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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03809	A declaration of the Lord Deputy and Council, for setting apart Thursday the 14th day of October next, as a day of solemn fasting and humiliation throughout this nation, with the grounds and reasons thereof.	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1658-1659 : Cromwell); Cromwell, Henry, 1628-1674.	1658 (1658)	Wing I382B; ESTC R178630	5,691	13

without that grief and tenderness of Spirit vvhich became the followers of the Lamb the Lord Iesus VVhat panting hath there been amongst us after the dust of the earth as if all would not suffice for every man to take an handful VVhat labouring to load our selves with thick clay VVhat covetous and greedy heaping up wordly Riches without regard to be rich in good works rich in faith poor in spirit what seeking rather after a seeming then a real greatness rather to be great in the sight of men then in the sight of the Lord what resolving to get earth though with the loss of Heaven what oppressing the poor Inhabitant to ease and gratify the rich in the apportioning and applotting the publique burthens and taxes what depriving the poorer sort of the price and purchase of his blood and labour by hard and circumventing bargains insnaring agreements and yet that daughter of the horse Leach still crying give give VVhat divisions and breaches have there been amongst Brethren and how many sinfull consequencies of those divisions whispering slandering backbiting reviling and an anger which teares perpetually whereof God complaineth by the Prophet AMOS VVhat sinful compliances even of subordinate Magistrates Justices of the Peace Officers of the Army Ministers of the Gospel and others with the unfruitful works of darkness not onely omitting the due Execution of the good Laws concerning Reformation but too much patronizing wicked men in their evil ways for carnal ends by which means also that great work of our Generation in subduing the Irish Papists to the scepter of JESUS CHRIST and removing from them the occasions of sin in their usage of many barbarous and brutish customs hath been in all places obstructed and in most totally neglected How little have godliness and honesty been regarded by many Magistrates as if to see to these were not included in their Commission How little have many Ministers attended the catechizing the ignorant visiting the sick rebuking the profane instructing from house to house the due exercize of discipline and right administration of Sacraments whereby not onely the popish and profane have been more alienated than ever from the truths and ways of God but ignorance heresie heathenism and atheism increased and through long fasting from the Institutions of Christ many have lost their stomachs and some that very life which appeared formerly to act in them and others unworthily partaking thereof have been hardened and nuzled up in their evil ways and sealed up under wrath and condemnation How have Family duties in most places been neglected even to provoke the LORD to pour out his wrath upon them as upon the heathens that call not on his name VVhat infidelity and distrustfulness have prevailed in many spirits in relation to our late Supream Magistrate as if the Author of our mercies did not continue his cause the same if that eminent instrument were removed Though we have so many precious promises so many strengthening experiences as stays props to our hope even under the greatest shakings and many soverain Cordials to prevent fainting God not having left himself without many witnesses to his mercie even to this day of trouble and treading down which otherwise would have been indeed a day of grief and of desperate sorrow And how great hath been the Ingratitude and murmuring peevishness of others as if our mercies were not mercies because themselves were not the pipes of conveyance or because those waters came not so plentifully into their Cisterns as unto others These and such like sins as these seem stampt as it were on the face of this judgment and are to be especially eyed in the frown thereof And are they Christians are they men who are without the sense of these things Have we like sheep wandered from our Shepheard and from one another in this our sun-shine It is just for our God to send such a storm to drive us together and into his fold Have we played with the candle that burned so brightly among us consuming himself to guide and refresh these Nations or have we puffed at it it is just for God to put it out And doth not the LORD now call from heaven unto us as sometimes he did to backsliding ISRAEL Gather your selves together yea gather your selves search and sift your selves O Nation not desired before the decree bring forth which seems now to hasten to the birth before the day pass as the chaf before all your light and joy and peace and plenty be blown away by the blast of the Lords displeasure before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you before the day of the Lords anger come upon you And we can not forbear but call upon all the Lords people in this Land as MOSES sometimes did to the Israelites VVho is on the Lords side among you Consecrate your selves to day unto the Lord even every man by punishing and witnessing against sin in his son and in his brother and especially by doing execution upon it in himself That he may bestow a blessing upon us this day Let us with one heart and mouth say To us belongeth confusion of face to our Princes to our fathers and to our children because we have sinned against the Lord Let us bewail and repent of our former doings which were not good not onely by sorrowing for them for there is sorrow enough even in hell not onely by wishing them undone for so far even Iudas went but by true repentance from dead works turning again to the Lord to serve the living God Let all the Magistrates of the Land let all the Gospel-Ministers let all the Officers and Souldiers let both great and small renew their Covenant and engage their souls and give the hand unto the Lord and unto Vs who do stretch forth ours unto you saying Come and let us return unto the Lord for he hath torn and he will heal us he hath smitten and he will bind us up And for our further help both in returning to him and gaining some comfortable evidence that he doth accept us and will heal us It is ordered That Thursday the fourteenth day of October next be kept as an Holy day of Fasting and Prayer unto the Lord That thereon we may afflict our souls before him and lament not so much the fall of our Crown and chief ornament as our sins that caused it That the eyes of all our Tribes as of one man may be toward the Lord to beg mercy for his poor Church here on earth scattered over the face of the whole world That the Rightousness thereof may go forth as brightness and the Salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth and particularly for that part thereof which his own Right-hand hath planted in these Nations That he would extend peace unto it like a River and glory like a flowing stream and to that end That he would make his face to shine upon his Servant whom the good hand of his providence hath now set over us that as he hath called him to this great and weighty work so he would carry him through it all his dayes in the everlasting Armes of his power and goodness to the glory of his own name and the joy of these Nations that so he may prove the Minister of God indeed to us for good for all manner of good natural moral civil Spiritual That he would bless his HIGHNESS Councils in these three Nations and cloath them with a spirit sutable to their stations and all other inferior Magistrates That the mountains may drop down new wine and the hills flow with milk that the mountains may bring forth peace unto the people and the little hills by rightousness That he would bless his HIGHNESS Forces both at home and abroad by land and sea with the continuance of a spirit of love and faithfulness and with good success in all their lawful undertakings That he would establish and strengthen his confederacies with other Nations so far as may tend to the propagating the Gospel and to the preservation and prosperity of the poor Protestants in other Countreys That he would set up burning and shining lights in all the dark corners of this land and bless the labours of those whom he hath already set and made faithful to the bringing in and building up of many souls through the fellowship of the gospel in an everlasting fellowship with the Father the Son by the communion of the holy Ghost And it is further Ordered That the Sherifs of the several Counties in this Nation do forthwith after receipt hereof distribute the said Declarations to all and every the Ministers within their respective Balywicks to the intent that seasonable and publick notice may be given unto the People by the Ministers in every their respective Parishes and Congregations upon the Lords-day preceding the said fourteenth day of October And the said Ministers are also to read this Declaration unto the People at their being assembled upon the said Fast-day appointed to be celebrated For the better observation whereof the servile works of mens ordinary Callings are to be forborn upon that day And all Sherifs Mayors Governors of Garrisons Iustices of the Peace Constables and other Officers Civil and Military are to take care that the said day be solemnly kept and observed Dated at the Council-chamber in Dublin the 24. day of September 1658. W. Steele Can● R. Pepys Miles Corbet William Bury