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A30388	The life of William Bedell D.D., Lord Bishop of Killmore in Ireland written by Gilbert Burnet. To which are subjoyned certain letters which passed betwixt Spain and England in matter of religion, concerning the general motives to the Roman obedience, between Mr. James Waddesworth ... and the said William Bedell ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.; Bedell, William, 1571-1642. Copies of certain letters which have passed between Spain & England in matter of religion.; Wadsworth, James, 1604-1656?	1692 (1692)	Wing B5831; ESTC R27239	225,602	545

on the 26 th of December Mr. William Bedell the Bishop's eldest Son preached on S. Stephen's last Words which afforded proper matter for their meditation who were every day in expectation when they should be put to give such a testimony of their Faith as that first Martyr had done And on the second of Ianuary which was the last Sunday of their imprisonment Mr. Clogy preached on S. Luke 2.32 33 34. During all their religious exercises their keepers never gave them any disturbance and indeed they carried so gently towards them that their natures seemed to be so much changed that it lookt like a second stopping the mouths of Lions They often told the Bishop that they had no personal quarrel to him and no other cause to be so severe to him but because he was an Englishman But while he was in this dismal Prison some of the Scots of that County that had retired to two Houses that were strong enough to resist any thing but Cannon and were commanded by Sir Iames Craig Sir Francis Hamilton and Sir Arthur Forker now Lord Grenard finding themselves like to suffer more by hunger than by the Siege that was laid to them made so resolute a Sally upon the Ir●sh that they killed several took some Prisoners and dispersed the rest so that many Months passed before they offered to besiege them any more Among their Prisoners four were Men of considerable interest so they treated an exchange of them for the Bishop with his two Sons and Mr. Clogy which was concluded and the Prisoners were delivered on both sides on the 7 th of Ianuary but though the Irish promised to suffer the Bishop with the other three to go safe to Dublin yet they would not let them go out of the Country but intended to make further advantage by having them still among them and so they were suffered to go to the House of an Irish Minister Denis O Shereden to whom some respect was shewed by reason of his extraction though he had forsaken their Religion and had married an English Woman he continued firm in his Religion and relieved many in their extremity Here the Bishop spent the few remaining dayes of his Pilgrimage having his latter end so full in view that he seemed dead to the World and every thing in it and to be hasting for the coming of the Day of God During the last Sabbaths of his life though there were three Ministers present he read all the Prayers and Lessons himself and likewise preached on all those days On the 9 th of Ianuary he preached on the whole 44 th Psalm being the first of the Psalms appointed for that day and very suitable to the miseries the English were then in who were killed all day long as Sheep appointed for Meat Next Sabbath which was the 16 th he preached on the 79. Psalm the first Psalm for the day which runs much on the like Argument when the Temple was defiled and Ierusalem was laid on heaps and the dead Bodies of God's servants were given to be meat to the Fouls of Heaven and their Flesh to the Beasts of the Earth and their blood vvas shed like Water and there vvas none to bury them Their condition being so like one another it vvas very proper to put up that Prayer O remember not against us former iniquities Let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us for we are brought very low Together with the other Let the sighing of the Prisoner come before thee according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to dye On the 23 d. he preached on the last ten Verses of the 71. Psalm observing the great fitness that was in them to express his present condition especially in these Words O God thou hast taught me from my youth and hitherto have I declared thy wonderous works now also when I am old and gray headed forsake me not And on the 30 th which was the last Lord's day in which he had strength enough to preach he preached on the 144. Psalm the first appointed for that day and when he came to the Words in the seventh Verse which are also repeated in the eleventh Verse Send thine hand from above rid me and deliver me out of great Waters from the hand of strange Children whose mouth speaketh vanity and whose right-hand is a right hand of falshood He repeated them again and again with so much zeal and affection that it appeared how much he was hasting to the day of God and that his Heart was crying out Come Lord Iesus come quickly how long how long and he dwelt so long upon them with so many sighs that all the little assembly about him melted into Tears and lookt on this as a presage of his approaching dissolution And it proved too true for the day after he sickned which on the second day after appeared to be an Ague and on the fourth day he apprehending his speedy change called for his Sons and his Sons Wives and spake to them at several times as near in these Words as their memories could serve them to write them down soon after I am going the way of all flesh I am now ready to be offered up and the time of my departure is at hand knowing therefore that shortly I must put off this Tabernacle even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me I know also that if this my earthly House of this Tabernacle were dissolved I have a building of God an House not made with Hands eternal in the Heavens a fair Mansion in the New Ierusalem which cometh down out of Heaven from my God Therefore to me to live is Christ and to dye is gain which encreaseth my desire even now to depart and to be with Christ which is far better than to continue here in all the transitory vain and false pleasures of this world of which I have seen an end Hearken therefore unto the last Words of your dying Father I am no more in this World but ye are in the World I ascend to my Father and your Father to my God and your God through the all-sufficient merits of Jesus Christ my Redeemer who ever lives to make intercession for me who is a propitiation for all my sins and washed me from them all in his own Blood who is worthy to receive Glory and Honour and Power who hath created all things and for whose pleasure they are and were created My witness is in Heaven and my record on high That I have endeavoured to glorifie God on Earth and in the Ministry of the Gospel of his dear Son which was committed to my trust I have finished the Work which he gave me to do as a faithful Embassadour of Christ and Steward of the mysteries of God I have preached Righteousness in the great Congregation lo I have not refrained my Lips O Lord thou knowest I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart I have declared thy faithfulness and thy

of Grace where he reduceth the whole practice of Christianity unto three Heads of living Soberly justly and Godly This last directing our carriage towards God the midle most towards our Neighbour and the foremost towards our Selves Now since this is a direction for our whole Life it seems to me that we have no more to do at any time but to conn this Lesson more perfectly with some particular application of such parts of it as are most suitable to the present occasions And as to Sobriety first under which the Vertues of Humility Modesty Temperance Chastity and Contentedness are contained since this is a time wherein as the Prophet saith The Lord of Hosts calleth to weeping and mourning and pulling off the Hair and girding with Sack-cloth you shall by my advice conform your self to those that by the Hand of God suffer such things Let your apparel and Dress be mournful as I doubt not but that your Mind is your Dyet sparing and course rather than full and liberal frame your self to the indifferency whereof the Apostle speaketh In whatsoever state you shall be therewith to be content to be full and to be hungry to abound and to want Remember now that which is the Lot of others you know not how soon it may be your own Learn to despise and defie the vain and falsly called wealth of this World whereof you now see we have so casual and uncertain a possession This for Sobriety the first part of the Lesson pertaining to your self Now for Iustice which respects others and containeth the Vertues of Honour to Superiors discreet and equal government of Inferiors peaceableness to all Meekness Mercy just dealing in matters of getting and spending Gratitude Liberality just Speech and desires God's Judgments being in the Earth the Inhabitants of the World should learn Righteousness as the Prophet speaketh Call to mind therefore and bethink you if in any of these you have failed and turn your Feet to God's Testimonies certainly these times are such wherein you may be afflicted and say with the Psalmist Horrour hath taken hold of me and Rivers of Tears run down mine Eyes because they keep not thy Laws Rebelling against Superiors Misleading not only by Example but by Compulsion Inferiors laying their Hand to them that were at peace with them unjustly spoiling and unthankfully requiting those that had shewed them kindness no Faith nor Truth in their Promises Judge by the way of the School that teacheth Christ thus are these his doings as for those that suffer I am well assured I shall not need to inform you or stir you up to mercy and compassion That which is done in this kind is done to Christ himself and shall be put upon account in your reckoning and rewarded accordingly at his glorious appearance The last and principal part of our Lesson remains which teacheth how to behave our selves Godly or religiously to this belong First the Duties of Gods inward Worship as Fear Love and Faith in God then outward as Invocation the holy use of his Word and Sacraments Name and Sabbaths The Apostle makes it the whole End and Work for which we were set in this World to seek the Lord yet in publick affliction we are specially invited thereto as it is written of Iehoshaphat when a great multitude came to invade him He set his Face to seek the Lord and called the people to a solemn fast So the Church professeth in the Prophet Isaiah In the way of thy Iudgments Lord we have waited for thee the desire of our Soul is to thy Name and to the remembrance of thee With my Soul have I desired thee in the Night yea with my Spirit within me will I seek thee early In this publick Calamity therefore it is our duty to turn to him that smiteth us and to humble our selves under his mighty Hand to conceive a reverend and Religious fear towards him that only by turning away his countenance can thus trouble us against that of Man which can do no more but kill the Body Again to renew our love to our heavenly Father that now offereth himself to us as to Children and to give a proof of that Love that we bear to our Saviour in the keeping of his Sayings hating in comparison of him and competition with him Father Mother Children Goods and Life it self which is the condition and proof of his Disciples and above all to receive and to re-inforce our Faith and Affiance which is now brought unto the tryal of the fiery Furnace and of the Lions Den O that it might be found to our honour praise and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. In the mean space even now let us be partakers of Christ's Sufferings and hear him from Heaven encouraging us Be thou faithful unto Death and I will give thee a Crown of Life Touching Prayer we have this gracious invitation Call upon me in the day of trouble and I will hear thee the example of all Gods Saints and of our Saviour in his agony to this belong the humble confession of our Sins with earnest request of Pardon the complaint of our Misery and danger with request of succour and protection we have besides the intercession of our Advocate with the Father the cry of the innocent Blood that hath been cruelly shed and the Lords own interesting himself in the cause so as we may say with the Psalmist Arise O God plead thine own cause remember how the foolish Man yea the Man of Sin reproacheth thee daily Forget not the voice of thine Enemies the tumult of those that rise against thee encreaseth continually That Psalm and many others as the 6 13 35 43 71 74 79 80 88 92 94 102 115 123 130 140 142. do give Precedents of Prayers in such times as these and the Prayer of Daniel and Ezra 9. of Asa and Iehoshaphat 2 Chron. 14. and 26.12 The Stories of David's flight before Absolom and Iehoshaphat's behaviour when the Enemies came against him of Hezekiah's in Sennacherib's Invasion Isa. 37. and the whole book of Esther are fit Scriptures now to be read that through the patience and comfort of them we might have hope Now because we know not how soon we may be called to sanctifie God's name by making profession thereof you may perhaps desire to know what to say in that day You may openly profess your not doubting of any Article of the Catholick Faith shortly laid down in the Creed or more largely laid down in the Holy Scriptures but that you consent not to certain Opinions which are no points of Faith which have been brought into common belief without warrant of Scriptures or pure Antiquity as Namely That it is of necessity to Salvation to be under the Pope That the Scriptures ought not to be read of the common people That the Doctrine of Holy Scripture is not sufficient to Salvation That the Service of God ought to be in a Language not understood of the people That