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scripture_n	apostle_n	creed_n	faith_n	2,736	5	5.5105	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65560	A sermon preached Octob. 23, 1692 before His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and the Lords spiritual and temporal, and divers of the commons, in Christ-Church, Dublin by Edward Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross.	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1692 (1692)	Wing W1518; ESTC R24614	17,334	26

and are too much Gentlemen to practice all the Consequents of so Corrupt a Religion yet as to their Clergy let all men say what they will they are both Sworn to the very worst Principles of the Roman Faith and True to them in all those Ill Practices which such Ill Principles draw with them For instance There is not a Romish Priest in the World who has not in their Creed as much sworn to Believe and Teach that Point Ecclesia Romano Catholica extra quam non est salus That no Person out of the Roman Catholick Church can be saved as that Christ Jesus Dyed for our Sins And how far they practice it in pursuance of and agreeably to such Faith judge from that passage of no less a Man than the Great Cardinal Baronius who being to put an end to his Paraenesis to the State of Venice which yet never sorsook the Roman Faith only disobey'd the Usurpation and pretended Laws of the Church in punishing with the Temporal Sword an Ecclesiastic Miscreant or two concludes Doleo vehementer quod absque valete I am very sorry I must end this Letter without Farewel For saith he St. John the Apostle and with him all the Church justly adjudgeth those unworthy of Salutation who not communicating with the Roman Church Omnis penitus salutis sunt expertes have altogether forfeited all Salvation Now from him whom I know so certainly to believe me Damn'd that he cannot in Faith or Duty allow me a Good Wish I am unjust to my self if I expect a Good Office that is if I trust him And consequently if I trust any that will generally be govern'd by him Thirdly It is another Inconsistency for us to trust God will Deliver us from our Irish Popish Enemies and yet to maintain them in a Capacity to hurt us 'T is to desire for Trust includes Desire God should bestow upon us what we employ the most likely means we can to defeat Believe it the Irish Papists will mischieve us as soon as they can and if they are one moment innocent 't is as with some Kindred of theirs of another World so●e against their Will O let us not erre again our Old Error Let us not provide that still once in Thirty or Fourty Years Thirty or Fourty Thousand fresh English men must come over hither to find Untimely Graves Is there no Manure for the Land of this Kingdom but English Blood Do we find the Soil so Fertile as to answer the Cost of being so often thus fatned Pity ye Princes and Nobles of our Israel ye Heads of our Tribes and Cities as many as are here present Pity your Brave Countreymen Pity your Selves Pity your Ladies and Children Pity your Babes which are yet Unborn Pity All and Secure All. Resolve on Effectual Counsels Counsels and Provisions which may bear just Proportion not only to the Christian Trust which We Profess but to the Opportunity we Now Have Never must we of This Age expect the like Opportunity will recur to us And if a Price be put into our Hands and we have no Heart for it Remember what Character the Holy Ghost sets on us Prov. xvii 16. 'T is known I need not name it Lastly It is inconsistent to Trust in God for Deliverance from our Enemies that is for Preservation of the English Interest here and to Neglect the Proper Means of such Preservation Now when I speak of Proper Means I would be understood in a Moral Sense for as to Politick Means they are out of my Element Proper Moral Means hereto I take to be especially these following Vertues Publick Spiritedness Publick Sobriety and Zeal for the True Reformed Religion or if you please for the truly Old Religion namely the Holy Scriptures or the Sum of the Faith in them the Apostles Creed and Holy Life As to Publick-Spiritedness Let this Mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus Look not every Man Philip. ii 4 5. at his Own Things but every Man also on the Things of Others And remember it is the Character of the worst of Men in the Latter Days 2 Tim. iii. 2. That they should be Lovers of Themselves Now Lovers of Themselves can never preserve a Publick Interest Dum singuli pugnant emnes Vincuntur Which I am content to English While each looks but to One All are lost As to Publick Sobriety Let each of us be careful to maintain a Serious and Considerative Temper Attentive to all our Concerns of Soul and Body Abandoning the Airy Thoughtless Revelling Negligent Humour of the Age. Take heed to your selves lest at any time your hearts be over charged with Surfeiting and Drunkenness Luke xxi 34. Be Sober and Vigilant your Adversaries of all 1 Pet. v. 8. kinds daily walk about seeking to devour Let Luke xii 35. your Loyns be girt about and your Lights burning Remember the Inhabitants of Laish The Judg. xviii 7. People dwelt careless after the manner of the Sidonians quiet and secure and so they became an easie Spoil to Six Hundred Danites a Party perhaps not much more considerable than so many of our Choice and Well-Appointed Rupperees Finally As to Zeal for simple plain Christianity for in the Appendages and Circumstantials of it in fine Scholastick improved Notions Charity Peace and Meekness becomes us not Zeal It is needful saith St. Jude vers 3. to exhort you that you earnestly contend for the Faith once deliver'd to the Saints Once namely by Christ to his Apostles and by them and their Direction now extant in Holy Scripture Holy Scripture is the True Reformed the Truly Old Religion And I need not tell you what Enemies the Irish are to your Bibles Only give me leave to demand of the World a Reason Why Christian Communion should not be left at that Latitude at which Christ and his Apostles in Holy Scripture have left it Strictness in Manners and a Scripture-Latitude as to the Conditions of Church Communion will contribute more to the strengthening the English Interest in this Kingdom than all the Laws we can make without them And being that these soon resolve themselves into Holiness and Universal Christian Charity I must be bold to say We shall not easily find better Preservatives of our Church To this if Men Men would addict themselves And why should they not All Schisms would soon be at an End To Conclude I see not but these Vertues duly Practiced would Unite and so Secure us In the Practice then of them Let us Trust in that God who has Delivered us from so great a Death who doth Deliver and who on these terms will yet Deliver And be Thou O most Mighty God evermore the Deliverer of the English Nation Preserve all its Dispersed Colonies wheresoever upon the face of the Earth Unite us all to fear Thy Name Purge and Refine us to that degree That we may shine to Thy Glory and the Adorning the Gospel of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen FINIS