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A66362	Eight sermons dedicated to the Right Honourable His Grace the Lord Duke of Ormond and to the most honourable of ladies, the Dutchess of Ormond her Grace. Most of them preached before his Grace, and the Parliament, in Dublin. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Griffith, Lord Bishop of Ossory. The contents and particulars whereof are set down in the next page.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1664 (1664)	Wing W2666; ESTC R221017	305,510	423

right of the Church and I resolved and vowed that whatsoever I recovered I would by the grace of God wholly bestow it upon the reparation of the Church so that recovering it I should be not one penny the richer and loosing it not one penny the poorer And I desired nothing but what I conceived to be the right of the Church because I know God loves not to be honoured with unjustly gotten goods But now finding that as the Prophet saith I have laboured in vain and I have spent my strength for nought and seeing the partiality and injustice of men I will with patience submit my self to that strength which is beyond my ability to oppose and study to serve my God another way because I see that as David saith the sons of Zervia are too strong for me because we that were faithfull to our King were fleec'd and bareshorne and left poor and beggarly and they that served the Beast and adheared to the long Parliament and were arrant rebels against our late good King have got all our Lands and our Monies to make friends withall and to keep us still under hatches and so though nos fuimus Troes yet now they are the men and without envy let then enjoy their prosperity so they forsake their iniquity and repent them of their former impiety And so desiring you to bear with this my just defence I shall proceed in this discourse for none other end but to discharge mine own duty and for the good of your souls to avoid the just wrath of God for a sin so highly displeasing unto God and to that purpose I shal desire you to read the 2 Mac. c. 3. where you shall finde how that when Simon the mutinous traitor both to God and his Country had informed Seleucus King of Asia of the riches and the treasure of the Church of Hierusalem and incited him to seize upon it and he had sent Heliodorus his treasurer to fetch it and Heliodorus came like a Fox pretending it was to visit and to reform the disorders of Phoenice and Caelosyria but Onias the high Priest perceiving that the goods of the Church was his errand his countenance was quite cast down and the people not enduring sacriledge ran some to the Temple some to the City Gates and some gadded up and down the streets as frantick men like Bacchus froes and all lifted up their hands and eyes and voices unto God for the defence of his Church and God heard their cry and did help them For Heliodorus was no sooner entred into the treasury to take away the spoile but there appeared to him a terrible man in compleat armour of gold mounted upon a barbed horse that ran very fiercely at the Kings Treasurer and trampled him under-foot and withall there appeared two other men of most excellent beauty and strength whipping him so that he was carried out of the place speechless and without any hope of life untill God restored him upon the earnest prayer of the Priest and people And to let you see how dangerous a sin is sacriledge to rob the Church Act. 5.5 the end of Ananias and Sapphira can bear witness for though their death was the punishment of their lying yet all must grant they were drawn to that sin by the cord of sacriledge And if a greedy desire of with-holding that from the Church which themselves had given was sufficient to open such a window unto the Devil that he came presently to cast them as a prey to the Jaws of Hell how many foule sins do they commit and how many greivous plagues may they fear to fall upon their heads which take away from the Church that which they never gave Gen. 47.22 v. 26. And you may remember that when Egypt in the time of Joseph felt so extreme a famine that the fift part of the Land was sold to releive the Land yet the Patriarch in all the care that he had both of the Country and of the King to succour the one and to enrich the other never attempted the sale of the Lands of the Priests nor once to diminish any jot thereof And if the holy man in so great an extremity never ventured to take away the possessions of the Idolatrous Priests though it were to the releif of a whole Kingdome I wonder with what face dares any man in the world curtal the maintenance of Gods Church and take away those Lands and houses that by religious Princes and other pious men have been consecrated to Gods service But Foelix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum You might be happy if you would cast your eyes behinde you and by the examples of Gods judgments upon other sacrilegious persons learn to escape the punishments of sacriledge because they are all written for our instruction And we read that Celce the Constable of Gertrund King of Burgundy having under the authority of the King his Master enriched himself and enlarged his Territories with the Goods and Lands of the Church and being one day in the Church at his Devotion and hearing the words of the Prophet that proclaimed a woe to them that joyn house to house and land to land he suddainly shricked in the Congregation and cried out This is spoken to me and this curse is upon me and upon my Posterity and so afterwards died most miserably And we read in the Annals of France that although Lewis the Sixt surn●med the Great was once the Protectour of the Church and had caused the Count de Claremont the Lord de Roussi and other great men that had pillaged the Bishopricks to restore their robberies unto the Church again yet in his old age when he began to pull the Church he was sufficiently punished for it by the suddain death of his Eldest Son which was indeed the very staffe of his age though he was urged unto it with extreme necessity They that would see more examples of this kinde let them look into my Declaration against Sacriledge and Doctor Saravia's vindiciae sacrae translated into English by James Martyn And if for all this men will needs have the portion of Gods Church let them eat it with that sauce which God hath prescribed in Psal 83. and which like the Ieprosie of Gehezi wil stick to them and their Posterity for evermore 3. 3. Why these beasts were full of eyes before As you heard that these Beasts were full of eyes within and behinde so they were full of eyes before and so should we be And that is to behold and see 1. Praesentia the things that are present 2. Futura the things that are to come and must come 1. 1. To behold the things that are present As 1. The vanity of all things For the present things I shall onely leave to your consideration 1. The vanities of this life And 2. The uncertainty of our state And touching the first Saint Augustine saith most truly Si quid arrisisset prosperum

vengeance in his anger so when the Jews were grown incorrigible he saith Jer. 21.7 He will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their life and they shall smite them with the edge of the sword and shall not spare them nor have pity nor have mercy upon them and such a sin is murder and the shedding of innocent bloud whereof the Lord saith Deut. 19.13 21 Et vide Ezek. 8.17 18. Thine eye shall not pity him but life shall go for life And such a sin is the sin of Rebellion which is as the sin of Witchcraft and spreadeth it self like a Gangrene and infecteth many millions of men and therefore the resisting of authority deserveth more severity and less clemency than any sin as you may see it in the punishment of Corah Dathan and Abiram who in the judgement of God himself deserved no less than to be consumed with fire from Heaven Rebellion how horrible a sin or to be sent down quick to Hell which in the judgment of Optatus is so fearful and unparallel'd a vengeance shewing the transcendent odiousness of rebellion that the like cannot be found since the creation of the world because rebelling against lawful Authority is no less than fighting against the divine Majesty and therefore the most holy Saints of the Primitive Church that were most innocent in all their lives would notwithstanding suffer the most cruel death rather than they would resist this ordinance of God or otherwise if they had so impudently reviled their Heathen Judges and so rebelliously resisted their persecuting Kings as you see many have done of late against the most gracious Princes the Church had never canonized them for godly Martyrs but had registred them among the most wicked Malefactors 3. Contempt of the Priest was the last The third sin of the Israelites Ver. 10. but not the least sin whereby the Israelites lost the Lord when they hated him that rebuked in the gate and abhorred him that spake uprightly that is the Prophet or Preacher saith Cornelius à Lapide because the Jews had their Tribunals and Judgements in the gates of their Cities as Moses sheweth and therefore Jeremy Amos Deut. 21.10 and the rest of Gods servants sate also in the Gates as you may see * Jer. 17 19. Esdras l. 2. c. 8. to rebuke the wrong Judgements as St. Hierom and Lyra note and to speak uprightly that is Perfectum sanctum sermonem a perfect and a just Judgement as the Septuagint and Symmachus render it and this the people hated and abhorred which is the height of all iniquity to reject the Prophet and to exclude his counsel from our judgements Sinners that reject their Teachers and Pastors are incurable for as the Gout is the shame of the Physitian because he cannot cure it so this is the plague of the soul and a sin that is incurable for though a man commits many and great sins and leads a very dissolute life yet if he will dutifully hearken unto counsel and patiently bear with his rebukes there is great hope of his amendment but as the diseased that is deadly sick and yet like Harpaste that would not be perswaded that she was blind though she could see no more than a milstone will not believe that he is sick and cannot indure the sight of his Physitian runs on a pace to death without any hope of life so the Judges that hate the Prophets company and abhor the assistance of the Priests in their judgements as the Israelites now did and that sinner who doth hate his Teacher and shuns the society of him that seeks to save his soul have little sign of grace and as little hope of eternal life and therefore the Scripture describing the deadly estate of the most desperate sinners such as with Ahab had sold themselves to work wickedness saith they are like those that contend with their Priests Hos 4.4 of whom there is little hope and less good to be expected any waies for is it possible that a blind man should find his way when he beats away his Leader Or that a child should thrive when he bites and beats away his nurse that gives him suck So it is impossible that they should do well which hate the light or that they should ever learn any good which abhor the Teachers of all godliness Gem. de coelo l. 1 c. 22. Job 9 9. The Preachers like the Hyades Geminianus tells us th●t the Ministers of Gods word are like the Hyades whereof Job speaketh 1. Because the Hyades or Pleiades as we translate them are watry stars so called from their effects the word Hyades of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying nothing else but rain So the Pre●chers pour Respect 1 out the showers of heavenly doctrine upon the barren ground of our souls to make them fruitful even as Moses saith My doctrine shall drop as the rain Deut. 32 2. and my speech shall distill as the dew Respect 2 2. Because that as when the Pleiades do arise the daies lengthen the Sun is hotter and the Earth produceth more plentiful fruits so by the preaching of Gods word the light of truth is increased the heat of Christian love and charity is kindled and the holy fruit of all good works is increased Therefore if the Preachers be as the rain to make us fruitful as the light to direct our waies as our Fathers to instruct us and as the Angels of God to bring us into heaven as the Scripture testifieth that they are then I beseech you tell me what holy frui● what heavenly light or what Christian good can be in them that despise their Teachers and expell their fathers from their societies Yet this was the sin of the Israelites and I fear we cannot free our selves from it for how have they been used since the beginning of this Parliament Was not he most cried up that cried most against the Church and Church-men And men of no note became famous in the House by making invective speeches against the Bishops 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 4.13 Heb. 11.38 and 37. and he was deemed most eloquent that was most bitter against them and how h●ve they been handled ever since Voted out of all their means and not any thing left them to buy them bread graviora morte and being thus made as the filth of the world and the off-scouring of all things unto this day as the Apostle speaketh they are either cast with Joseph into the dungeon or driven to wander in desarts and in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth being destitute afflicted tormented And I may say of some of them with Jeremy Jer. 5.9 they that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets they that were clad in scarlet embrace dunghils they sigh and seek bread and have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve their souls Lam. 4 5. 1.11 And shall I not

Temples that belonged to these no Gods Delicta majorum immeritus lues Romane donec templa refeceris Horat l. 3. Ode 6. Aedesque labentes deorum fada nigro Simulachra fumo The which Ode that worthy and learned Imitator of this best Lyrick Poet thus excellently translateth in this elegant Lyrick Verse Roman resolve thou shalt desertless tast Sins scourge for vice of Predecessors past Untill thou dost again repair Decayed Temples and make fair The falling houses of the gods disgrac'd And cleanse their Images with smoak defac'd To think thee less than gods thy power commends Hence take beginnings hither aime thy ends The gods neglected did impose On sad Hesperia many woes Twice Pacorus and twice Manaeses hand Our inanspicious forces did disband Who with a plentious prey made glad To little chains new links did add And if by the judgment of this learned man they shall suffer for all the sins and offences of their Fathers and Fore-fathers untill they re-edifie the Temples and raise the flat-fallen houses of these gods and beautifie the defiled Monuments and Sepulchres of their Heroes and other noble persons that were dead What shame and what punishment do we deserve for suffering the Tombs and Sepulchres of our heroick Fathers and the Temples Houses and Altars of our good God and our Redeemer Jesus Christ to lye so waste so ruined and so defiled as they are here in this Kingdom of Ireland for I do believe that of about 100 Churches that our fore-fathers built and sufficiently endowed in the Diocess of Ossory there are not 20 standing nor 10 well repaired at this day Truly I have done my best beyond my ability let Demas and the detractors say what they please to repair the Quire of St. Kenny and I have privately vowed and publickly protested often and engaged my self to God to His Majesty and to the People and I am contented to be bound in a bond of one thousand pounds that if the Bishops Court and Freshford that were given to the Church and dedicated to God for the service of Jesus Christ shall be restored to the Church there shall not one penny or penniworth of all the rents and profits thereof be retained or transferred to me or any of mine but it shall wholly and fully be imployed and laid out for the raising and reparation of that Cathedral Church which the Lord hath now committed to my charge But if I shall still see as I have seen hitherto that Rebels and Traytors that have been if such as have fought under the Standard of the beast and Great Antichrist against their own King to bring him to be murdered may be so stiled shall be countenanced furthered and upheld to carry away and enjoy the Lands and Houses of the Church and so little regard had of that justice we owe to render unto God what belongs to God and less respect to the servants of Jesus Christ than to the followers of the Antichrist then seeing as the Prophet saith in vacuum laboravi I have laboured in vain I have spent my strength my time my means and my money for nought in seeking to bring to God what is Gods and to the Church what of right belongs unto the Church Liberavi animam meam and I hope I may freely turn the leaf and as God said of the house of Eli I said indeed that the house of Eli 1 Sam. 2.30 and the house of his Fathers should walk before me for ever but now saith the Lord be it far from me And seeing they had so far dishonoured him and so much prophaned his service it was just with God so to do And so I said indeed I would do my best and I would bestow as much as I was able and perhaps more than many would imagine to repair the Cathedral Church of St. Kenny yet now being disappointed of my hope and finding men preferring flesh and bloud before the dictate of the Spirit of God favouring those that have been rebels before such as are religious Seeing I cannot build the Church of Christ I have resolved to the uttermost of my power to overthrow the Synagogue of Satan that is to punish perjurers and such others high transgressors of Gods Laws and to leave the houses of God as finding my self unable to prevail to do therein any good wasted and ruined as they are And if this I cannot do but that Scelera sceleribus tuebuntur one false and perjured Jury shall be defended and protected and justified by another false Jury and one wicked oppressor excused by another the like oppressor or that the fear of great men will not suffer poor spirited Lawyers to afford us Law for any money then ad te domine clamabo that we can have neither truth nor justice in the earth But to proceed to shew the miseries of the Church of Ireland though it be a very lamentable thing and an unanswerable argument of the decay of Piety and of small Religion in the noblest persons to suffer the houses of God to lie as they do for hogs and other beasts to dig up the bones of holy Saints it may be the Fathers or Mothers of the now great Lords and Ladies of the Kingdom Yet as the Lord said unto his Prophet Ezekiel Turn thee yet again and thou shalt see greater abominations Ezek. 8.6 so I say to my Reader For 2. The great want of able Ministers in this Kingdom and why they are so scant 2. As God is without Churches for his people to meet in to serve him so he is without servants enabled to do him service to praise his name and to teach his people and to have Churches and no Churchmen is to no purpose But why have we not such Churchmen as are able to instruct Gods people I say it is easily answered that it is not so easie to get able worthy and sufficient Churchmen unless there were sufficient means and livings to maintain them for as Seneca truly saith Sublatis studiorum premiis ipsa studia pereunt where there is no reward for learning there will be want of learned men as one demanding why there were no Physitians in Lacedemon answer was made because there was no stipend nor allowance set forth for the Professours of that faculty but as Martial saith to Flaccus Sint Maecenates non decrunt Flacce marones Virgiliumque tibi vel tua rura dabunt But here in Ireland since Hen. 8. Why we want learned and painful Preachers here in Ireland overthrew the Abbies and Monasteries that were as Universities to breed Schollars and to send them forth to feed the flock of Christ and gave the Revenues thereof which were the Ecclesiastical Livings of the Church unto his Nobility and lay Gentry that spend the same in many places in hawking and hunting and perhaps in some other worser employments the Church of Christ wanteth Schollars and which is worse wanteth means to maintain those Schollars that otherwise would supply