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A84600	The prisoners praises for their deliverance from the long imprisonment in Colchester. On a day of publique thanksgiving set apart for that purpose by the gentlemen of the committee of Essex, who for their fidelity in serving their country were surprised by the enemie at Chelmesford. In a sermon upon the sixth, seventh, & eighth, verses, of the CXLIX. Psalm. / preached at Rumford Septemb. 28. 1648. By Samuel Fairclough, pastor of the congregation at Ketton in Suffolk.	Fairclough, Richard, 1594-1677.	1650 (1650)	Wing F108; Thomason E589_4; ESTC R206306	32,215	40

THE PRISONERS PRAISES FOR THEIR Deliverance from their long Imprisonment in Colchester On a day of publique thanksgiving set apart for that purpose by the Gentlemen of the Committee of Essex who for their fidelity in serving their Country were surprised by the Enemie at Chelmesford In a Sermon upon the sixth seventh eighth verses of the CXLIX PSALM Preached at Rumford Septemb. 28. 1648. By SAMUEL FAIRCLOUGH Pastor of the Congregation at Ketton in Suffolk EZRA 9.8 9. We were bondmen yet our God hath not forsaken us in our Bondage but hath extended mercy to us in the sight of our enemies and hath given us a reviving PSALM 102.19 20. God looked down from the height of his Sanctuary from heaven did the Lord behold the earth To heare the groaning of the Prisoners and to lose them that were appointed to death That they might declare the name of the Lord in Sion and his Praise in Jerusalem LONDON Printed by John Macock for Lodowick Lloyd and Henry Cripps and are to be sold at their shop in Popes head Alley 1650. To the Right Worshipfull Sir William Massam Barronet Sir William Roe Knight Timothy Midleton John Eden Robert Smith Col. Thomas Ayloffe Arthur Barnardiston Samson Sheffeild Major Langley and Robert Crane Esquires The Gentlemen of the Committee of Essex that for their sidelitie in the Service of their Country were surprised by the Enemie at Chelmsford and imprisoned in Colchester GENTLEMEN I Conceive it will not be accounted any presumption to present that unto you which without injustice and breach of promise I cannot detain from you for howsoever when I heard you had designed me to this solemn Service of being Gods mouth unto you on the day of your publique Thanks-giving the consciousness of mine own weakness caused me to entertain the message with fear yet when you were pleased to give life and incouragement to this plain and unstudied Sermon First by your cheerfull and affectionate attention in hearing and then by your earnest importunitie That it might be made publick when you had heard it I must confess I was overcome contrary to mine own inclination to promise that if my reverend Brother who joyned with me in the work did send his Sermon to the Press before that mine in due time should follow after in performance whereof and in answer if not satisfaction to your desires therein I have tendred it unto you without addition or alteration of one materiall passage that was then delivered unto you I was intended to have added a Doctrinall Explanation of the remaining part of the Psalm with Scripture Resolutions to some Questions that may serve to be obvious therein before this mangled and imperfect peece had come to your hand but upon the advise of some godly judicious friends I have suspended the same conceiving it better to speak enough then to speak all accept it therefore as a testimonie of my complyance rather to your pleasures then mine own will who am not so great a stranger to mine own weakness as to think any thing of mine worthy of publike view wherein if mine obedience shal appear better then my sacrifice yet this is my comfort That the same candor of Spirit and ingenuitie that put me on the Service and gave so undeserved approbation unto the weak performance Knows also how to pardon my weakness and imperfection with favorable acceptations then which indulgence as when I reflect upon my self I dare desire no more So when I look upon you I can hope no less All that I would further say unto you you shall receive at large expressed in the Book which I will not anticipate by any earnest solicitation of your forward mindes to raise up themselves by the reading of it to wel-grounded determinations and constant resolution dayly to act and practise accordingly only this I must add That the Subject is so excellent that it is as worthy of your dayly remembrance and deepest consideration as my Pen is unworthy of so excellent a subject and withall That as your desire of publishing of it hath obliged me to present it to the world so hath it engaged you also to walk more answerable to the Intents and directions of the same before the world The Discourse is yours the Duty therein is yours and my uttermost Indeavours Service and Prayers are yours which shal speak that unto God for you which to avoyd the appearance of flattery I dare not speak unto you The most high God that hath highly honored you with his highest dispensations enable you al joyntly and severally with his grace and blessings to honour him again with your highest prayses and thanksgivings which shall be the constant Prayer Of the lowest and most unprofitable of all Christs Servants SAMUEL FAIRECLOUGM THE PRISONERS PRAISES FOR THEIR Deliverance from their long Imprisonment in COLCHESTER PSALM 149.6 7 8. Let the high Praises of God be in their mouthes and a two edged sword in their hands To execute vengeance upon the heathen and punishements upon the people To binde their Kings with Chains and their Nobles with Fetters of Iron SO great and thick is the cloud of Interpreters commenting upon this Psalm that instead of inlightening Introdu they darken the Text for the Occasion Analysis Argument and Scope is rendred by them so various and different as that it would swallow up the whole time alotted to both our exercises to rehearse their opinions to dispute their grounds and to make choyce of the best amongst them I shall purposely wave them all and only hint unto you that wherein they all concur viz. that this Psalm is one of them which they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gratulatory Circles where by the cast of your eye upon it you may perceive the Centre in the middle the fift verse to be the Glory of God the circumference on all sides the Praises of God beginning and ending with Hallelujah the several verses as so many radii or right lines Piscator Mollerus either ascending from the Centre of divine Goodness to the Circle of the Churches Praises holding forth the Beams of Gods Mercies to his People or else descending from the Circumference of the Churches Praises to the Centre of divine Love expressing the Peoples duties to their God Observe the words of the Text with their relation to the Hallelujah in the end of the Psalm and what I have said will be manifest to you they containing these two generals First The text analys'd A prescription of duty to be done Secondly A description of the duty how it is to be done 1. The prescription of the duty to be done is the high Praises of God 2. The description how it is to be done in all the following words to the end of the Psalm where we have First The Instruments Secondly The Execution The Instruments by which the high Praises of God and to be performed are two First The Mouth that they may be expressed verbally

by making joyful and perpetual confessions professions and declarations thereof to your brethren and the Congregations of his people that all you fathers make them known to your children and they also make your deliverance and praises to be remembred by future generations This is punctually prescribed to be observed in uttering praises for deliverances from bonds and imprisonment Psa 107. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness viz. for being the Author of their liberty and declaring his wonderful works in their deliverance to the children of men which also is in like manner observed in Peters praise for his escape out of prison Act. 12. where besides the thankful confession of it to God Vers 17. he both declares it to the Congregation of Saints himself and also requires the Church to make relation of it to others and especially to James and Iohn who being publique persons he knew would cause the praises of God to be remembred and celebrated therefore in all the assemblies of the Saints wheresoever they came in conformity to whose practise let me exhort you also to go tell your Iohns and Iames and other brethren how great things God hath done for you in this your enlargement so that as the Spirit of God in your very case requires Psal 102. 18 19 20 21. it may be written for the generations to come and the people that shall be created may praise the Lord for you and with you saying God looked down from the height of his Sanctuary from Heaven did the Lord behold the Earth To hear the groaning of us Prisoners and to loose us that were appointed to death That we might declare the Name of the Lord in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem When the people are gathered together and the Kingdoms to serve the Lord. Secondly Heighten the verbal expression of your praises 2. By Commemoration unto God by a thankful Commemoration of Gods great mercy in your deliverance between the Lord and your selves the practise whereof I would have you learn from the Psalmist Psal 136. where he praiseth GOD with high praises First for the work of Creation unto the tenth Verse and then for the deliverance of his people from the Egyptian bondage and thraldom Vers 18. In both which he heightens the praises of GOD these two ways First divides the total sum of GODS goodness into the several parcels and particular remarkable passages of his providence therein Secondly He multiplies and reiterates the expression and attribution of his praises according to the nature and number of the particulars observed in his antecedent distinction this is the method he observes in the first part of the Psalm unto the tenth Verse where he praiseth God for works of Creation dividing the mercy and multiplying the praise according to the number of the special Attributes and Actions of God observed therein First he observes the attribute of Goodness of God and then praiseth him for that Oh give thanks unto the Lord because he is good for his mercy endureth for ever Then observes him as God of Gods Vers 2. and praiseth him for that by it self Oh give thanks to the God of Gods for his mercy c. Then as Lord of Lords Vers 3. Then takes notice of his wonderful Power By diviving the mercy That alone doth great wonders Vers 4. Then of the attribute of his Wisdom in making the Heavens Vers 5. And having thus observed the distinction of Attributes in God and multiplyed Praises according to the number of them he then proceeds to the division of the total of his work into the principal parts of it and multiplies his Praises according to the number of them As first His stretching out the earth above the waters Vers 6. Then the making great Lights Vers 7. The Sun to rule the day Vers 8. The Moon and Stars to rule the night And as he observes this method of division of the mercy of Creation and the multiplication of praises for it so in praising God for their deliverance from bondage and their slavery in Egypt which is more properly your case he first in the beginning of each verse doth distinctly observe the several parts and circumstances of their deliverance as that he smote the first-born of Egypt and brought Israel from amongst them and with a strong hand overthrew Pharaoh and smote great Kings and famous Kings Sihon King of the Amorites and Og King of Bashan and unto every one of these particulars adds a particular reiteration of the praise of God for the fame in the end of each verse still inculcating and concluding That his mercy endureth for ever which is written for your learning and instruction that you also in praising God for your liberty should particularize the total sum of your safety and then to multiply and reiterate the expression of your praises accordingly And multipliing the praise Come therefore and sing unto the Lord a new Song and praise him this day in the Congregation of Saints and with good Ezra Heman and Asaph Ezra 3.10 11. Praise ye the Lord after the Ordinance of David King of Israel singing together by course praising and giving thanks unto the Lord your God because he is good for his mercy endureth for ever To the God of Gods that stood by us when all other comforts sailed us For his mercy endureth for ever To the Lord of Lords that hath subdued our Enemies under us For his mercy endureth for ever That rescued us from anger and rage of the multitude when they first apprehended us at Chelmsford For his mercy endureth c. That preserved us in the long march from Brantree to Colchester For his mercy endureth c. That suffered not our Enemies to do us any harm For his mercy c. That turned their hearts to be civil to us For his mercy c. That secured us from the bullets that were shot through our chambers For his mercy c. That made our society so comfortable whiles we were in custody For his mercy c. That did provide for us meat and drink plentifully when our Enemies starved For his mercy endureth c. Who by his Spirit stirred up so many to pray for us For his mercy c. And in his faithfulness answered those prayers For his mercy c. That caused our Enemies to give us life when they yielded themselves to death For his mercy c. That after so many weeks imprisonment brought us home with Honor Safety and Freedom For his mercy endureth for ever Thus if you shall begin to particularize your mercies and then proceed in multiplying your praises you will raise the expression of them to be high praises of God in your Mouths verbally unto which the Text requires another and higher expression of them to be added Namely An actual raising them in your lives The real expression of praise heightened with a two-edged sword in your hands which two-edged sword in your