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A grain of incense or Supplication for the peace of Jerusalem, the church and state. / By J.R.
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Reading, John, 1588-1667.
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A Grain of Incense OR SUPPLICATION For the Peace of JERVSALEM THE CHURCH and STATE By J. R. PSALM 122. 6. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee JAMES 5. 16. Pray one for another that yee may be healed the effectuall fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much London Printed Anno Dom. 1643. A Grain of Incense OR SVPPLICATION For the Peace of Jerusalem the CHURCH and STATE O Eternall God and most gracious Father abundant in mercy and truth slow to anger and of great patience towards miserable sinners whose death thou desirest not but their conversion We humbly acknowledge That not onely this heavy rod of Iron wherewith thou dost now chastise us in a dreadfull and devouring Civill War is due untous by reason of our great and grievous sins but also all those plagues which thou hast sealed up in the Book of thy Laws against obstinate and impenitent sinners For we have broken all thy holy Commandments in the thoughts of our corrupted hearts words of impure tongues and works of our sinfull hands and that not in ignorance of thy holy will that we might expect but few stripes but even in the cleerest light of thy Gospel long bestowed upon us nor out of infirmity onely that we might thence pretend to some excuse but out of wilfull presumption we have cast thy Laws behinde us contemned thy Messengers and stopped our ears to those gracious Conditions of mercy and peace which thou hast with infinite mercy and long patience sent to us by their Ministry warning us of these very Iudgements which now are come upon us O Lord our sins have like a filthy Leprosie over-spread every part and faculty of our bodies and souls so that we are become loathsom in thy sight a sinfull Nation a People laden with iniquity there is nothing sound nor sincere in us which sin superstition or profanation of thy holy Ordinances hath not polluted the vices and uncleannesse of other Nations have flowed in upon us As thou hast multiplied thy favours of peace and plenty upon us so have we our rebellions against thee and our impiety towards men so that even the righteous become a prey justice is turned into wormwood truth vanished oppression and rapine every where exercised and blood toucheth blood So that the cries of the injured and deep sighing of the oppressed daily ascendeth into thy holy presence to provoke thy justice and to solicite for revenge And if we should be charged by none other witnesses our own consciences convince us if we might be our own judges our hearts condemn us So that we cannot but expect that thou who art the great Iudge of all the world shouldst now be avenged on this sinfull Nation But yet the Sanctuary door is not shut up yet thou who still warnest us by thy Messengers to return every man from his wicked wayes therein proferest mercy and free pardon to all those who shall so do Therefore though our sins testifie against us deal with us according to thy mercy Thou hast not in vain invited the heavy laden to come unto thee to call upon thee in the day of trouble that thou maist deliver them and they glorifie thee O Lord God of Truth who never failest in any of thy promises now ease us grouing under the heavy burden of our calamities now hear and have mercy upon us who call upon thee out of the deepest sense of our troublesse and helplesse perplexities and Lord make no long tarrying lest we be consumed by this fierre wrath which is come out of thy presence against us Wherefore should our adversaries rejoyce at our ruine seeing thy holy Name is called upon among us Wherefore should our insulting enemies say in our destruction Where is now their God their Religion who thus spoyl and destroy each other seeing thou hast given us a glorious light of thy Gospel that we might know thée O Lord when thou broughtest our Fathers from the kingdom of darknesse into thy marvellous light leaving many millions to this day in their sins and the region and shadow of death it was not because they or we to whom thou continuest those favours were better then others but for thy own Names sake and because thou hadst a favour to them and us O Lord let it not seem little unto thee That the paths of Sion mourn That our fields are waste That thy servants blood is openly shed That so many weeping Rachells in the losse of their dear children your out their afflicted souls before thee That so many helplesse widows in bitternesse of spirit bewail their murdered husbands That death is come up into our windows and palenesse hath possessed every face because fear horrour and terrible dread of utter ruine and desolation appeareth on every side Lord we have sinned what shall we say unto thee O thou preserver of man save onely pardon our sins We are guilty and have nothing to plead before thee but onely thine own mercy nothing to answer but that thy Christ hath answered for us O thou God of Truth who hast promised to hear and grant whatsoever we ask in his Name now for his sake forgive us now for thy wonted mercy sake look upon our afflictions cause the destroyers to sheath the sword again that it may not be extreme bitternesse in the end Correct us not in thine anger chasten us not in thy heavy displeasure lest we be consumed Thy mercy is not changed which wont to pardon and deliver thy sinning Israel when they cryed unto thée in their distresses and to be entreated of them when they sought thée and thy saving health though thou correctedst them with the rods of men thine ear is not heavy nor thine arm shortned Lord therefore in this Iudgement also remember mercy Lord hear the cries of thy faithfull servants calling on thée day and night and giving thée no rest untill thou repair let them through the merit and mediation of thy son Christ Iesus prevail against all the crying sins of this Nation Lord let thine arm help us vain is the help of man neither the counsells of the prudent nor any arm of flesh can save us thou onely canst thou onely art our refuge we have none other in heaven or earth to flie unto for deliverance Lord reject us not who trust in thée remove from us all those known and secret sins which separate betwéen us and thy mercies which have caused thée to take away thy Peace from us and féed us with the bitter fruits of our own inventions who loved not the blessings of peace and they are now far from us Give us true and unfaigned Repentance Humiliation and amendment from the first to the last that thy indignation may cease from us Heal our rebellions and back-slidings binde up the wounds which our unnaturall and unhappy divisions have made in this Church and State cure our distempers reconcile us one to another and all to thée in Christ Iesus give us grace to kéep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace Restore us the life of Religion beauty of holinesse mark of thy son Christs disciples badge of true Christians ornament of the Gospel and the happy condition of the primitive Saints Love and Charity restrain all those desperate spirits of Division which for our unthankfulnesse and surfeiting on thy blessings of peace thou hast justly permitted to come out of the bottomiesse pit amongst us give us in these dayes of our visitation a prudent knowledge of those things which concern our Peace Take away those fears and jealousies which now unhappily have armed every man against his neighbour Remove all those Schisms and Factions which any way obscure the Lamps of thy Tabernacle and the light of Truth Suppresse all the secret and professed Incendiaries who kindle sedition and endeavour to lay waste Cities and Villages and to even the Palace and Cottage in one common ruine Lord blesse thine Anoynted Servant our Soveraign Lord the King in the safety of His Royall Person Crown and Dignity in His gracious Consort and those hopefull Plants which thou hast set about his Table The Royall Issue Establish His Throne with Righteousnesse Give an happy Vnderstanding and Accord betwéen Him and His great Counsell the Parliament Counsell them with thy Wisedom let thy fear rest on them so that all their Consulations may be blessed that Truth Iustice and Peace may be restored and abundantly flourish amongst us again that we may make a right use of thy fatherly corrections by fearing thy holy Name detesting and forsaking our sins learning hereafter better to value the swéet and comfortable fruits of long Peace by a short want thereof and praising thée for thy clemency and tender mercy in the Congregation of thy Saints And now O Lord as thou hast commanded us we humbly intreat thée as for our selves so for thy distressed servants in Ireland Lord cover their heads in the dayes of Battle teach their hands to war and their fingers to fight leade their Leaders and counsell their Counsellors thou who canst make one to chase a thousand and as easily deliver by few as by many because thou onely art the Lord of Hosts the Battle is thine and thou only givest Victory unto kings Help them against their numerous enemies Take the Honour unto thine own self as is most due make it appear to all the world That thou never rejectest the petitions of humble and contrite hearts nor forsakest those who put their trust in thée Lord command their deliverance and ours Let us not be like that distressed woman so long languishing till all be spent on helplesse Physitians Let our miseries come speedily into thy gracious presence that touching the hem of thy Garment that tender mercy and compassion wherewith thou art clothed these issues of blood may spéedily be stayed O Lord encline thine ear and hear us O Lord consider and do it Lord hear our Prayers for them and theirs for us and both for thy beloved Son our blessed Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ his sake Amen FINIS