AW} '
SERMON
Preach'd to the
^otettants of 31relantj,
In and about the
CITY of LONDON,
A T
St. Mary le Bon? in Cbeapfide, O&ob. 23. 1689.
BEING
The Day appointed by Ad of Parliament in Ireland,
For an
Anniverfary Thankfgiving
For the
Deliverance of the Proteftants of that King¬
dom, from the bloudy MafTacre and Rebellion
begun by the Irijh Papijon the 23d of Octo¬
ber, 1641.
By His Grace the Archbilhop of TV AM.
LONDON,
Printed for Robert Clavel, at the Peacock in St. Paul's-
Church-yard. 1689.





Epiftle Dedicatory.
liberal, fo Jhe may inherit the ,
that her Righteoulnels may remain
for ever, and her feed be blefled.
Tour Lordjfrip hav, "with the She¬
riffs, and feveralof Tour Brethren,
honoured my poor and
Fellow-fufferers,with Tour on
■ our folemn Anniverfary, this Sermon is
made publict Tour infldnce,
as an argument of ref to Tour
fure, and teftimony of Gratitude to Tour
■Lordfhip, and the Cityy in the name of
my Brethren, the Proteflants Ireland,
4s well as of,
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My Lord,
Your Lordfliip's moft obliged,
' and mofl: humble Servant,
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SERMON
Preach'd to the
$?oteftants of
In and about the
CITY of LONDON, &c.
Pfalm 102. 13. Thou fhalt and have
Mercy upon Sion 5 for the time to favour ,
yea,the fet time is come.
WHo was the Pen-man of this Pfalm, we are
not much concern'd to enquire; the Style and
Compofure of it very well anfwers the Title
it bears ; 'tis a Prayer of the afflitled, when he is over'
whelm d, andpoureth out his complaint before God; and is
reafonably fuppos'd to.be endited by fome devout Per-
fon of the Captivity, in the dawning of their Delive¬
rance ; and the.words of the Text are t ie key that opens
and leads into that Expofition, and fo may afford us an
occafion of Meditation, either upon the dark or bright
fide of Providence, upon the fad Subjed: of the prelent
State of the Church and Kingdom to which we belong,
or the Mercies formerly vouchfafed, or now hop'd for,
from the fame Good and Almighty Gondud, which
both


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both hatb, and doth,and toe t will fiill deliver us From
thole unrealbnablemen,who have twice, in the memory
of many yet living,and of feme that hearme,lhewn their
irreconcilable hatred,both of our Religion,and our Nati¬
on ; in Robbing, Plundering,Murthering,and Banilhing
luch as liv'd Peaceably, Nighbourly and Hofpitably with
them; and all this for no other Realbn,but becaufe after
the way which they call Here fie. We the God of our
Fathers; or, becaufe we adhere lb firmly to the Intereft
of this Kingdom,from whom we have learnedboth our
Language,znd our Catechiftn; whole Bloud is in our
Veins, whofe Speech is in our Mouths, and whofe Faith
and Worlhip is in our Hearts ; whofe kindnefs to us has
coll them lb much to defend and to relieve us, and for
whofe prefervation they are ftill ready to fpend, and to
be fpent, not only in Eleemofynary Charities, but Na¬
tional Alfiftences,z# the publick S of Life and Fortune,
for our Reftauration.
And on this account our State differs fo much from
that of the Jews, reprefented in this Pfalm, that the
Text may not feemwellchofen ; for we do not fing the
Lord's Song in a ftrange Land '. We are here Exiles indeed,
but not Captives; while our poor friends left behind are
Captives, though not Exiles. We are notgall'd with any
taunting or reviling Speeches: The Songs of Siou are not
matter of profane Mirth and Drollery, but of Devotion;
and we are encourag'd, and honour'd by a full and fo-
lemn Prefence of the Authority of this Great City, which
is come hither, to magnifie the Lord with us, in the Ce¬
lebration of the days of our Purim,znd to praife him for
our Deliverance from that bloudy Mallacre defign'd a-
gainll All, and with cruel and barbarous Circumllan-
ces a died upon many, many Thoulands of the Prote-
ftants of Ireland; beginning on the the a 3d of Ollolcr
1641, by the bloudy and mercilels Papifts of that
Kingdom. A Day


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A Day, never to be forgotten, being turn'd
from for row to joy, and from mourning into a great
Day of Feafting, and (ending Portions to one ano¬
ther , and Gifts to the poor, Efth. 9. 2z. A Day,
which by Gods Providence, turned the evil upon
the Contrivers, fo that Haman and his Sons were
hang'd upon the Gallows fet up for Mordecai.
A Day, appointed (as the Fifth of November
here, ror the Gun-powder Cenfpiracy ) by Ad: of
Parliament there, with fpecial Offices and Pray¬
ers for the Service, that it may be rememlred and
kept throughout every Generation, that the Memori¬
al of it, fbould not perifb from our Seed. But
a Day now defecrated and profaned, and the
Ad whereby it was appointed, repeafd by thofe,
who inftead of building, pull down the Tombs
of the Prophets they flew, as if they either de¬
nied the fad, or approved the doing it; the firft
of which, they may do, with as much truth, as
the latter with jultice ; but for whatever Reafons
it is, that they have taken off this Record and
Monument of their Rebellion, it is notwithftan-
ding written in a Book, where nothing but Re¬
pentance,through his Blood	hat fpeaks better things,
can wipe it out, and which I heartily pray God
to grant them. Since withput that, in vain do
they wafli their hands like Pilate, from the Blood of
the Innocent; in vain, do they proteft againlt the
Faft> fo Notorious, fo Infamous to the World.
For, 0 thou Enemyy tho' thou now Writeft after
the firft Copy, as Draco did his Laws in Blood,
tho' like the great Abaddon, thou burneft Coun¬
tries, and deftroyejl Cities, and their Memorials
may perifh with them. Vet the Lord (hall endure
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Lord hath afflitted me, in the Day of his fierce an-,
ger > And this was the very fling of his affli&ion,
he complains not fo much of what he felt, as he
grieved that God was difpleafed. I have eaten
Ajhes like Bread,and mingled my Drink with weeping,
hecaufe of thine Indignation and thy Wrath,as a Child
that receives Corre&ion kindly, fears not fo much
the punifliment, as his Fathers anger; weeps not
fo much for the fmart of the Rod, as he melts
for grieving a tender and indulgent Parent. Such
was the Condition of the Pfalmift, and his deep
Senfe of it: But where Senfe fails and leaves us
deflitute, Grace comes in as a prefent help, which
we may next confider.
2. The Triumph of his Faith. For if Mature will
return into the bofome of our Earthly offended
Parents, Grace and Companion will more freely
and fully flow from the Bowels of the Heavenly
and Eternal Father. I know that my Redeemer liveth,
faith Job-, and thou fhalt endure for ever, faith the
Vfalmifi; thou art an Eternal Spring of Life and
Comfort, and tho' my days are like a Jhadow that
declineth, yet in thy Light, I lhall fee Light. For
thou fhalt arife, &c.
That then which arifes from the Text for our
Initru£tion ,• is,
1. That tho' God may fuffer his Church and Peo¬
ple to be fometimes in a fuffering and low Eftate, yet
he will in the beft and fitted time, relieve and re-
flore her.
2. That the belief of, and dependance on his Pro¬
vidence,is in all fuch afflictions, the greateft Joy and
Comfort.
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themfelves fo, when they are not; nor would this
feem ftrange, if we confider the Churches fins, or
the advantages of affliction, how juft the Punifh-
ment, how fanative the Medicine.
1. Her Sins, are more provoking than others,and
reflect greater Difhonour upon God and His Go¬
vernment, and prefidency in his Church, as if he
were the Patron of Sin, or Refpefter of , al¬
lowing that in her, that He punilhes in others ?
Her Sins are againtl more Light and clear Con¬
viction, and he that teacheth man , Jball
not he punifh? They are Affronts of greater
Love, and Grace, and Violations of the exprefs
Covenant, by which they become his People:
And therefore, the nearer any draw to him, the
more feverely will he corre£k them. Ton only
have I known, faith the L, Amos 3. z. Of all
the Id at ions of the Earththerefore I punifh
you for all your Iniquities. Judgment fhall begin
at his own Houfe, that being Chaftned of the
Lord, it may not be condemn'd with the World.
Which leads you to Confider,
z. The Advantages the Church may receive
by Her Afflictions. I lhall name but a few of
many. As,
1. Affliction is a great Inftrument in the Re¬
formation of our Morals, and 'tis a great Help
to Devotion. When he flew , then they fought
him, and turKd early, anil after God. It
humbles men under the mighty Hand of God,
When thy Judgments are in the World, the In¬
habitants of the Earth will learn
It opens the Eyes, and calls forgotten Sins to
Remembrance. It embitters Repentance, by cau-
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therly Condelcendings, and Indulgence of one
fide, fo it is to be hop'd, the other will not re¬
move further, and rife higher, or be like froward
Children, whom nothing will pleafe, but the Rule
and Government of the Family in their own way.
And fince we ow'd our Difpofitions to Peace, to
our Afflictions, let us have a Care, if we fo Coon
forget the Leflon we had almoft learn'd, that we
provoke not God's Judgments, to teach us it again,
by the fame Difciplinc-,and let all lee,to our ihame,
that Proteftants will be no longer quiet, than the
Rod is on their Backs: That while the Storm
blows, or the Roman Eagle is in the Air, the Chick¬
ens will flee to the Covert, and take Sanctuary
in that Church, which, as in His late Gra-
tious Speech, as truly as faith, is one of the
greateft Supports of the Proteftant Religion in general,.
and which would,to juftifie His Royal Word, as well
as for other Realbns, gather all the Parts of it under
her Wings, as a Hen doth her Chickens, lut they would
not; But as loon as the Sun lhines, and the Bird of
Prey is remov'd, too many begin again tofcatter and
divide, and quarrel, as if they would pick out their
Mothers Eyes, and then one anothers. But if nothing
but Affliction, will make us in Love with Peace,and
with one another, for my part, I think it fo great
a Duty, fo much a greater Blelfing, than any out¬
ward Enjoyments, that I lhall call for it, and pray
for it. Welcome Affliction, and welcome Perfeac¬
tion • nay, which I thought I ihould never fay,
welcome even Popery, that will infallibly bring
\ both; but welcome as a Viper, only bccaufe it
brings with it, an Antidote for its own Venom.
3. As the Churches-Sufferings difpoles Men
to


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of their Tteth, they faw their Grinders ; and thac, they
intended to eat up this Church, as they eat Bread, while
in the Language of the railing Meffenger from Babylon,
they threatned to make it feed upon its own Dung. Since
therefore it is good for us to be affli&ed, fince it is juft
it fhould be fo, let us not wonder, if any time it is
lo.
1. Let us not think ftrange of the Fiery Trial, as if
feme ftrange Thing happened to us, nor charge God
foolifhly, but rejoice in as much as we arePartakers of
CbriJPs Sufferings, i Pet. 4. 12. *
2. Let none add Affii&ion to the Miferable, by cenfu-
ring thofe as greater Sinners, that are greater Sufferers
than themfelves : Left in faying fe, they condemn the Ge¬
neration of God^s Children. This was the miftaken Rule
of JoFs Friends, by which they condemned him of Hy-
pocrify. This was a falfe Meafure under the Law,
tho it promifed external Bleflings; as is affirm'd by
David, Pfal. 57. and Jfaph.yj. Much more under the
Gofpel, where our Saviour has ruPd the Cafe exprefly,
and to our Point. Luke 13.2. Suppofe ye, that thofe Ga¬
lileans, 1vhofe Blood Pilate mingled with their Sacrifices,
were Sinners above all, becaufe they fuffered finch Things,
1 tell you, nay ; but except ye repent, ye fhall all likewife
perifb. But if any fhall be fo fevere upon their Bre¬
thren, let us take fhame with, and as part of our Pu-
nifhment, not returning the Crimination, but faying
with David, Pfal. 141. 5. Let the Righteous fmite me,
it fhall be a Iftndnefs; and let him reprove me, it fhall
be an excellent Oil, which ftall not breake my Dead : for
yet my Prayer fljall be in their Calamities and in their
Profperity too: That that Judgment begun among us,
may never pafs over to this excellent Church, but that
it may be ft ill a Refuge for the Oppreffed in the Time
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Ezra 1.1. for this great Work. And therefore the Pfal-
mift experts not the Deliverance from him, but God, to
whom Mercy and Salvation properly belongs.
We may here confider two Grounds of the Plalmift's
Faith : The Mercifulnefs of God's Nature; and his Pro-
mife General or Particular.
1. The Mercifulnefs of the Divine Nature. 'Tis the
Prime Attribute. God in Works of Mercy, is in his
own Place, his Throne, his Glory, his Delight. 'Tis
the moft amiable and adorable Perfe&ion. The Crown
of his Majefty, Nulla fine honitate Majejlas. The Ground
of the Creatures Worfhip, Repentance and Confidence.
His Immenfity, Omnipotencey Power and Jufice, are full
of Smoak and Fire, too big to be conceived, too tre¬
mendous to be thought on, divided from his Mercys
we think of them with Confufion and Amazement, and
can no more come near them, than to the burning
Mount. They may be for us, but they may be, and
often are againft us; but Mercy is ever on the Sinners
fide, a Friend to Mifery and Trouble. With what In-
juflice to God, and Difcouragement to Creatures, do fome
Men reprefent him? as if he w'ere the Deftroyer, not
the Preserver of Men ; as if he waited for Advantages
againft us, inftead of waiting to be Gracious to us.
Under the Shadow of this Attribute every diftreffed Crea¬
ture feeks for Shelter,- by a rational Dire&ion. The
Ninivites, Strangers to Revealed Religion, fled to it, and
found Safety under its Wings, tho the Timey yea the
Set-Time was appointed for their Deftruftion, and there¬
fore there is more hope for Sion, even upon this Ground.
But there is more yet: For,
2. The Plalmift's Confidence was not built only on this
General Foundation, but on God's Fidelity, his Juftice to
his Word and Promife.
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i There are the General Promifes of Mercy to pent-
tent Sinners interfperft throughout the Bible, which it were
endlefs to enumerate.: by which it becomes as juft with
iiim to pardon Sin repented of, as to punifh it, when it
is not. The Mercifdnefs of his Nature moves him to
make fitch Promifes; his Veracity and to keep them.
What a beating is there: in his Heart, what a Struggle,
when the Sins of his People force him to his ftrange
Act ? Hof. 11. 8* How fhall I g thee ftp, Ephraim ? horn
ftj all I deliver thee, Ifrael ? viz, to the their
Enemies: My .Heart is turned within me, my
are kindled together. But this Ephraim no fooner be¬
moans himfelf, but God's Bowels yearn over him. Is
Ephraim my dear Son I is he a pleafent for fwce I
Jpake againft him, I do earne(lly remember him ft ill,
fore my Bowels are troubled for him. Here's the Merci-
fulnefs of his Nature. I will furely have Mercy upon ,
faith the Lord, there's his Promife to back it, Jer. 51. 20.
And in the midft of all his Judgments he Bill remem¬
bers Mercy. God had often threatned the Jews, even
to Captivity, and Defolation of their Country, that
they fhould pine away, in their own and their Fathers
Iniquities, but yet, when their uncircumcifed Heart fhould
be humbled, and they fhould accept of the
of their Iniquity, he promifes to remember his Cove¬
nant, and not caft them away, neither abhor them to
deftroy them utterly; For I am the Lord thy God,
Lev. 26. 39, &c.
But the Plalmift had not only in his Faith a general
View of the Promifes, but feems to fix his Eye upon
fome fpecial Period, when he ventures to tell God, that
the Time of Favour, yea, the Set-Time is come, which
was the laft and percife Ground of his Faith in the
Churches Deliverance. His Faith was not left at ran
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dom, to guefs by uncertain Signs and Prognofficks the
Time of the Accomplifhment, but was led to it by a
clue of fpecial Determination of Seventy Years, to which
God had limited the Time of their Captivity ; and
which being recorded, Jer.25.12. 2 21,22.
Dsn id was inftrudted thereby to underftand, that God
would in that Time accomplifh the Deflations of Je-
rufalem, Dan. 9. 2. At which Time accordingly, the
Spirit of Cyrus was, to the wonder of the World, mo¬
ved by him, who has the Hearts of Kings in his Hand,
to fulfil what had been fo long before prophefied of
him.
So that having brought the Plalmift juft to the Brink
of the Deliverance, this may bring to your remembrance
the fecond Point propos'd
Prop. II.
That the belief of, and Dependence upon God1 s Providence
over his Church, is in all Afflictions
and Comfort.
The very thoughts of this, put a new Air upon the
Plalmift's Countenance. We fhall dilcern and feel this
more fenfibly, if we confider a little, their Condition, in
a few Branches., Asr
1. Their great follicitude on account of their Friends
left behind in their Country. We find Nehemiah .very
anxious in this Point, Nehem. 1.3,4. And when he
heard of their great Affliction and Reproach, he fell a
weeping: He ftarv'd with them in and pin'd
with them in Rocks and Holes of the Earth. He
heard the Lamentations in Rama, and law Rachel weep¬
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wife and over-ruling Providence , that appoints the
Times and the Sea fens, and lofes no opportunity; that
direfts all the Turns and Viciflitudes of Affairs ! How
do they wonder at the Conlpi ration of fecond Caufes,
all working together, and moral Agents moving in the
ufe of their own. Liberty, and yet carried on by a fecret
Byafs, to bring about the Great Plot of Divine Wifflom ;
lo that it infallibly and yet freely comes to pafe. How
thefe Things are reconcilable, when they thought to know,
it may be too painful for them : But we fee. the Strokes
and Intereft of Providence in the Revolutions of the
World, and are fenfible of our own freedom. And how¬
ever hard it is to comprehend, it is very comfortable to be¬
lieve, and delightful to obferve thefe Things.
2. But again, as they rejoice inch lb, they do
in the Effect. Their Union with one another,, as in the
lame Society, increafes their Joy mutually ; every Man
rejoices not only for himfelf, but for his Brother, and for the
Community of the Churehi There are feveral Unions and
Combinations among Men, but Religion has its Name for
nothing, if it does not tye Men in the ftribteft Bonds to
God and one another. There is a natural Unity in Hu¬
manity, a Political, a Matrimonial, an Unity in Blood,
and in Friendlhip ; but above all, and which I wifh were
in you all, there is the Unity of the Sprit, in the, Commu¬
nion of Saints; all other Societies' are. but Corporations,
this is a Confederation of Souls. Such are Brethren, be¬
gotten of the lame immortal Seed by the fame Father,
born of the lame Mother, Jerulalem from the Mo¬
ther of us all, Fellow-Citizens,- Travellers'to the lame
Country, and Heirs of the fame Eromifb, 4. 4. If
then the Relation be lb near, built on-fuch Foundations, the
Endearments mull: be very tender, and the Joy mutual;
and therefore to fee Jerufalem in Profperity all the days of
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I may rejoycc in that. Shall we be angry that
the Ark is prelerv'd , and not worfhip before it,
becaufe upheld by Vzzah ? Let us patiently wait
for Deliverance , and accept it, tho it be not
wrought in the manner fome Men would have it:
If the Angelopen the Door,(ashe did for S.Peter)
let us go out, tho neither the High Prieft, nor
the Roman Governour fign the Warrant.
2. The fecond Ule we are to make, is Prayer.
God s Promiies do not fuperfede , but fuppofe
and require this Duty , and the Text is an ad:
of Faith and Interceffion together.
Ezra and Nehemiah are very inftant in this
Office, even when the time was fet; and Da¬
niel , tho he underftood by Books the Years of
the Captivity to be appointed , betakes him with
earneftnefs to Prayer, and reckons the omiffion,
as one of their great Crimes, Dan.9.13. and God
(after many Promifes for the reftoring his People)
tells them, Ezek.^6.37. I will yet le enquired of\
hy the Houfe of Ilrael to do it for them. And
tho the Prophecies in the Revelations are mod
critical in the times, which intimates that they are
certainly fet, tho poffibly uncertainly underftood ;
nay, the Angel fays in the laft Chapter, The time is
at hand,and he which leftifies of thefe things lays,
Surely , I come quickly; yet the Spirit and the
Bride fays, Come ; and the Apoftle concludes all,
Evenfo, Come Lord Jefus. Nay, the nearer God
draws to us in fulfilling his Words , as Men grow
more inquifitive , and are more enlightned , fb
more Zealous, and (as a Ship that fails fafteft,they
fay,towards the Shore) fo more earned in Prayer for
the accomplifhment. And 1 wifh we had this Argu¬
ment of the approach of Our Deliverance.
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Oljett. But you will fay, The Set times of Dc-M
liverance are not difcovered to us, as to the Jews :
Shew us fome Sign > whereon we may ground Our Hope
and Joy.
Anjw. Tho to feek after a Sign be no laudable
Character in the Scriptures of them that do Co,
yet I lhall try if I can gratifie , that I may in-
ftrudt you in this.
Firft therefore, When the Provocations of your
Enemies are higher than yours, and your Humi¬
liations deeper than theirs: When they loafl and
rejoyce that they can do mifchief, and cry, Down
with it, down to the ground; and we are humbled
to the Duft for the Evils we have done, as well as
fuffer'd ; that's a Grifis of Judgment on their fide,
and Mercy on ours. But alas! if all be true that
Each fays of Each, God is ill-ferved on both fides:
But take thefe apart; When the Lufts of Men
grow fb unruly, that neither Laws, nor Promifes,
nor Oaths can reftrain them, and as if it were a
fma/l thing to weary Men, by difpenfmg with and
fufpending their Laws ; but they muft weary God,
not only by finning againft, but rejecting His
Law. This is one Sign that the Harvelt is ripe
for the Sickle, if we may believe the PJalmiJl,
It is time for thee, Lord, to lay to thine hand, for 1
they have dejlroyd thy Law.
Again, When Men are more fenfibly touched
for the Publick, than their Private Lofles, for
their Country than their Family, and for Religion
than their Country, /. e. for God's Honour than
their own; that's another Sign (given here by the
Pjalmijl) why the Set time is come ; for thy Ser¬
vants take pleajure in her Stones , and favour the
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Dujl thereof. The Burnings of their own Houles
and Plantations are not near fo fenfible to them,as
the havock that is made in God's Houfe and Vine¬
yard , which they cannot think of without the
greateft Senfe and Sorrow.
By this you may know, how you are qualified
lor future Deliverances, and how thankful for the
paft. Thankfulnefs for Mercies received , is the
greateft engagement upon God to give us more:
But, if we be not fcnfible of what we have loft,
we cannot be thankful for what we had, and
then we ftand here as Profane Mockers, and
Hy pocrites before God; and yet if you reflect on
your Deliverance, as you ought, efpecially on that
of this Day, even of this lame Day, as the Pro¬
phet fpeaks , Ezek. 4?,. 2. in which the King of
Babylon let himlelf againft Jerufalem. You cannot
but bow your Heads and worlhip the God of
your Salvation , by whom you efcaped Death.
If weconfider the Security the Protejlants were in,
Charity thinking no evil , it is a wonder they
were not all deftroyed,and that any were Inatch'd
out of the Fire: For who could exped: Evil from
a People unprovok'd, with whom they had con-
traded Alliances and Friendlhips ; who enjoy'd
equal benefit of the Laws with the Protejlants,
lhar'd equally in the Lcgifiative Power and Ad-
miniftration of Juftice; had the Bar filfd with
Lawyers of their own Perfwafion; had (by Conni¬
vence) the toleration of their Religion and exercife
of their Ecclefiaftal Jurilclidaon, and all the Orders
of their Hierarchy, tho to the fcandal of the
Laws againft them; that neither thefe Favours,
nor the Fear of the juft Vengeance of this King¬
dom,


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the Proteflavts of Ireland.
dom, if not of the Almighty, fhould reftrain them
from fo barbarous a Defign ? Tantum Religio potuit
fuadere. Nothing but their Religion was capable
to infpire them to fuch Cruelty. The Govern*
ment could not believe it, tho advertiz'd of it by
King Charles the Martyr, March 16.1640. half a
year before; and by another Hand , a Fortnight.
Nay, (care could Connelleys Difcovery be credited
the very Night before the Butchery: And if
Government (that is commonly Jealous ) were
thus ftrpine, how foundly did the poor Men
abroad in the Country fleep, never dreaming of
fuch a Danger, till the Skein was at their Throat,
or the Flames about their Ears ? It muft make
your Ears tingle, and your Hearts ake , fhould
I call to your Remembrance , what you have
known, or your Fathers have told you ; how ma¬
ny they burnt , making Hundreds together to
pais through the Fire to their Moloch, they in the
mean time crying out, How faeetly do they fry >
forcing Droves of men and women into Rivers, bu¬
rying fome alive, ripping up Women big with
C hild. and giving the Infant to the Dogs; compel¬
ling the Wife to kill the Husband, and the Son the
Mother, and then murder the Son ; forcing men to
Mafs, and then kill them, that they might dye in
the true Faith : and when they were tired, boaft-
ing and contending who had obliged the Devil moft
in fending him moil; Souls. If this he Humanity,
let me live among the more merciful Beafts ! If this
he Religion , let me live among thofe that have
none !
I have reafon to beg pardon'for fo melancholy
an Entertainment, pouring fo much Water into the
Wine


A Sermon Preached to
Wine of your Feftivity. But I have done it,
i. That in Contemplation of what you have e-
leaped, yon may be the more thankful, z. That
you may the more dcteft that Superflition that
approves liichCruelty.For Pope Vrban the Eighth,
in May 43, ad futuramrei memoriamysx\d pity it is
it iliouid bs forgotten, fends them a Plenary Indul¬
gence,amfRemifhon of all their Sins, on account of
thole their good Services.
But they Objedt , That 'tis difingenuous to re¬
proach men fcr their fins after Repentance ; and
they made their Peace with the King, and were af¬
terward good Subjefls.
And I fhould ask their pardon, if as they Ihew'd
their Faith by their Works, they had Ihew'd their
Repentance, by fruits meet for it. But as to the
Peace and Articles they challenge , r. It is to be
obferv'd it was a forc't and after-game,when they
had in vain by deputed Commifiioners offer'd the
Proted:orlhip of the Kingdom to the Pope, to the
French King, King of Spain, the Duke of Lorrain,
or any other Popilli Prince.
2. They took advantage of the King's ill Af¬
fairs in England, and were lo long before they
would conclude, that inftead of doing the King
Service, it haften'd his Death; for it was not fign'd
till the middle of that Month in the latter end of
which he was murdered.
3 After this, they difown the King's Authority
in the Hands he placed it, Excommunicating the
Lord Lieutenant, the Lord of Ormond, and all that
ftdher'd to him, and attempted to feize him in
Waterford, Lymerick, and Galway, and deny'cl him
entrance in other places.
And


the Prof eft ants of Ireland.
And whereas their way of purging themfeIves
is by criminating the Proteflants,let the difference
be obferved between them. The Papifts went in¬
to Rebellion voluntarily, and by neceffity of their
Affairs made Peace twice, and as often broke it:
And by this their Rebellion , forced fome Prote-
ftants to take Arms for Bread, and to recover their
Eftates, under a Power, which they themfelves
after own'd as the Legal Authority, and fecure San¬
ctuary for their Lives and Confciences: And thefe
very Proteflants, as fbon as they had opportunity,
in Convention, firft declared their abhorrence of the
Murder of the Father , even out-running England
in that matter, and then declared for the Son, put¬
ting their Lives and Fortunes in the King's hand ,
without any Articles or Conditions : So that upon
the whole matter, the cafe Hands thus; The Irifh
Papifls [aid they would ferve the King, and did not :
Some of the Proteflants taid they wouldnot^and did.
Which of them did the Will of. their Father ?
I am fenfible how improper fuch Difeourfes
feem in this place; but when you confider the
Latitude thefe Occafions allow, of making a ftep
fometimes out of the Rode of a Preacher, and the
Truth of wThat I have faid , and the Confidence
with which it is deny'd, 1 lhall make no other Ex-
cufe.
And what now remains to be done, but Awhile
we with thankful hearts remember the great Mercy
of paff Deliverances, wTe ferioufiy and fad'Jy be¬
wail and repent of thole fins which have brought
now the feconci time the lame Judgments upon us;
fo lhall our fecond Deliverance be greater than
the former, and we and our Pollerity lhall fay
as


32 'ASermon\ &c.
jcr.i^.i 4,15. as in the Prophet Jeremiah, the clays comefa which
. it Jhall no more be [aid, The Lord liveth that brought
up the Children of Ilrael out of the Land of Egypt,
that delivered us from the Rebellion begun 41 ;
but the Lord liveth, who bringeth us from all the
Lands, whither he hath driven us (as when the jet
time is come) he will bring us again into the Land
that he gave unto our Fathers.
FINIS.
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Roman Forgeries in the Councils during the firft
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