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A64348	A sermon preach'd to the Protestants of Ireland in the city of London at St. Helens, Octob. 23, 1690 being the day appointed by act of Parliament in Ireland for an anniversary thanksgiving for the deliverence of the Protestants of that kingdom from the bloody massacre begun by the Irish papists on the 23d of October, 1641 / by Richard, Lord Bishop of Killala.	Tenison, Richard, 1640?-1705.	1691 (1691)	Wing T684; ESTC R9854	19,055	32

them he delivered them to their Tormentors The Israelites could not arrogate this Victory to themselves It was not their Innocency or their Merit which obtained it for they were sinners as well as the men of Judah as the Prophet tells them in the next Verse Verse 6 but they were the sins of the men of Judah which occasioned it because they had forsaken the Lord God of their Fathers Pekah slew in one day an hundred and twenty thousand It was their sin of forsaking God which gave their Enemies that mighty Conquest and Success 'T was that which enabled them to subdue so many stout men at one time Whence observe That neither Courage nor Conduct Strength nor Magnanimity can withstand the Power and Will of God there is no resisting his Almighty Arm when he is provoked by our sins 'T is said When the Lion roars all the Beasts of the Forest tremble And well may poor Mortals quake when God is angry A due consideration of his Power and our own Guilt may fill the stoutest Heart with Dread and Terror Psal 119.120 David though a man of invincible Courage cries out My flesh trembleth for fear of thee and I am afraid of thy Judgments He knew God could afflict him with Spiritual Temporal and Eternal Judgments the apprehension of which did so terrifie him that he could neither sleep nor speak Psal 77.4 Thou keepest me waking and I am astonished I am so troubled that I cannot speak And he gives the Reason of this in the next Verse I have consider'd the days of Old the years of ancient times or the eternal years as the Septuagint renders it 'T is a dangerous thing to provoke a God who is armed and invested with such Power it is not safe to stir up his Anger and Wrath For as David tells you Psal 90.11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger Even according to thy fear so is thy wrath And the Epithets Hot Great Fierce Burning and Smoaking are generally added to the Anger of God in Scripture to shew the great danger of exciting his wrath and the difficulty of resisting it and defending our selves against the fatal consequences of it when 't is once kindled It being as the Apostle says Heb. 10.31 a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God What vast Armies have been defeated what flourishing Cities have been consumed what Noble Countries have been laid waste in his Anger you may at large see in Scripture All the Elements are at his Command and can destroy us when he pleases The Earth the Sea and even Hell it self have opened their voracious mouths and swallowed down numbers in his wrath Angels have come from Heaven and slain whole Armies at a time If one of those powerful Spirits could slay 185000 in a Night as one did in the Army of Sennacherib what can the whole Hoast of Heaven do when God is enraged against us Observe therefore the Advice of Moses Deut. 6.13 and fear the Lord thy God and serve him lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee and destroy thee from off the face of the earth How soon did he make it open and swallow down Corah and his Confederates And did he not rain down Fire and Brimstone from Heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrha Which with many other sudden Judgments in Holy Writ may terrifie us from incurring his Indignation Remember also what he did to his own People of Israel whom he brought through the Red Sea and fed with Manna in the Wilderness and dread the like Executions of his Vengeance and seriously conclude That except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Compare your sins with theirs and you will soon find that you have reason to fear as great and as heavy strokes for sin was never more openly committed and all sorts of Impiety did never more abound than they have done of late years in these Nations The Records of God's former Punishments have had little Operation upon these Kingdoms And we alas who are now met together may with shame and sorrow confess that the dreadful Judgment which we this day commemorate did not Reform us And therefore God hath justly punished us again in delivering us into the hands of our Enemies who but for the Terror of the English Arms would in all probability have slain us as the Israelites did the men of Judah with a rage that would have reached up to Heaven Which is the Third thing in the Text to be discours'd on Thirdly Their cruel usage of the men of Judah in slaying them with a rage that reached up to Heaven When once God gives up a People to be punish'd the Devil instigates the Executioners to do it with all possible Malice and Inveteracy They gratifie their revengeful Appetite at such times their Ambition and Rigour increase with their Power They throw off all sentiments of Humanity and are pleased with those Tragical Spectacles which Nature shrinks at and abhors Thus did Adonibezek cut off the Thumbs and great Toes of seventy Kings and made then feed at his feet and eat the crumbs which fell from his Table Sesostris King of Egypt was of the same cruel Temper He delighted to hear the Kings whom he had conquered groan as they drew his Chariot And did not Lysimachus laugh to see Telesphorus whose Ears and Nose and Lips he had cut off bemoan himself in his tormenting Cage in which he barbarously expos'd him to be seen as some strange Creature The like might I tell you of Cyrus and Cambyses of Nero and Caligula of Domitian and Decius But how remarkably did God punish these and many other cruel Men Did not Cambyses who murdered his Wife and his Brother and slaughtered his Nobility for nothing and cut off all the Syrians Noses fall by his own Sword and his merciless Army eat one another in Aethiopia As they did to others so did God requite them He abhors their Tyranny and insatiable thirst after Blood And his permitting them to punish others will not acquit their Spight and Malice their Rancour and Spleen their Rage and Cruelty in doing of it These are sins which proceed from their own corrupt Nature their perverse Will and free Choice and not from any inevitable Necessity or irresistible Force imposed upon them by Almighty God He tempteth not any man to sin James 1.13 saith St. James He being Holy Just and Perfect cannot seduce man to that which is sinful and concur in the evil of his Actions He withdraws his Grace which softens and restrains the Heart and for want thereof the Heart is hardened as the Earth is by the Sun when its softning moisture is exhaled and drawn up by it And leaving Man to himself thus hardned he is then drawn away with his own Lusts and chooses wills and commits sin for which he is justly accountable And such mens malicious and revengeful Acts are highly offensive and displeasing unto God for

Imprimatur C. Alston R. P. D. Henrico Episc Lond. à Sacris Novemb. 4. 1690. A SERMON Preach'd to the Protestants OF IRELAND IN THE CITY of LONDON At St. Helens Octob. 23. 1690. BEING The Day Appointed by Act of Parliament in IRELAND FOR AN Anniversary Thanksgiving For the Deliverance of the Protestants of that Kingdom from the Bloody Massacre begun by the Irish Papists on the 23d of October 1641. By RICHARD Lord Bishop of Killala Printed at the Earnest Request of many of the Gentry of Ireland LONDON Printed for Robert Clavel at the Peacock in St. Paul's Church-yard 1691. 2 CHRON. xxviii 9. Behold because the Lord God of your Fathers was wroth with Judah he hath delivered them into your hands and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up to Heaven WHEN the Royal Tribe of Judah did highly offend and displease Almighty God when the many signal Mercies and Favours which he had bestowed upon them could not oblige them to obey his Laws and keep his Commandments he afflicts them with many and great Judgments to see if that could reduce them to Obedience He had long waited for their Conversion and sent his Prophets early and late to admonish and forewarn them of their danger He courted and allur'd them with Temporal Blessings and promised them a perpetual continuance of his Favour But when all these Methods proved ineffectual and nothing could work upon them he then showr'd down the Vials of his Wrath and Indignation Beside their great and deserved Sufferings mentioned in other places this Chapter tells you that God delivered them into the Hands of a Forreign Prince who smote them and carried a vast Multitude of them Prisoners to Damascus This was a very great and a heavy Punishment to be forced from their plentiful Habitations to live in Exile and Bondage poor and unpitied groaning with the weight of their uneasie Chains and languishing in dark and loathsome Dungeons But when even this could have no influence upon them he afflicts them with a Domestick and Intestine War Their own Brethren rose up against them Verse 6 and cruelly slaughter'd a Hundred and twenty Thousand in one day who were all Valiant Men. A sad and dismal sight to see so many weltring in their blood The Greatest and most Honourable Courtiers were then also kill'd and Two Hundred Thousand Women and Children were led Captives to Samaria Thus dangerous and fatal is it to provoke and incense the Lord. This Punishment did far exceed the other The Wounds which we receive from a Friend's Sword are most painful and tormenting Psal 55.13 David says Had it been an Enemy I could have born it but it was thou mine equal and acquaintance The Laws of God and Nature are more violated by Domestick Feuds and Treasons than by Forreign Quarrels and Invasions And none more rigid and unmerciful than those of our own House and Country This was evidently seen in the Cruelties of the Men of Israel who not only kill'd such a prodigious number of their Brethren and took much Spoil from them Verse 15 but brought away many Thousands of them and their Children naked and barefoot feeble and wounded to be their Bondmen and Vassals And so merciless and severe were they in all respects that a Prophet is sent to reprove and rebuke them who with undaunted Courage stands at the head of their bloody Troops and cries out Behold because the Lord God of your Fathers was wroth with Judah he hath delivered them into your hands and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up to Heaven In which you may observe First God's delivering the men of Judah into the hands of the men of Israel Secondly The Reason of it because he was wroth with them Thirdly The Prophet's Reproof of the Cruelty of the Men of Israel for slaying their Brethren with a Rage that reached up to Heaven First God's delivering the Men of Judah into the hands of the Men of Israel The whole Scripture doth abundantly declare how merciful and gracious God is how slow to anger and how unwilling to punish But when his Mercies are slighted his Favours rejected and all his Invitations and Threatnings are vilified and contemned he then exerts his Power his Veracity and Justice and makes himself terrible to the Children of Men by throwing down his Judgments upon them Here you see the Men of Judah were given up That Tribe which was to be eternally famous by our Saviour's Birth that very Tribe did he suffer to be thus severely punished Whence 't is evident that God exempts none but whosoever sins shall be punished That Nation or Family that offends God and runs into open Hostility against him shall suffer If he spared not Judah none must hope for Pardon and Immunity And if you search the Divine Annals you 'll find that when-ever they wallowed in Sin and slept in security then did God rouze them with the noise of War and brought Devastations and Desolations upon them He surrounded them with Enemies on every side and did by them lash them in when they ran into Rebellion against him And if he used them thus if he spared not the Natural Branches take heed lest he spare not you for thus will he deal with all who will not be reformed He will withdraw his Protection and leave them to themselves and let their Enemies invade their Houses and ruine their Country of which the many Conquests in Judea and the Dispersion of their Tribes over all the Earth is a remarkable and dreadful Example The Psalmist tells us Psal 34 7. The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him and delivereth them But they who will not fear him shall have no such ministration and attendance Their Guardian-Angels remove as they did from the Temple before Titus sack'd Jerusalem when as Josephus and Eusebius tell us a Voice was heard Let us depart hence and they were left to themselves and lay open to the Assaults of their Enemies and were then soon ruin'd and scatter'd up and down the World near two Millions of them being destroyed in sour Years Eleven Hundred Thousand fell in the City Ninety Seven Thousand were taken Prisoners and Thirty of them were sold for a Peny Thus lamentable and dreadful is the Condition of that People who are forsaken of the Lord who are left void and destitute of his Protection I will forsake them and hide my face from them and many evils and troubles shall befal them so that they will say in that day Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not amongst us Deut. 31.17 Beware then of driving God away from you where he withdraws and absents himself no good thing can continue While we are his People he will be our God but no longer If we renounce our Allegiance to a Mortal Prince he 'll soon with-hold his Favours from us and Correct us according to the nature of our Crimes And