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A36821 A sermon preached before the King, in Christ-Church, Dublin, on Ash-Wednesday 1689 by Fr. Edmond Dulany ... Dulany, Edmond. 1689 (1689) Wing D2517; ESTC R17101 15,952 24

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and Concupisence of Terrene Treasurs which we know are Instable and Transitory why do we pretend to rest our selves upon that which we see is in continual Turbulent Motion towards its own destruction and the Ruin of those that Rely upon it or why do men Confide in or Trust to that which they finde by daily Experience to deceive and betray Velut nubes pertransiit salus mea saith holy Iob The true pattern of patient Princes describing his own misfortune and sudden Fall from the Glory of the Throne to the misery of the dunghill Job Cap. 30 v. 15. my prosperity my Riches and all my glory hath passed away like a cloud The comparlson and Simile cannot be more proper having for an Author the holy Ghost which moved the Organs of this great Saint to Express it a Cloud then in it's Effects and Nature is the Right Symbol of Human prosperity and the perfect emblem of the Great Men of the Earth For as the clowds mitigate the rayes of the scorching Sun and refreshes sublunary things apt to suffer by the over-much heat of that Planet so Powerful Men are the defence of those that are under their protection from the heat of injury and oppression a fertil clowd showring recreates the barren and dry ground and revives decaying flowers and fruits A Prince by the influence of his Favours gives vigor to and revives his Subjects drooping under the yoke of adversities A clowd kindled often darts in the air terrible torches and wild flames This represents an angry Potentate of the Earth when he terrifies with a fire cast from his eyes and with lightnings from his Countenance A clowd armed with unusual hail storms tramples oppresses innocent trees vines plants and is not this the figure of an Usurping Tyrant threatning without reserve desolation slaughter and slavery and when a Cloud roars in Thunder and discharges dreadful flashes of Lightnings against which humane providence can make no defence shall not we say This resembles the wild resolutions of such a Monster in his decrees against Loyal Subjects for adhering to God's Anointed their lawful and natural Prince But what is the nature and substance of this Cloud that works such prodigious effects A little vapour raised from the low region of the earth Low Countreys and originally extracted from the tribe of Pools and Sinks elevated chiefly by its own levity to the second region of the Air By Revolution and Rebellion and what prop sustains it there nothing but a Pillar of slender Air which is no solid Prop and how long can it last or pretend to subsist no longer than it is calm weather about it the first blast of a contrary wind that blows towards it will drive dissipate and destroy it This is the true figure of the Power and Greatness of the Ambitious of the Earth saith holy Gregory a Cloud that vanishes of a sudden and hath not a monent of assured permanence they are high and sublime raised above others to the second region of the air but the foundation that supports them is weak and unstable one blast of popular commotion or misfortune breaks them one fit of distemper levels them to the ground and brings all their Greatness to their primitive dust in the grave Salus ergo ut nubes transiit quia peccatorum gloria quae alta est Lib. 20. M●r. fixa non est Ab exemplo List your eyes D. C. to view that ever cursed impious and unnatural Absolom famous in infamy swelled with hellish pride and with sacrilegious arms embarking himself in the ocean of boundless Ambition to Usurp his Fathers Throne ready to Imbrew his inhumane hands in the Blood of the best of Kings and eviscerate the kindest of Fathers Observe a thrice perjured people seduced by a Nobility drunk with the love of dissolution and riot and poyson'd with the venom of Disloyalty and Rebellion suckt from the corrupt principles of a restless Religion setting him up a Mimick King under the Royal Canopy to receive homage from Vassals tribute from Subjects and Embassies from foreign Princes He models Governments promulges Laws establishes Pragmaticks punishes rewards exalts deposes impoverishes enriches condemns pardons Unfortunate man what do you do how far will your Ambition dragg you against a King that derives his Power from Heaven and not from Men you turn your sacrilegious arms against a Father you devise your stratagems to attain to his Crown you arrived to the height of iniquity treading under foot the Laws of God and Man and Nature you are unfortunate whether you win or lose if you prevail you are impious if you miss you are infamous if you overcome you shall ever be accurst to have gained a Victory more dishonourable and inglorious than the loss can be if you lose you shall ever lye under the confusion just judgment will bring upon you for entring into so unjust and unnatural a War if you vanquish you forfeit the best Jewel Nature could set in your breast which is the gratitude you ought a good Father if you be subdued your loss will not be only of life that is too small a satisfaction for your guilt nor of your credit or reputation for we see how little you value it but of your Soul and eternal Salvation to expiate in everlasting flames the enormity of your execrable Ambition Behold Christians O just Judgment of the Almighty This Parricide unnatural Miscreant in the midst of his vast and ill-grounded hopes carried on more by the violence of his wicked designs than the force of the Beast he rid on was lest hanging upon a Tree by the hair of his head and pierc'd through the heart with three Javelins and covered with wounds over all his Body he fell to end the infamy of his actions in the catastrophe of a deserved dismal death Imprecations are not justifiable in a Pulpit yet it were but Justice O Heavens Let the Enemies of my Lord the King become as the Child Absalom and all that rise against him unto evil 2 Reg. 18. that Equals in Impiety should be soon equalled in punishments that a re-accession to his Throne may be facilitated to the Just and Godly David But this with submission to thy holy will be said O Lord whose hidden decrees permitting Impiety to rule we are to receive and accept of without repining in perfect resignation knowing that what thou ordainest is most available to us and that thou art merciful and good to make us happy even by our adversities which thou canst turn to our advantage when we truly submit our selves in conformity to thy Divine pleasure Now what we are to gather from the fatal course of Impious Absalom to our purpose is the impiety of irregular Ambition Lib. 2. Reg. cap 18. Drogo and the inconstancy of the Greatness promised by this false world Illo suspenso inter Coelum Terram mulus cui insederat pertransit saith the sacred
preservation of his most S M and the Prosperity of his Affairs to avert from him and us the Fatall blow Threatned by a proud Usurping Enemy whom we need not fear if we pacifie the wrath of God by true Pennance and Repentance and an amendment of our lives it is the best Preparation we can make to have good Success in War Let every man therefore begin the Lent from his peace made with God in the holy Sacrament of Pennance Let us Resolve to obey those that are in Power over us to undergo hardship and labors and when occasion offers to overcom or dye It was the Maxim of wise Heathens to preserve Kingdoms and Cities Parere magistratibus patientem esse laborum et in praelio vincere aut mori as Plutarch tells us of the Lacon●ans how much more ought it to be the Rule of Christians who are in Conscience oblidged to obey their King and defend his Crown and Dignity to the last drop of their Blood and to the loss of their Lives and Fortunes It were to be whished that such as are Members of our Army had as strong a Sense of Honor and Conscience to discharge their duty with Courage Care Vigilancy and Circumspection as they have itch of promotion which sort of Ambition as it is Commendable in a Soldier that Strives by his Actions to make himself worthy of preferment so in those that Act Sluggishly like Mechanick mercenaries it is no less infamous then Damnable whereas faults Committed in that duty do tend to dishonor God to Dethrone the King to Expose him to the Fury of his Blood-thirsting Enemies to betray the Country and to banish Religion I wish all Officers did first Conceive a horror against any thing that may bring them under such black Hellish Charracters and then make the Impression upon those that are under their Command to prevent losses that may not be retrieved and Lessen the occasions of so frequent Sessions of Courts Martial as we see whose punitive sentence perpetually brands the accused with an infamy if not Really deserved at least Commonly believed and Suspected And to accomplish all things that may Earn a Blessing to our Cause S M. let Ambition Partiality and double dealings by your Commands be Banished from the Court Let not the Mighty men of your State make your Laws a Spiders Webb to Catch and Devour the small Flies and let the Bigg ones pass untouched Lest the Cry of Orphans the groans of Widdows and the Blood of the Injured poor should call for Vengeance to Heaven and Obtain it Let not Lent be Converted to a Carnaval in the Houses of great Men nor the Tables be Loaden with Superfluous Dishes to feed Lackeys and Foot-boys even to Gluttony and the Poor of Christ Languishing in the Street starving for Want of Bread Let not the Taverns be Crowded from Morning to Night and the Churches and Chapels of God left waste let Equity and Justice govern the Bench without Partiality or Respect of Persons Let Conscience overule the Covetousness of Exacting dealers Let modesty in Apparel spare somt●ing to cover Christ naked in the persons of the poor Let Blasphemous Tongues learn from just Chastisements to bear Respect to the holy name of God. Let publick punishments suppress the Infection of publick scandals let Christian Discipline put an End to Antichristian dissolution which Raing'd these many years among us and Finally let the love of Heaven proscribe and banish from our Hearts the disordered love of Creatures of vain Dignities Afflicting Riches and Inconstant pleasurs that Piety Ruling our Actions here in Grace may lead us to Triumph in Everlasting Glory which I wish your S. M. c. and all your Faithfull Subjects FINIS ERRATA Page three line 1. read Thesauros ibid l. 11. r wild beasts pag. 4. l. 32 instead of then r. but. pag. 7. l. 11 r. and still do labour pag. 8 l. 27 r. 4th psalm pag. 10 l. 11 r. substance ibid. l. 12 r. hunger ibid. l. 23 after defence put a point pag. 11 r. in the margin praesentia et dormierunt in ipsis preasentibus ibid. l. 16 A. A. signifies Christian Auditors pag. 12 l. 4 r. thorn pag. 13 l. 19 after Ruine put a period ibid. l. 26 r. Caresses ibid. l 34 r. pour