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A16830 The true souldiers convoy A sermon preached upon the xvjth. day of May 1640, vpon a prayer day, for the Princes good successe in going forth to warre. By William Bridge. Bridge, William, 1600?-1670. 1640 (1640) STC 3732; ESTC S106547 26,900 104

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7. All you that are watchmen upon the wals of Ierusalem all the day and all the night continually cease not ye that are mindfull of the Lord keepe not ye that are mindefull of the Lord keepe not silence And giue him no rest till he repaire and untill he set up Ierusalem the praise of the Lord. Vse Vse Will prayer do it Will prayer raise God for the scattering of the enemies of the Churches J beseech you in the name of God let us consider where to lay the fault and the blame of much of that evill which is come upon the Churches in these latter times when the defeate was lately before Antwerpe there was fault laid on such a man and such a man when we consider the afflictions of Germany we are ready to say if such a King or country had stepped in all this evill had been prevented the Palatinate restored and peace setled but may we not rather say if our prayers had stepped in This word telleth us that our prayers do awaken God and when God is awakened then the enemies are destroyed we see then in truth where the fault lyeth our prayers haue not come in full enough wherefore the lesse we haue prayed before the more let us pray now pray in your closets pray in your families pray in the assemblies pray alone pray in company pray for all the Churches pray for Germany the first place of reformation pray for Holland your hiding place and in all your prayers forget not England still pray for England take some motiues First You are unnaturall if you pray not it is reported of Croesus his sonne that hee was dumbe and seeing one about to kill his father though he had been alwaies dumb before yet then he burst forth into this speech what will you kill Croesus If you be in Christ the Church of Christ is more to you then many Croesusses your grace doth not extinguish nature but advance it helpe and not hinder a gracious heart cannot be unnaturall though it loveth to be supernaturall Secondly It is the property of a good Christian and of true grace to obserue what worke God is doing and to helpe on that worke what God is doing in the world and to help that on what God is doing upon his own heart and to helpe that on Oh Lord saith the soule helpe mee I will help thee I will put my shoulder unto thy worke as thou art pleased to put thy hand to my duty now the great work which God is doing in these times is the powring out of the seven vials Rev. 16. and if you look into the Rev. 5. 8. You shall finde that the saints prayers are their vials help forward then Gods vials with your viall viall doth call for viall Thirdly Either good and deliverance will come unto the Churches or els it will not if it do not you had need pray that your hearts may be supported in all and setled prayer is a composing duty and fully setling if it doe come you had neede pray that you may haue the comfort of it when it commeth or els that you may not envy at those that haue prayed for it is a hard thing for one that standeth Idle not to envy at him that worketh Fourthly You do not loue the Churches if you doe not pray for them He that loveth Ierusalem prayeeh for the peace of Jerusalem Doe you loue England Doe you loue Germany Do ye loue Holland Doe you loue the Churches and your friends He that loveth Ierusalem prayeth for it and if you doe not pray for them you haue no loue to them Fiftly You cannot prosper if you do not pray they shall prosper that loue thee how loue thee in praying for thee you cannot prosper if you pray not for the Churches will you not pray then Sixthly you are not Gods seruants if you doe not pray for his servants you are not Gods children if you pray not for his children if you mark that of the Psalmist it is made an act of service and a signe of a servant to pitty the dust and stones of fallen Ierusalem saith he thy servants pitty the dust therof as if they were not servants that haue no pitty I know you would not haue your livery taken from you all things of the like nature sympathize with one auother if you haue the same nature with the Saintes you shall you will you must sympathyze with them in all conditions you cannot but pray Seventhly You cannot haue a part in the prayers of the Churches unlesse you pray for the Churches think upon this argument can you be contented to loose your share in all the prayers of the Saintes an action there is better then an action in the East-India company there stock is great if your stock go not in you cannot haue a part with them and that is evill Eightly If you pray not for the Churches your own selfeish prayers will be bootlesse when a man shall pray much for his owne family his own name or estate his owne child that lieth a dying and will not pray for the dying Churches this is a self-ish duty a carnall selfe-ish spirit is very loathsome in what is spirituall and what are you the better for your rich cabbin your warme cabbin your neate cabbin if your ship sinke Ninethly Consult with the 13 chapter of Nehemiah 1. 2. There you find it written Neh. 13 1. 2. that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the Congregation of God for ever what was the reason because they met not the childrē of Israel with bread and with water He that will not meet with distressed Israel with such reliefe as he may is an unfit man to haue a name in a Church of Christ and it is unfit he should come into the house of God for ever wherfore as ever you desi●e to haue a name in Gods house pray pray oh now pray you may with this bread and water meet with Israel and in meting with them you do meet with Christ Tenthly The price of the welfare peace and good of the Churches is now rising Fugiantia sequimur the time may come it may not be purchased or bought in by prayer J remembcr I haue read of a man that brought the booke of the Sibils unto the Emperour or King of the Romanes and desired a great price for those books the Emperour refused he goeth away burneth halfe the books doubled the price and then commeth to the Emperour and offered him them at that rate the emperour refuseth again he went away and burnt the halfe of those books which were left and doubled the price which the Emperour considering gaue him the whole money which he desired so now it may be you may haue the welfare the peace the life of the Churches for prayer time may come wherin though you adde to your prayer your estates to your estates your liberties to your liberties all your welfares and to your