trust For our being duly qualified to trust in God in any respect we have heard we must cleanse our Heaats repent of all known or even by us suspected Evils allowing our selves in neigher If our Hearts condemn us not then have we confidence towards God 1 John iii. 21. And particularly for qualifying our selves to trust in God for Deliverance still from our Irish Enemies we must take care we repent of and live not in those Sins for which we may rationally conclude God gave us of late into Subjection and Oppression under them I will not enter into particular Mens particular Sins I leave that to their own Consciences which will easily tell them Such and such a Sin has God visited upon me and mine Instead of that attempt I will only touch such publick Sins which were open and bare-fac'd amongst us and not all of them neither for time will not permit As principal ones then I must tax 1. A cursed Conjunction of Worldliness Sensuality and Haughtiness with meer Formality in Religion most of us contenting our selves with the Name of Reformed without any real practical Reformation or Zeal for promoting it We were intent on getting Estates on raising Families on living in Plenty on having all stoop to us and we in heart regarded not him that had set us up and both put and so long kept our Enemies under our Feet In plain terms had we Protestants been as industrious first our selves to have lived according to the Truth and Power of the Reformed Religion and then to have instructed the Irish therein as we were to secure our selves the Irish Lands had we been as careful to make them knowing good Christians as our selves rich and great we had in all probability never seen the Rebellion of Forty One nor the Tyranny of the late Eighty Eight and following years I must but name things I tax 2 Frequent Oppression of or Squeezing our poor Brethren and making our English Tenants Vassals Many of us to this day much more affect and court the Irish than our own Countrey-men and will these at any time for Twenty Shillings a year I say nothing of the Imprudence herein and Publick Detriment hereby But such Landlords sure remember not that though we ought to do good unto all yet especially to those who are of the Houshold of Faith I cannot forbear Lastly to tax the Notorious Excess of all Degrees in their Habit Tables Furniture and Equipage considering the Rank of each We have been many of us reproach'd for this of late in England yet we are at it again as fast as may be These and the like Evils we must repent of and take care we return not to if we would be qualified to trust in God that he will yet Deliver us Secondly As we must be qualified for such Trust so if we would that our Trust for Deliverance from Irish Papists should be successful we must beware we do not practically contradict that Trust Now that All do 1. Who mixt with them either in Sin Society Blood or Religion Those who mix with them in Sin must expect to be Sharers in their Vengeance and to perish one day With them therefore By them at least by such Mixture Those who mix with them in Society will soon mix with them in sin and in its fore mentioned Consequents Vengeance and Ruine Those who mix with them in Blood are thereby most intimately mixt in Society and consequently cannot avoid mixture in Sin Nor is there any Probability but that such should especially mix with them in Religion at least if they themselves do not the Posterity of such will For in all such Compositions the Production does usually Sequi Deteriorem partem partake most strongly of the III Leaven 2. It is another Practical Inconsistance in this Case to Trust God that He should deliver us from our Irish Popish Enemies and yet to Trust Them 'T is very true we ought to be such good Christians as to keep Faith with them and God forbid we should do otherwise but we ought not to be such Fools after so many Tryals of them as to believe they will ever keep Faith with us Our Lord Jesus indeed has taught us to forgive our Enemies and that even in Repeated Wrongs Luke xvii 3. If thy Brother trespass against thee if he repent forgive him The same is repeated vers 4. If he turn again to thee saying I repent thou shalt forgive him In which regard it would be considered Whether the body of the Irish I speak not of particular Persons but whether I say the Body of the Irish Nation even by the letter of the Evangelical Law be so qualified for forgiveness that we are obliged thereto God himself forgives not Impenitents But let the matter of a publick Forgiveness of them stand how it shall Christ no where commands us to trust our Enemies Praying for Enemies and Trusting them are two very different things The former we acknowledge our Duty and we hope with pure Consciences Hearts purged from all malice we daily practice it to all the Enemies we have in the World To the latter as no Obligation can be pretended either from Scripture or Reason so neither can the Inveterate hatred of the Irish towards us be denied or even fairly palliated And to make it more notorious they are now become as one Man sworn Votaries to our most Potent Enemy the Grand Enemy of West Christendum having by this means a separate Interest from most of the Roman Catholicks of Europe and so not to be trusted by us for that very reason for which we trust divers Nations of the Roman Communion Further what must make them eternally False to us in any seeming Reconciliation is That as their Priests are the Vilest of Men so they are most absolutely at the Command of their Priests and perhaps no Nation under Heaven so much as they And the Falseness and Irreconsileableness of Irish indeed I may say of any Popish Priests to