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A71253	The description and the practice of the four most admirable beasts explained in four sermons upon Revel. 4.8 : whereof the first three were preached before the Right Honourable James, Duke of Ormond, and lord lieutenant of Ireland, His Grace, and the two Houses of Parliament, and others, very honourable persons / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gr. Lord Bishop of Ossory.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1663 (1663)	Wing W2664; ESTC R33669	79,502	118

most impardonable so of all deceits he that deceives his own soul is most desperate and in the most wofull condition And yet as Apollodorus the tyrant dreamed that he was taken and flead by the Scythians and his heart thrown into a boyling Caldron should say unto him I am the cause of all this my self because I have deceived thee in all thy wayes and in all thy plots and projects so how many simple foolish and beguiled souls are in the world that in all their wicked plots and practices and in all their covetous designs and mercyless oppressions of the poor John 16.2 do beguile themselves and betray their souls unto the Devil When as our Saviour saith they shall put his servants out of the Synagogues out of their places and offices as they have done of late and out of their means and maintenance as you do still amongst us and shall kill them and put them to death and think that they doe God good service and believe that they have the Eagles wings to mount up the readyest way to Heaven when as indeed they ride Post upon Pegasus the broad way to Hell And therefore seeing the heart of man is so deceitful as many times to perswade him he holds God by the hand when the Devil hath him fast fettered by the heeles it is requisite that we should be like these Beasts full of eyes within to look into our own hearts that they do not deceive us and to examine our own wayes that we be not mistaken in them lest while we aim to go to Jerusalem the City of God we shall with the Army of the King of Syria 2 Reg. 6.19 that he sent to Dotham to fetch Elisha be carryed blindefold into the midst of Samaria the City of our greatest Enemy for so the Prophet David saith he did commune with his own heart Ps 77.6 and his spirit made a diligent search that is into his actions lest his own heart should deceive him Ps 4.4 and so he adviseth us to doe the like saying Stand in awe and sin not commune with your own heart that is to examine diligently whether the things that you doe be sins or not and do not trust the suggestions and suppositions of your hearts until you make a search and a diligent inquisition into the true nature of them because many men do think they doe not sin at all when they doe most highly offend the Lord. And the reason is Why men deceive themselves because they have no eyes within to look into their own hearts and to examine their own actions but they are onely full of eyes without to pry into the doings and to censure all the acts of all others which is the humour of them that take delight to spy out the least mote that they see in the eyes of others but never look into the beam that is in their own eyes those horrible sins that lurk in their own hearts And this multiplicity of eyes without and the want of all eyes within when those that should be within are turned out is the cause that there are so many reformers of our Church and censurers of our State Etiam opifices quorum res fidesque in manibus sitae sunt Yea that even meer Mechanicks Handicrafts-men and Ploughmen whose credit wealth and wit lyes in their hands as Salust speaks of the seditious Plebeians of Rome do so impudently prate and censure the Government both of the Church and Common-wealth But as our Saviour said to St. Peter when he would needs know what should become of St. John Quid ad te What is that to thee Do thou follow me so I say to these men Quid ad vos What have you to doe with the mysteries of State or the matters of the Church It becomes you to doe as the Apostle adviseth you 1 Thes 4.11 To study to be quiet and to meddle with your own business and as my Text saith to be full of eyes within to look unto your own actions and not immittere falcem in alienam messem and to do as many Gentlemen use to do that is to travel over France Italy and Spain to understand the custems and fashions of other Countryes and to be altogether ignorant of the Lawes customs and conditions of their own Country But 2. These Beasts are not onely said to be full of eyes within 2 2. Why these beasts were full of eyes behind but in the sixth verse they are also said to be full of eyes before and behinde And that was to this end 1. They were full of eyes behinde to look backward and to behold the times and things that are past 2. They were full of eyes before 1. To consider the times and things that are present 2. To foresee the things and to provide for the times that are to come And Moses the man of God that was faithful in all God's house thought that this threefold sight and consideration of the times past present and to come would surely make the children of Israel to fear the Lord their God and to walk in his wayes or if these things would not do it he knew nothing in the world that could do it and therefore a little before his death in his last farewell and in the chiefest and most affectionate Sermon that ever he made unto this people this is the chiefest wish that ever I found exprest therein Deut 32.29 O utinam saperent intelligerent ac novissima previderent O that they were wise that they understood this that they would consider their latter end that is Vtinam saperent praeterita intelligerent praesentia providerent futura I would to God that this people did remember and call to minde the things that are past that they understood the things that are present and that they would consider the things that are to come and shall inevitably fall upon them And as Moses so do I wish to Almighty God that all and every one that heareth me this day would do as Moses here desireth and would be as these Beasts are here described that they might do what is here required And that is 1. To be full of eyes behinde to behold the times and to consider the things that are past for the want of this sight and consideration is a main cause of so much wickedness among the people and so much ignorance and impudency in our late Fanatique Leaders of their seduced followers for if they would have done Dent. 32. as Moses adviseth us To remember the dayes of old and read the Ecclesiastical Histories Councils and Canons of the Church and other Histories the Records of time both of the Greeks and Latines I perswade my self they would never have been so disloyal and rebellious against their Civil Governours and so averse and refractory to the Prelates of our Church Quia ignorantia mater inobedientia And therefore with Moses we have great reason to

be done in a withered saith our Saviour If he be so busie about the Saints what will he do to sinners And this is the state of a wicked man at his dying day But In the death of the godly it is not so 2 2. The state of the godly for having served God all his life Prov. 14.32 2 Tim. 1.12 he hath hope in his death and he knoweth not whom he needs to fear because he knoweth whom he hath believed and when his body is weakest his faith is strongest and therefore with Saint Paul he desires to be dissolved and he longs for death that he may be with him which was dead and is alive and liveth for evermore and he is well contented that his body shall go to the grave that his soul may go to glory and that his flesh shall sleep in the dust that his spirit may rejoyce in heaven And this is the state of the godly man at the day of his death And therefore if men would feriously consider this before they come to this then certainly the fear of the most fearful death of the wicked and the love of the most comfortable death of the godly would make them to have some care of Godly lives and to repent them of their wickedness And therefore well did Moses and we with Moses wish that men would consider their latter end And yet this is not the end of all for after death comes judgement And so Secondly This judgement is either 1 Particular 2 2 Judgment and that two fold or 2 General 1. As soon as ever the soul is parted from the body 1 1. Particular before the body is laid in the grave the soul of the wicked is fetched by the Devils and carried into the place of torments and the soul of the godly is received by the Angels into Abrahams bosom Luke 16.22 23. as our Saviour sheweth most plainly in the story of Dives and Lazarus And 2 Because the whole world 2 2. General both of men and Angels might see and approve the just judgement of God and that the whole man both body and soul might receive the full reward of their due deserts the Lord hath appointed a day saith the Apostle in the which he will judge the world in righteousnes Act. 17.31 that is by Jesus Christ And this is that day which Christ and his Apostles and all the faithful preachers of Gods word would have all men always to remember and to set it before their eyes For so Saint Hierom saith Whatsoever I doe whether I eat or drink or whatsoever else I am about me thinks I hear that dolefull voice of the Arch-angel sounding in mine cares and saying surgite mortui venite ad judicium arise you dead and come to judgement saith the Holy Father Itremble all my body over and so Felix though he was but a Heathen trembled Act. 24.25 as Saint Paul reasoned of righteousness temperance and judgement to come And so indeed it should make any heart to tremble that would seriously consider but these two things 1 The manner of Christ his coming For Two things to be considered concerning this judgment 2 The terror of his proceeding For First in that day there shall be signs in the Sun and in the Moon and in the Stars The Sun shall be darkned the Moon shall not give her light the Stars shall fall from the skies and all the powers of heaven shall be moved the Elements shall be dissolved with heat and the earth shall be consumed with fire Whereby you may see what a dreadful thing is sin for what have these senseless creatures deserved that they should be thus severely punished and thus travel in sorrow and pain but because they rose not up against us when we rose up against God He will therefore fight against them because they did not fight against us when we doe fight against him And what a fearful contagion of sin is this that subjecteth the very heavens unto vanity And therefore most wretched are we in whom dwelleth nothing else but heaps of sin and iniquity But to go on Then the distress of nations shall be great The distress of Nations how great and men shall wither away for fear saith our Saviour for when destruction shall be dispatched as a whirlwind and God shall burn the earth as Holophernes did the Countrey of Damascus what fears think you shall then affright the hearts of men and what heapes of perturbations shall run upon the damned sort when they shall see all these things playing their last act upon the fiery stage of this world And then they shall see the son of man cloathed with the clouds as with a garment riding upon the heavens The glorious ma●cr●● Christ ●is coming as upon an horse and coming flying as upon the wings of the wind in the glory of his father with his Angels and what manner of glory is that Moses tells you that the Lord our God is a God of Gods Deut. 10. and a Lord of Lords a great God mighty and terrible that accepteth no person nor taketh reward and Daniel describing the great Majesty of God saith that his garments were as white as snow the haires of his head like the purest wool his throne like the fiery flame and his wheeles like burning fire Dan. 7.9 10. and there issued forth a fiery stream and went on t from before him a thousand thousands ministred unto him and ten thousand times ten thous and stood before him And it is recorded of the Angels that one of them slew all the first-born of Egypt in one night and that another of them made such a havock in the army of the Assyrians that a hundred fouresoore and five thousand of them were all slain in one night and were laid on the ground as corn by a sickle And if one Angel could do such Tragick feates The great power● 〈◊〉 the Angels what shall become of the enemies of God and wicked men when Christ like a man of warr shall buckle his harness unto his side and come in the glory of his Father with so many myriads of heavenly Angels attending him Eusebius Emysenius demandeth Si talis tantus sit terror venientis quis poterit terrorem sustinere judicantis if his coming be such and so terrible who shall be able to endure the terror of his judgement And if the Israelites durst not abide his Majesty when he came to deliver the Law how shall the wicked abide and stand before him when he cometh to render vengeance unto them for transgressing his Lawes And yet they must endure it And it will be very terrible unto them For 2. In that day saith our Saviour He i. e. God shall send his Angels with the sound of Trumpets and with a mighty cry to raise the dead and to gather together the Elect from the four windes and from the one end