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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87152	True religion in the old way of piety and charity. Delivered in a sermon to the Lord Major and Court of Aldermen of this city of London, at their anniversary meeting on Munday (commonly called Easter-Munday) at the Spittle, 1645. / By Robert Harris B D. pastor of Hanwell, Oxon. and a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.	1645 (1645)	Wing H878; Thomason E277_4; ESTC R200002	31,992	44

is our Mediator and he loves the persons of the Elect as much as ever he did he delights in mercy as much as ever therefore let this encourage us to goe to God in all our afflictions and distresses whether they are personall or whether they are publike 1. For our personall defects and our personall distresses let us goe to God as Cornelius here does Cornelius he is in a streight and it was in a point of great concernment he must resolve one way or other off or on either be for this Christ or against him Cornelius knew not which way to resolve he prayes therefore he desires God that he would enlighten him that he would direct him Oh! let us doe the like in these distressed times when there be such divisions and distractions in the Church of God and amongst the people of God that a poore simple body knowes not what is right and what is truth and what is not knowes not which side to adhere unto Some call him this way and some call him that way and another sayes this is right and you must goe this way if ever you will be saved and another speaks quite to the contrary What now should a poore man doe Doe as Cornelius did goe unto God alone pray fast importune him desire him that he will teach thee that he will resolve thee desire him that he would send some Peter to thee some Preacher some Divine or other that may settle thee and confirme thee in the way that thou shouldst goe Thus if we doe God will be the same to us that he was unto Cornelius God heard him and God will heare us too though he doe not send an Angel from Heaven as he did to him yet he will send some Peter he will send some direction whereby we shall receive some satisfaction at least for those things that are simply necessary and fundamentall he will discover so much unto us as shall be accepted and as shall guide us unto his Heavens This is his promise Psal. 25. he will guide the meek in his way and he will teach sinners the way and he will shew unto them his salvation and in John 7.17 sayes our Saviour He that will doe the will of God he shall know the doctrine whether it be of God or no If a man in humility of spirit and in sincerity and truth of heart will goe to God for direction as Cornelius did resolving with him I and mine are here before God and whatsoever God shall speak unto us in his ministery we are ready to doe it and to follow it If any man will doe thus it is certaine that God will give him a resolution and a settlement and such a settlement as shall be acceptable as we said before and shall give satisfaction to his soule What I speak of this particular because the very case leads me to it in my Text that we may say of all other things too Carry all thy feares to God and all thy sorrowes to God and all thy scruples to God acquaint him with thy case and beg help and strength from him he is able he is ready to heare Yea but will he heare me Yea thee he will heare thee Oh! but my prayers are weak and poore He is a gracious God he passes by infirmities doe what thou art able to doe and he is as ready to help thee as Cornelius 2. What we say for private men that we may say much more now in the publike Case when it comes to publike prayer and to matter of a publike concernment here we should be encouraged to goe to God Is God so ready to heare prayer does he so graciously answer and accept of poore and weak prayer Then I beseech you why should not we goe to God in respect of the Kingdome in respect of the Church and in respect of the present condition that we lye under now Oh! let us all set a praying pray home the King pray downe Antichrist pray up the Lord Christ into his Throne pray against the sinnes of the Land that they may be removed and all those obstructions that doe hinder the successe of our prayers from day to day for certainly there are very strange and great obstructions that lye in the way otherwise it were not possible for our gracious God that is so ready to heare the Petitions of one poore man to stand out so long against the suits and petitions of all the people in a whole Nation the obstructions are great pray all these out of the way Of these I will instance one or two I will leave the rest in regard of my haste One maine thing which probably hinders our successes in prayer is the blood that lyes upon the Land that is a heavy thing that lyes heavy upon the heart of the Land 'T is said 2 King 24.4 that God would not pardon the blood that Manasses shed in Jerusalem he filled Jerusalem and the Land from corner to corner with innocent blood God sayes the Text there would not pardon this sinne Nay this sinne lived some successions after that Manasses was dead Oh! this sinne this sinne threatens this Land of ours this blood that lyes upon the Land the blood that was shed heretofore in the dayes of Queen Mary that innocent blood that hath been shed since by this unhappy difference that is amongst us Oh! the Sea of blood that runs through this Land who must be responsall who must be answerable for this this is a great sinne that obstructs our prayers much It behooves us Beloved to doe as God ordered them in Deut. 21.8 when there was innocent blood shed and the murderer could not be found out then the neighbouring Townes they must goe forth they must slay a Beast offer a Sacrifice wash their hands pray to God Oh Lord be mercifull unto the Land and unto our Cities lay not to our charge this blood So must we doe in this case Oh Lord be mercifull unto this poore Land almost drowned in blood doe not charge upon us this blood lay not to our charge this innocent blood but accept of a Sacrifice and an atonement That is one thing we must pray against as a maine obstruction And another is this non execution of Justice let David in 3 Sam. 21. let David I say wait and stay and pray from yeer to yeer for the removall of the stroke that was then upon the Land untill such time as execution be done upon the bloody house of Saul there will be no cessation of that stroke and of the famine that was then upon them but assoone as ever that was done and justice executed presently the face of the State was changed and the Lord shewed himselfe a reconciled God Oh! let us pray here againe that God would stirre up many a Phinehas in this age and that he would give the spirit of Phinehas to those that be in authority that they may doe execution and so the plague may