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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45790	Divine contemplations, necessary for these times. By H.I.	Isaacson, Henry, 1581-1654.	1648 (1648)	Wing I1057A; ESTC R222591	27,531	74

bee any longer hardned against each other a Kingdom divided against it self cannot stand but give us all the spirit of meeknesse Mar. 3.23 patience and brotherly love Take from us all self-ends and private interests that we may all unanimously seek thy glory and this Kingdoms welfare Give the King thy judgements O Lord Psal 72.1 and thy righteousnesse to the Kings Sonne blesse them the Queen and the rest of the Royall stem with all the graces of thy holy Spirit blesse the Fathers and Ministers of thy Word and Sacraments with zeal and piety Restore incorrupt Doctrine and holy discipline to the Church and in thy good time a setled and religious Peace to this dying perishing Kingdom Blesse all our Magistrates and Counsellours with wisdom knowledge and integrity blesse all thy people with true faith and obedience and grant us all high and low the spirit of unity and charity that we may agree in a blessed and acceptable harmony to praise thy holy Name for all thy mercies to us in Christ Jesus Amen Another O Lord Father of mercies the God of peace unity and love Psal 80.4 How long wee beseech thee wilt thou bee angry against the prayer of thy people How long will it be ere thou thou remove this unnaturall and execrable warre Look upon the afflictions of thy people give ear to the sighes teares and groanes of the poore and let the effusion of so much Christian blood move thee to pity Alas O Lord we acknowledge that this and other thy judgements are just punishments for our sinnes we have sinned we have committed iniquity we have despised and forsaken thee the fountain of life and our own happinesse and have waged warre against thee and thy commandments by our daily offences We have kept none of thy statutes which according to thy word by the Prophet hath brought the sword into our land to devoure us Isa 1.20 Yet thou O Lord in the midst of thy wrath remember mercy Hab. 3.2 Which that we may be capable of give us grace to call to our remembrance to confesse bewaile and forsake our transgressions Send into our hearts the spirit of grace and supplication that we may humbly deprecate thy just displeasure and cry unto thee and say Lord pity Lord save thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood and be not angry with us for ever Lord sheath this bloody and devouring sword and let us not fall as Saul did upon our own swords Command all those that minister occasions of warre to return to their own places that so by thy grace and favour through the merits of our alone Saviour we may again recover if it stand with thy good will and pleasure our lost happy and most desired peace and agree again as becometh Christians in unity of hearts and mindes to praise and glorifie thy holy Name for ever Amen In this time of unseasonable weather dearth and scarcity ALmighty Lord God which givest food to every living thing that coverest the heaven with clouds and preparest rain for the earth that commandest the clouds to send forth rain and again doest stop the flood-gates of heaven who at the prayer of thy Prophet Elias didst shut the cataracts thereof so that it rained not in three yeers space and didst again open them and the clouds did yeeld plentifull showers one for the peoples good the other for their punishment Wee confidently beleeve that thou doest what thou pleasest in heaven in earth in the sea and all places Wee thy poor distressed and miserable Creatures humbly acknowledge and confesse that wee have departed from thee and have not hearkned to thy word to walk in thy commandments Wee have spent the dayes appointed for thy seruice in idlenesse and excesse and neglected thy worship letting loose the reynes of the flesh to all uncleannesse Therefore that curse denounced in thy law for such rebellion hath befalne us Deut. 28.16 c. That wee should bee cursed in the city and cursed on the field in our store in the fruit of our body and of our land in the encrease of our kine and the fl●cks of our sheep And that the heaven over our head should bee br●sse and the earth under us ir●n And that the rain should come down till we be destroyed O Lord we have seen with ioy and comfort that in the former parts seaons of the year the earth was plentifully cloathed with fruits in abundance which filled us with hopes and expectation of a plentifull harvest and a numerous encrease of all things for the sustentation of man and beast But O Lord thankful hearts not accompaneing our joyful minds thou hast broken up the springs of the earth thou hast opened the windows of heaven and immoderate rains have fallen whereby the land hath been overmoistned the corn hath been depressed and laid flat to the ground and for want of the comfort and heat of the Sunne hath not attained to its due ripening and the waters have overflowed the earth so much that our cattell are like to want necessary food and sustentation so that all our former hopes seem to be frustrate and unlesse thou of thy speciall providence be mercifull to us the labours of our hands will prove altogether vain and our hopes will be as thistle-down Sap. 5.14 which is carried away with the winde and as the froth which is driven away with a storm and as the smoak which is dispersed here and there with a temptest and wee may justly fear a famine to ensue When O Lord we see and feel these extraordinary tempests and rains wee cannot but acknowledge thy just hand upon us for our ingratitude in not giving thee due praise for former plentifull yeers and seasonable times and for our sleighting and undervaluing so great blessings as also that thou art enforced to draw us to thee by more severe means and to learn by those thy plagues that mans labour avails nothing without thy blessing and that if thou withdraw thy hand of providence all our endeavours prove invalid and uneffectuall and therefore we should not undertake any thing without addresse to thee by prayer and when thy heavy hand is upon us in this or any other kinde to betake our selves to no other means then calling upon thy holy Name to releeue us At this time therefore lying under this scourge of thine we flee unto thee O mercifull Father wee tender our humble supplications to thee and earnestly in thy Sonnes Name and for his Merits beseech thee if it stand with thy blessed will to keep back the bitter judgement of dearth and famine which wee have just cause to fear O deal not with us in thy fury but bee pleased that we may enjoy those fruits of the earth which thou didst put us in hope to receive Supply O Lord what wee shall want by some way or means which thou in thy providence doest better know to give then wee to expect Isa ●9 1 Thy hand is not shortned that it cannot help And it is all one to thee to releeve us either with or without means Lord abate in us all immoderate desires to the creatures which with other our transgressions hath caused this judgement of famine to beginne to take hold upon us Divert these intemperate showers into our eyes and extract showers of tears from them which may testifie that wee unfeignedly bewaile our sinnes and deplore our manifold offences These showers will prove farre better and more wholsome and profitable for us and be a meanes by the intercession of our Saviour to stay and cease those stormes which seem to foretell our destruction and ruine Lord hear us and answer us for thy son Christ Jesus sake in whom thou are alone well pleased Amen FINIS