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A66362	Eight sermons dedicated to the Right Honourable His Grace the Lord Duke of Ormond and to the most honourable of ladies, the Dutchess of Ormond her Grace. Most of them preached before his Grace, and the Parliament, in Dublin. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Griffith, Lord Bishop of Ossory. The contents and particulars whereof are set down in the next page.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1664 (1664)	Wing W2666; ESTC R221017	305,510	423

it self For he that is a just man wrongeth no man And Solomon saith Prov. 16.12 The Kings throne is established by righteousness And again he saith Prov. 14 34. That Righteousness exalteth a Nation so that both King and Kingdom shall prosper through righteousness And he saith further That although evil pursueth sinners yet to the righteous good shall be repaid Prov. 13.21 And when the house of the wicked shall be overthrown Prov. 14.11 Chap. 3.33 the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish because God blesseth the habitation of the just And therefore the very Heathens erected a Temple unto Justice and ascribed divine worship unto Astraea which they termed the Goddess of Justice How just and righteous the Heathens were to the shame of our Fanatick and Cromwellian Christians in Ireland and many of them were very just most singular observers of justice for Homer saith That Sarpedon preserved the Kingdom of Licia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 through justice and fortitude And Herodian saith of Pertinax That he was both loved and feared of the Barbarians as well for the remembrance of his vertues in former battels as also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because wittingly or willingly he never did wrong or injustice to any man Plutarch ascribeth the like vertues to Lucullus Cicero to Pompey Ovid to Erictthaeus Virgil to Aeneas Suetonius to Octavius Augustus his Father and many others of the Heathens are recorded to have been like Aristides exceeding just And I would to God all those that say they are Christians were as just a● these Heathens were or as righteous as the Scribes and Pharisees for they were so strict in their lives especially in shew and made so great account of justice that they would tythe Mynt and Rue and the rest of the very smallest things and therefore S. Paul saith that they were the strictest Sect of all the Jewish Religion and yet our Saviour saith Except your righteousness doth exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees you shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven So you see the way that leads you to the Kingdom of God is to be just and righteous and so honest men without which it is in vain to pray to God it is in vain to believe in Christ and in vain to rely on him because as the Prophet David saith you must offer to God the sacrifice of Righteousnes Psal 4.5 and then you may trust in the Lord. But wherein doth the sacrifice of Righteousness consist Q. or how shall we become just or righteous men Rsep and so acceptable in the sight of God I answer that to be just and righteous and to offer the sacrifice of righteousness is reddere unicunque quod suum est That is to render 1. To God 2. To our King 3. To our Neighbours 4. To our selves what belongs to each of these 1 Branch of Righteousness and these are like the four Rivers of Paradise watering the whole Garden of God that being well observed will make it a Paradise indeed 1. What belongs to God Our Fanatique Enthusiasts and Sectaries think that as God is a Spirit so he requires no more but to be served in Spirit and truth for as the Prophet saith If he be hungry he will not tell thee because all the Beasts of the Forrest are his and so are the cattel upon a thousand hills And therefore the Lord saith my Son give me thy heart and so worship me with Faith Hope Love and the like spiritual affections which are most correspondent to me that am a Spirit That God will be worshipped with all that we have But you must know that they are very much deceived for as God hath made both Body and Soul and hath given us all that we have Houses Lands Riches and whatsoever else we do possess so he will be served and worshipped by all that we have with our Hearts to love him with our Tongues to praise him with our Eys lifted up to behold his wonders with our Knees bowed down to submit unto him with our Hands to do the work that he requireth and with our Wealth and Riches to honour him as the Wise man commandeth Honour God with thy riches And so our Saviour when he biddeth us to render unto Caesar what was Caesars and to God what is Gods meaneth it of our Wealth and Riches that we ought to render unto God and not of these internal services and spiritual worship that we do likewise owe to God for here the question was of the Tribute and Mony that the Jews were to pay to Caesar and therefore the true sense of our Saviours answer was secundum materiam subjectam according to their question give that part of your Wealth and Riches to Caesar which belongs to Caesar and that part of it to God which is due to God that Caesar himself may not have that which belongs to God Q But then you will demand what is that part and portion which belongs to God out of that All which God gives unto us Resp Levit. 27.30 I answer that they are first the Tythes which God requireth to be payd unto him and secondly the Donations which his people do freely offer unto him and God doth most graciously accept them which is an unspeakable favour that the great God and creator of all things the giver of all things that owns all things and wants nothing should so graciously accept the small gifts of us his poor creatures far beyond the Clemency of Xerxes that did so curteously accept a little cold water that was presented unto him by a poor subject that had nothing else to offer him But when any Lands Houses or Monies or any other part of our Goods is offered unto God let us not be so unjust as to rob God thereof for you may see what the Prophet saith will a man rob his God yet you have robbed me Mal. 3.8 in Tythes and Offerings that is in converting the Tythes to your own uses which I commanded to be paid to uphold my services and taking those Lands and Houses into your own possessions which most pious men had offe●ed to maintain my Religion Or if we do this as I see it commonly don in Ireland and in too many places in England then let us take heed lest that quorum flagitium imitamur eorum exitum inveniamus we find not the like success as they found that had don this before us And what is that I will shew you some examples of good note And I will not insist upon the punishment inflicted upon Achan Gehezi Shisake King of Egypt Johas King of Israel Sennacherib King of Assyria and Belshazzar King of Babylon and others for their Sacriledg and Injustice against God because you may read the same at your leasure in the holy Scripture But I shall desire you to remember what Seneca Sen. de Benefic l. 5. c. 12. a man that

aide and free will offering to do the same they were ready and so willing every man beyond his power to bring in their oblation in such abundance that Moses was fain to tell them they had brought enough and too much and therefore forbade them to bring in any more he like a good man and just being not desirous to make any gain of their bounty And you may read in 1 Chron. 29.3 1 Chron. 29.3 when King David resolved to have the Temple built what great provision he left for the erecting of it and how Solomon his Son did most gloriously finish the same in seven years 1 Reg. 6.37 and furnished the same with all things necessary for the service of God and after that Nebuchadnezzar had destroyed it the Jews under Zorobabel did most readily beyond the ability of captived men newly released contribute and offered their free-will offerings towards the re-edifying of the same which they finished in the ninth year of D●rius Histaspes Joseph lib. 11. c. 4. that made it to be forty six years in building from the second year of Cyrus who began it according as the Jews say to our Saviour Christ And because these newly released Jews that had scarce taken root in the Land of Jury and were but scarce seated and unsetled in Jerusalem were not able to make this their Temple answerable in glory and sumptuousness to that most rare and admirable Temple which those two mighty Kings and Kings of all Israel David and Solomon had joyned their wealth and strength together to make it a most glorious house for the most glorious and Almighty God therefore Herod that was but an alien an Idumean knowing that great and glorious things are to be offered ascribed and dedicated to the great and glorious God re-edified and finished the same most sumptuously in eight years Joseph l. 15. c. ult as Josephus writeth and he built the same so exceeding excellent and more admirable than the Egyptian Pyramides that Cheops builded of rare Theban Marble so that for the rareness thereof the Disciples shew it our Saviour Christ saying Master see what manner of stones Mar. 13.1 and what buildings are here And the Jews generally were so zealous of Gods service and so ready to build and erect houses for his service that besides this glorious great and magnificent Temple they had many Synagogues that is other lesser houses like unto our Parish Churches dedicated and consecrated for the worship of God and he was counted a very good man and worthy of all love and respect that had built one of these as they tell Christ that the Centurion was worthy to have that favour shewed him by Christ as to heal his Daughter Luk. 7.5 because he had loved their nation and had built them a Synagogue that is a house for the people to meet in it to pray and to serve their God in it And it is most likely they began to build these Synagogues when the Tribes were setled in the Land of Canaan because the Ark that remained in Shilo and afterwards the Temple that was erected in Jerusalem Why the Synagogues of the Jews were built were so far distant from them that dwell in the remotest parts of the Land that they could not come so often as they would unto it therefore they built to themselves Synagogues to pray to God and to serve him in them instead of the Temple for so we read that Moses of old time probable I say from their very first beginning of their settlement Acts 15.21 had in every City them that preached him being read in their Synagogues every Sabbath day where by the way you may observe that of old time contrary to the conceit of our new Fanaticks the reading of the holy Scriptures was accounted the preaching of Gods word though I deny not but after it be read and so preached Luk. 4.18 it may be further explained as Christ did that place of Isa 61.1 And you see they had these Synagogues in every City so they must have as many Synagogues as there were Cities in all their Land The number of their Synagogues and Sigonius writeth that there were four hundred and eighty of these Synagogues in Jerusalem and the Scripture sheweth that in other Cities and Provinces there were many other Synagogues as in Galile in Damascus in Salamis and in Antiochia and Maymonides one of their prime Doctors saith the tradition of their Elders was that wheresoever ten Families of Israel were they ought to build them a Synagogue And shall the Jews that were under the Law and burdened with such infinite Taxes and Ceremonies of their Religion as were more than they were able to bear Acts 15.10 as the Apostle testifieth be so zealous so religious and so ready to part with their wealth and the best things they had to build so sumptuous and so glorious a Temple and so many Synagogues to perform those services that God required of them which notwithstanding were but the types and shadows of that true Religion which we have and do profess to embrace it and shall we that have the substance of those shadows which they had and the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ which they never had but in aenigmate preached so clearly and so amply among us and are freed from all the legal Ceremonies and Ordinances of the Law be so cold and so careless as we are to repair the houses of Jesusr Christ I fear then that these Jews shall rise in judgment against us Nay more than this if you look into the stories of the Gentiles Grecians or Barbarians that knew not God but knew that there is a God which all men ought to worship you shall find how zealous they were to build Temples and Oracles to their unknown Gods that were no other than the devils as the Oracle of Delphos Amphiaraus Hamonium Dodonaeum the Temple of Diana at Ephesus of Vesta Ceres Minerva and other Goddesses of the Gentiles and the many many Temples that the Romans and other Nations built to Jupiter Apollo Mars and the rest of their false and faigned Gods and Goddesses that were indeed but very devils Quia dii gentum daemo●ia and how sumptuously they erected and gloriously adorned and beautified those houses of these deceitful Oracles and were so exceeding bountiful almost beyond belief in their oblations and donations to these holy places as they deemed them as it appeareth in Herodotus Herodotus l. 1. by the large gifts of inestimable value that Cresus sent to the Temple of Delphos and other Temples of those Gentile gods And because they knew no otherwise but that these infernal devils were Celestial Gods and so worshipped them as gods with Temples Altars Sacrifices Prayers and Oblations dedicated unto them which do only and properly belong to the true and eternal God therefore Horace saith to them that neglected the erecting and beautifying of these