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A67326
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A second Christian warning-piece wherein is shewed the first and chief cause of England's present misery, proved to be the chief magistrate's neglect, in not fully doing that work God hath commanded, that must yet be done, because God hath said it, before this nation can expect deliverance. Humbly presented to the Parliament.
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Wall, Thomas.
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Wing W487; ESTC R218348
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with your Honours be not the Physicians in God's hand to prevent it Now Right Honourable if something of this nature be not done for preventing the shedding of innocent Blood that if the Papists within us should rise or their Accomplices invade us from without the King's Majesty with your Honours would be pleased to make an Act that all Protestants now as was granted to the Jews in the days of K. Ahasuerus may without offence stand in their own defence in the preservation of the lives of themselves and their families in what manner your Honours shall think fit And this by God's Blessing will break the hearts of all Popish Plotters in their wicked designs who for madness instead of destroying Protestants like the enemies of Jehoshaphat will destroy one another O â—herefore that his Majesty with your Honours would remember to follow the Example of that wise and good King Solomon who first built the Lord's House before he built his own And K. David was grieved that himself should dwell in an House of Cedar when the Ark of God remained under Curtains Nehemiah could have no joy tho the Kings Cupbearer to see the City of Jerusalem lie waste If then the King's Majesty with your Honours would imitate these worthy Patrio's herein in seeking first the Kingdom of God and his Righteousness then all smaller things of Temporal Deliverances and outward Benefits shall be added Which God will still make good to all true Protestants if they prefer the Heavenly Jerusalem before their chiefest joy Psal 137. as was made good to Israel of old who were a Nation in the midst of Idolatrous Nations as the true Churches of God are now Holy Nations in the midst of the Nations And so long as Christians now as God's People of old do faithfully walk wiâ—h God in his true Faith and Worship they are said to dwell alone in respect of their Faith and Worship among the Nations Num. 34. 24. The want of these things now amongst Protestant Churches is proved by holy Scripture to be the same cause God is testifying to us as to Judah of old I have forsaken my House I have left my Heritage I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies Read Jer. 12 13. If there be not a speedy turning to the streight path of the Lord in executing Judgment and seeketh the Truth Jer. 5. 1. The deep sense of which may with the Prophet Jeremiah cause every true Christian to say O that my head were water and eyes a fountain of tears to weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people and that he had in the Wilderness a lodging-place that he might not behold the Sins bounding or the Judgments coming on the Land O then before it be too late that the King's Majesty with your Honours and also the whole Nation would lay these things to heart Seeing how unwilling the Lord is to destroy this Nation not only by discovering the Plots but also the Cause why God suffers them Now shall a Trumpet be blown in the City and the people not be warned Or is there any evil in a City to wit of punishment and I have not done it saith the Lord Hos 3. 6. Be wise therefore O ye Kings be instructed ye Judges of the Earth kiss the Son lest he be angry and ye erish from the way For he is the Prince of the Kings of the Earth who can only crown you with Glory which the Lord in his Mercy will bestow as he hath promised on all that love him and keep his Commandments Your Honours humble Servant in all Christian Duties THO. WALL