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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

is the very case which gave occasion as 't is thought to this Psalm Sennacherib King of Assyria had 2 Kings 18. 13. 17. come up against and had taken most of the fenced Cities of Judah and was about with a vast Army such as comes not into the field now a-days to invest Jerusalem it self all not without great haughtiness and insolence even against the most High himself Hearken not says he to the poor besieged Jews by his Envoys V. 32. Hearken not to Hezekiah when he perswadeth you saying The Lord will deliver you Hath any of the gods of the Nations delivered at all his land out of the hands of the King of Ass●ria Where are the gods of Ham●th and of A●pad Where are the gods of Sepharvaim c. Have they deliver'd Samaria out of my hand Who are they amongst all the gods of the Countreys that have deliver'd th●ir Countrey out of mine hand that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand Now was the time for God to exact praise from the fierceness of this swaggering bubble and he does it By his word to his Prophet Isaiah He authorises Jerusalem to defy the invasion Ch. 19. v. 21 22. The virgin the daughter of Sion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn The daught●r of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee and v. 27. 28. He sends the invading King word in part how he will deal with him I know thy abode and thy going out and thy coming in and thy rage against me Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears therefore I will put mi●e hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest In v 32 33 c He assures the invaded and distressed people of deliverance Thus saith the Lord concerning the King of Assyria he shall not come into this City nor shoot an arrow there nor come before it with a shield c. for I will defend this City to save it c. And finally v. 35 and 36. the deliverance is effected I● came to pass in that night that the Angel of the Lord went out and smote of them one hundred foursc●re and four thousand And when they arose in the morning they were all dead corpses Now the wrath of man had praised God Now we know and the Assyrians then knew that the Lord is greater than all gods for in the Ezod 18. 11. thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them So shew thy self O Lord to all the proud ones of the Earth But more gloriously yet doth the wrath of man operate to the praise of God by his Directing either it or its effects to ends and purposes of his own beyond or beside the intention of the wrathful And herein most manifoldly shines forth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the much various Wisdom Power and Goodness of the Almighty It is not easy if possible to represent or account even in general all those marvellous ends of his own which God in this world serves and accomplishes by the sins by the ●uries rage and Pride of men May I have leave to specify some 1st Upon the world that is mankind in general The wrath of man praises God in that it is commonly the great Instrum●nt of his judgments and Vengeance throughout the Earth while the unthinking raging Insolents prove only God's executioners They indeed indulge the ferity and barbarity of their own nature they genuinly shew and of their own accord nakedly act themselves intending not any ways to be subservient to God nay haply intending rather to affront him and yet notwithstanding while they thus design meer self-gratification in open Tyranny or private Spleen they do God's work for him unawares Hereof we have a most illustrious instance in another Assyrian King Isai X. As to his Pride he saith Are not my Princes altogether Kings is not Calno as Carchemish and Samaria as Damascus c. All of them my New Conquests alike over-run with ease and intirely subjected to my will Here is now an Universal Monarch at least one more neerly such than any who now huff and rage as if they would be And he too falling upon his neighbours for the Glory of his A●ms For It is in his heart to destroy and cut off Nations not a few v. 7 8 c. This design and affectation of bloud added to his pride are certainly an high-flown pitch of the wrath of man But can God have any praise hence yes In all this though his own Stomach and Tyranny acted him yet was he notwithstanding all along only God's tool and for God taking vengeance upon an Hypocritical Nation the people of God's wrath v. 5 6 O Assyrian the rod of mine Anger and the staff in their hand that is by a change of the pronoun or person frequent with the Hebrew The Staff in thine the Assyrians hand is mine indignation I will send him against an Hypocritical Nation Howbeit v. 7. he meaneth not so neither d●es his heart think so He only designed Empire Tyranny bloudy greatness and to that purpose magically consulted which way to bend his arms as we read Ezek. XXI 21. But God directed him against this guilty Nation Amongst whom notwithstanding there was no doubt as the Apostle speaks in another case a Remnant according unto the Election of grace some men of piety or of good and honest hearts for 't is touching the people of the Jews his then only visible church that God speaks and them in zeal for their amendment he calls by such rough terms Now thô all by God design'd upon the wicked multitude of them might be the meer cutting them off and so the Assyrians fury in regard of these praised only the Divine justice yet upon those of them that feared the Lord and his word the wrath of man praised also his grace and fatherly love in chastizing his children In regard of both the proud and wrathful Assyrian is God's instrument Which engages me to speak a little more distinctly how the wrath of man praises God both upon his Church and upon his Enemies And 1st upon his Church God by his directing Providence makes the wrath of men praise him when it by resting upon his servants reforms and amends them or which is much the same of good makes them better advances them in purity and in all Christian virtue and practice This the Enemy intends not but God superintending effects There is no praise which God esteems equal to the Prevalence or Growth of Holiness in his Church When the wrath of man purges the faithful it praises him most seraphicly and I may say it together turns to prayer and that very effectually for the removal of that very wrath from his people That God many times refines his Church in the fire and by the heat of her Enemies fury the Instances in all ages are so plentiful that it is