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n for you. The open your cars; the Lord open your eyesi. Lord fill us with the Spirit of watchfulness; for " Behold^ he cometh with clouds, and every ej'e shall see htm. mid ihey al^o which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth »hall wm] because ofi taja. Even so. Amen.*' 1199 aHi< DISCOURSE VII. THE CiirSE JlSU the MMEDY or irtELAVD'5 EVIL coimmos- RKV.IX. so, SI. Ami the rrtt of tfm »»<■« it^kh were twi Wkd *v '*«* piagu&^^i repmttd pf^'c/thc te^rks of thtirhands^ . .. ^4X/ ^A^;^ jA«wir/ w>r wortkip dmii, mtd ithU qfgoM, OiKf «/cxcv-t Qfidhrayt, artdttotK, <ittd qf uxtod : v:hich neilfter €an sec, mr htar, nor walk : neither frpfnted . I /Aey t/ihdr mwdcrs, ttor of tkeir winrrra, nwr of tkdr farmcothn^ mr</ tbdrtficfi^t. The prcECnt condition of Ireland ia Avery re- »ptx-(, pliyvicfthinonil, and reliijiouB, is so appalling to every eiiltghtcncd mind, and £0 grievous to every cliaritable heart, ftnd wiihal ro TliII of alann to tlic wcU'bciDg cf the wliolc civil estate <rf the empire, as to make it every man's imperative duty, according to his gift, to brin^ oounsel and help to those who arc hont'stly engaged m tlie work of ministering to her relief, and finding out remedies for her discasci^. Tu which office beinj;; L V now called by the desire of the Tlibcmian Society, 1200 lUtLAXDS bVILCOWntTIOV. who hiivc long 3vih1 '/eailouxly IjAtxjured in her behalf, and with xll my heart conscoUDg, 1 pray the Lord in his threat goodness lo endow cue wiUi uuderstandiogf of bui> Divine providence, and wu- dom from abo^c, rightly to a]>prclicad and truly to express the mind of lii» Spirit couccming tiu9 matter, vihich lictb so near to every humane and to ever)' Christian heart. I will not cccdpy the time, which is precioui. in the description of tliat troubled and disordered condition, which it requireth twenty thousand armed men to rcprc^ia; nor recount thoMscxccHa and enormities of ever)- kind with which tfatt pablic pa|>en( for many years have been tilleil ; nor narrate what with luy own eye?t 1 have M-en^ and with niy own ean* beard, uf their ignoranco and sni^erfltitii^n, while I pursued my tract of ob- scrratiog from hamlet to hamkt, and (lom cabin to cabin, through the northern and eastern pn^* vince^ of Ireland, partaking the hearty and lib&ralji wolotniLOorher people, whereof ibi; rcrnenibfubco, doth now fill my soul with resolution to aay and do this day for their «ake whatet^er tbe Lord may enable me. For it is well known by all who have any knowledge of the condition of tbia poor and.! wretched