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A86310	Queen Esthers resolves: or, A princely pattern of heaven-born resolution, for all the lovers of God and their country: opened in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at the monethly fast, May 27, 1646. / By Richard Heyricke, Warden of Christs Colledge in Manchester in Lancashire, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Heyrick, Richard, 1600-1667.	1646 (1646)	Wing H1748; Thomason E338_11; ESTC R200845	22,360	35

County but now she sits like a Widdow desolate the hand of God hath lately gone out against them the onely Town untouch'd by the Enemy and the onely town in all the County stroke of God The Priests the Ministers of the Lord that did bear the Ark of God upon their shoulders there were sixteen of them in that Parish and now I know but one one alone as Eliah left to do the service of the Lord and he is upon tiptoe ready to take his flight scarce having bread through the wickednesse of the times the great revenues of the Church being unjustly withheld from him to put into his childrens mouth the Wals of the Garrison they moulder away and what the Enemy could never do time hath made wide breaches in their Works and there is not at this time that I know of five souldiers to keep the Garrison these things in a Petition they have lately laid at your feet Give me leave in theirs and others behalf to say Let not so great labour of Love be forgotten Let the blessing of them that are ready to perish be upon you Comfort them yea comfort them according to the time wherein they have been afflicted yea give them double for what they have done There are many Uses that I could make of this Doctrine but time and strength would both fail me I will conclude all with a short meditation peruse 1 Kings 22.19 20. And he said hear thou therefore the Word of the Lord I saw the Lord sitting upon his Throne and all the Host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left And the Lord said Who shall perswade Ahab that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead and one said on this manner and another said on that Be pleased to conceive a Parliament at this time conveen'd in Heaven and God on his Throne asking this Question Shall I destroy England And so some Answers after this manner and some after that One stands up and sayes England must be destroyed Elijah a bold and daring man he makes intercession to God against Israel Lord they have killed thy Prophets and digged down thine Altars thou hast consumed with the Spirit of thy mouth and hast consumed with the brightnesse of thy comming the great Antichrist the Grand Imposter the man of sin the son of Perdition the wicked one and behold there are many Antichrists many wicked ones that are risen up in the room of him there are little Foxes that spoyl the Vines those Vines that have tender Grapes and they are not taken away A Second seconds the former and saith England must be destroyed there is a great cry of injustice of oppression of wrong of injury blood toucheth blood Courts of Justice Committees are Courts of Robbery and spoyl the poor sheep flyes to the bush for shelter and loseth his fleece Papists Malignants compound and they oppresse their poor Tenants that have engaged themselves in the publike for the Lord against their lords A third assents to what the two former hath said England must be destroyed wrath is begun amongst them they begin to imbrue their hands in each others blood and because others cannot murther them they will kill one another Lord what fears what suspicions what jealousies what sad divisions amongst thine own people they that Affliction made friends prosperity makes enemies they whom one heaven will contain one Church cannot A fourth confirmes and concludes with the three former England must be destroyed they have broke the Covenant they have falsified the Oath of God Oaths and Covenants are like Sampsons coards every one makes use of them to their own Interests To these agreed many more there was a great cry heard in the house Down with it down with it even to the ground God looked from his throne and wondred there was not one found not one to stand in the Gap to make an Atonement to speak in the behalf of England After a short silence one arose from his seat and said Lord wilt thou destroy England England for whom thou hast done so great things amongst whom thou hast magnified thy Name hast done Wonders What Nation is there so great who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord their God is in all things they have called upon him for and what Nation is there so great that have Statutes and judgements so righteous Aske now of the dayes that are past which were before thee since the day that God created man upon Earth and aske from the one side of heaven unto the other whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is or hath been heard like it Did ever people hear the Voyce of God speaking out of the midst of the fire as thou hast heard and live or hath God assayed to go take him a Nation from the midst of another Nation by temptation by signes and by wonders and by War and by a mighty hand and by a stretched out Arme and by great terrors according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes God never did more by Josuah by Macchabeus by Alexander by the King of Sweden then by the Parliaments Army this year wilt thou destroy what thine hand hath done what will the Atheists the Papists the Malignants say Surely God was not able to save them save them for thy great Names sake A second ariseth and saith England must not be destroyed Lord wilt thou destroy a righteous Nation if there be fifty forty thirty twenty ten righteous there shall not the Judge of all the Earth do that that is right there are seven thousand at least that have not bowed their knees to Baal there are sixty thousand and more yea then sixty hundred thousand that cannot discern betwixt the right hand and the left thou never didst destroy a praying a reforming people wilt thou now do what was never in thy thoughts before A third ariseth after the second and pleads the same cause England must not be destroyed there is a Parliament in the midst of them Physitians of great value God hath been amongst them and in the midst of them and they are still acting for God and the Kingdomes safety did ever Parliament perish before After all these the fourth ariseth that there might not appear fewer to speak for then there was to speak against England England must not be destroyed they cannot dye alone the three Kingdomes must dye with them yea the Protestant Churches throughout the world hast thou not said That hell gates shall not prevail against thy people To these many more joyn'd in heart and Vote there was a considerable partee of both sides nor could it be determin'd whether had more voyces they that spake for the destruction or they that spake for the salvation of England and having said they were silent And behold as we read in the Revelation there was in heaven great silence for half an houre both