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A85350	Good nevves from all quarters of the kingdome; particularly from Gloucester. The more strange for the noveltie; first printed, and at that time when the adversary was storming that citie; and yet more strange, for its antiquitie, because assured us by a word, more stable than the earth or heaven; and by a letter of ancient date, sent to Hezekiah King of Judah. Wee have the same assurance also touching a strange destruction to the wicked, specially to those princes all, who have filled the land with bloud, that those shall not dye the common death, nor be visited after the visitation of all men, because they have done more wickedly then ever any princes before them. ... Published for the comfort of all the Godly, in all the quarters of the world, by speciall licence from their Court-booke, September 12. 1643.		1643 (1643)	Wing G1054; Thomason E250_9; Thomason E250_10; ESTC R212532	20,215	10

to Prayer as his manner was Lord sayes he I pray thee turn the Counsell of Ahitophel into foolishnes 2 Sam. 15.31 No sooner asked but it was done The Lord defeated the good Counsell of Ahitophel 2 Sam. 17.14 good to bring about the horrid designe against David the dethroning of him and when he saw his Councell was not followed wee know what followed He teareth h●mselfe in his anger saith Bildad but his application was wrong his own Counsell cast him downe c. Job 18 4.7.8 The Conclusion then stands firme Prayers are a godly Mans Confidence as before expounded he is assured fully these will wheel all about turn the Scene where now we see nothing but drawne swords bathed in bloud the end shall be gladsome a glorious deliverance at the last The poore People have put up Prayers to their Father they shall be delivered out sustained in or preserved by the Judgement For the Devourers mouth which seemed to swallow-up did carry Jonah safe to land I said preserved by the Iudgement delivered by that which seemes to the eye an ●…ter destruct●on A few were saved by water 1 Pet. 3.20 That water which drowned others saved a few I know it does relate to Baptisme but we may apply it to the waters of affliction wherein the wicked are drowned but the Righteous are saved The Lord will have respect to the Prayers of his servants 1 King 8.28 which they put up unto Him day and night I will make a short account of a rich Treasury I could say as much of Prayer as is said of Faith By prayer Abraham obtained as much as he desired So Isaac so Jacob Looke how wide Faith opened their mouths so they were filled By prayer Moses tyed Gods hand Let me alone Moses sayes God No but he would not A poore weake man overcomes the mightie God Moses did more then Ioshuah did Josh 10 12. he commanded the Sunne and the Moone which is very notable Moses commanded God He was pleased to be commanded so Isa 45.11 to tell his People how commanding a thing Prayer is It is the most efficacious of any thing in Heaven or Earth It has the quickest motion and as quick a returne I meane still the prayer of the destitute a people loose from and forsaken of all humane help for their prayer is powred forth now The eye is single towards God stedfastly set Heaven-wards The extremitie is great the Adversaries pride at the highest peg the people of God at the lowest eb in a perishing condition Refuge faileth they are importunate they will give God no rest then God hearkens and heares then the return is quick and speedy For there is no help on earth Now mark it evermore He shall send from Heaven and save me sayes David Psal 75.3 in his Mictham words worthy to be written in golden Letters when there is no help in earth He shall send from Heaven and save mee The Churches confidence for ever I will skip over a large Chronicle and observe onely one prayer there King Hezeckiah is greatly distressed A proud Adversary has begirt the Citie round And now There is but one thing remaines which the King can doe for his securitie and that he does he falls downe upon his knees Spreads the Letter the rebukes the blasphemies the great straights he and his people were in all this he spreads beford the Lord and he calls-in for help sends Messengers to Isaiah tells him there is but one way to take a sure way to goe to God by Prayer O let us not neglect that way Wherefore lift-up thy Prayer for the remnant that are left 2 King 19.4 Sith there is but one way left open let us presse-on in it and weary the Lord with importunitie Now what sayes the Lord That which thou hast prayed to Me against Senacherib King of Assyria I have heard 2 King 19.20 There was a quick Returne and the execution is as quick for the next Newes we reade is And when they arose early in the morning behold in the Camp of the Assyrians they were all dead corpses Vers 35. The time would faile me else I could tell you of a Thundering Legion That a whole Army was like to perish for want of water Nothing remained then but Prayer and to prayer they went Prayers reached Heaven presently opened the Clouds so as they powred downe raine in abundance Though the foole makes but a mock of Prayer as if it were like his an abomination a mock-Prayer yet I could tell you the Adversary has been so wise and knowing touching this matter that she has professed she feared the prevalency of Prayer above what a mighty Army could doe more the prevalency of one man of whom you might say Behold he prayeth then the power of an Army of many thousands To draw-up toward a conclusion Prayer does all at home and abroad in private affaires and in publique It keeps the house it locks the doores it makes two of one minde in an house it blesseth the children it makes all things thrive there it feeds the horse plowes the ground houses the corne makes all things prosper What Then the man may be lazy the while No that cannot be it makes a man most carefull and conscionable in the use of all meanes though he stayes and bottoms himselfe upon none his rest is upon God alone in Christ there his Prayer fixeth So for the Private For the Publique now see how prevailing and serviceable this Ordinance is it binds Gods hand when the sword is drawne it sheaths it againe it stops the mouth of that Devourer it binds Kings in chaines and Nobles in fetters of iron it makes warres to cease and lets the oppressed goe free it limits proud wrath it sets unto it its bounds as to the raging Seas So far and no farther But it never limits the Holy one of Israel It ingages God to every busines and ingageth the heart to trust in Him and so there is an omnipotency in Prayer c. The servant of the Lord writeth upon every thing Askt of God for what soever is not so Asked cannot come to him as a Blessing and the gift of God And if it be a Nationall Blessing for that his mouth is widest open he is no body for himselfe but as the Church may prosper this he calls Naptali Gen. 30.8 the child of my wrastling for with the wrastling of God fervent strong Prayers hath he gained this blessing And as it is in the purpose of his heart to seek God still so he knows God heares Prayers still i.e. gives gracious returnes unto them The Lord has spoken good words and comfortable and they keep-up the Spirit of prayer alwayes so that his servants cannot be discouraged and faint in their minds Aske what you will and it shall be done Joh. 14.13 15.7 O what unspeakable grace is this His servants aske nothing but according to their

Fathers will in reference and submission thereunto And it is their confidence 1 Joh. 5.14 that their Father heareth them And if they know this That they are heard in whatsoever they aske then they know they have the Petitions they desire of Him We must marke this with all observation it will resolve us fully in all that follows Thus and thus it has fallen out to the Church in the North thus in the South and so in the West and is not all this a great disheartning to a praying People No The contrary rather all this puts heart into them makes their prayer more lively and servent It is with these servants as it was with their Master the Lord Christ the sharper the Agony Luke 22.44 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the more earnestly intended stretched out are the prayers But I will answer first to our Common Prayers whereto we exspect so present answer for we must note that I am to speake here specially to those that pray in Prayer are the poore of the flock a destitute people in the enemies account whom the Lord appearing in his Glory Psal 102.16,17 as now he does and he will be more glorious every day does heare alwayes even to their will and weal both whereof anon To our more common Prayers first for we pray now And doe we expect that God should come-off roundly with us and answer all at the first Have wee come-off roundly with him in point of obedience and good service I beleeve the most upright amongst us cannot say Yes Well then and doe we looke that God should turn to us the face presently and Answer us in every thing when we have been so narrow-mouth'd in asking so straight-hearted in beleeving so slack in obeying turning the back upon God so long and perhaps yet longer even at this present time Regarding iniquitie in our hearts even now when we would have God regard our Prayers And would we be regarded Expect we that God should regard our Prayers now Wee might expect rather that God should strike us dead upon our knees and that He has not done it should be matter of wonder and praise both Has not God waited when man would turn and will not man be content to wait patiently when God will turn to him Surely they who Pray in Prayer James 5.17 indeed are a Praying People these are a waiting People They can continue on their knees or sit downe astonished not wondring that God do's not answer them in every thing but rather that God do's answer them in any thing when they looke into themselves and upon prayer as a prayer onely and no more but a dutie which they have formed by their owne strength And yet God is the hearer of Prayers has heard their Prayers and given a gracious return to them from time to time so as they can say they never sought God in vaine To look no further back now than into these three yeares by-past up to this present day What wonderfull Providences Marveilous rescues from the mouth of the Lyon and paw of the shee Beare Admirable deliverances strange discoveries What were all these but Naptalies all the child the fruit of my wrastling does these praying People say ●b But what will they say to these particulars These discomfitures in the North and these in the South and West What will they say to Bristoll where was their God then These mad-men will goe neare to say these are their Naptalies too the fruit of their wrestlings of their groanes and strong cryes Ans Yes indeed they will say so and be confident in what they say though their eares are too chaste to heare these Blasphemies I will begin where the Rimer begins with the North and so goe compasse and yet end presently That bright Starre there the Lord Fairfax hath shone gloriously does shine notwithstanding all the forces of New-Castle all the fraud treachery of the Father and the Sonne to force out that light yet that light doth shine and its lustre is set-forth by all this force and fraud and thereby made more glorious And what is all this but a Naptali the fruit of the Churches wrastling with their God for and in behalfe of his servants there and here We must not passe over lightly how gloriously God has been and is seen in the North an bearer of Prayers there and here How has the Lord bent the hearts inclined the soule of the people to his Cause What favour has He shewen his destitute people in the eyes one of another England lifted up the hand to the most High God for Scotland now Scotland for England They will joyne hand in hand To stand fast in one Spirit with one minde striving together for the Faith of the Gospel They will stand-up knit together all as one man against common Adversaries the Devill and his Hierarchy with his Brutish Pastors Two onely there were in the Assembly of Ministers who withstood this Covenant a proud man and as proud a Novice neither of them cleared in Judgement touching Popery and Prelacy twins by all that has been written done these foure I had almost said foure hundred yeares I will say fourescore we know them and we hope they know now themselves what spirit they be of The one a man of contention The other a childe who will learne to hold his tongue till he has learnt how to speake Pacata Britannia est England and Scotland these twaine once are one now sweetly composed in their God as a Citie Compact and at unitie with it selfe for they are in Covenant with their God and each with other I am as thou art my people as thy people 2 Chro. 18.3 All will stick together as one man to withstand this common Adversary What shall I say of this The tongue of an Angel cannot utter it But it is a Naptali the fruit of the Churches strong wrastling Thus has God don in the North as wonderfully in the South How has he got himselfe a Name made his Servant there a man of renowne even the Man of his Right hand But then indeed for I must speak all yet nothing to dishearten Prayer or to the Mans dishonour We fooles we cannot have a glorious Instrument but we must dote upon it We cannot have an excellent man to stand up for us but we will make a god of him The Lord God of gods saw this our folly and was angry and so when we would make man an Idol God would breake him to pieces And what is all this A Naptali a fruit of the Churches wrastling we shall see it more cleare anon But this is cleare now for now we are taught a great lesson To cease from man Isa 2.22 and To cleave to God There-on to bottom our selves and place our confidence And Bristoll too the impoverishing of that and doing more the forcing of that Citie so as never Citie has been so forced