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england_n	ireland_n	lord_n	scotland_n	6,987	5	7.9748	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80900	A declaration of His Highness the Lord Protector and the Parlam'ent [sic] of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, & Ireland, for a day of solemn fasting & humiliation in the three nations.	England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell); Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.	1654 (1654)	Wing C7068A; ESTC R230851	1,920	4

A DECLARATION Of His Highness the Lord Protector AND THE PARLAMENT Of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND SCOTLAND IRELAND For a Day of Solemn FASTING HUMILIATION in the three NATIONS WHo is such a stranger in our Israel that hath not taken notice of the great things God hath brought to pass amongst us by his out-stretched arm What nation is there who hath had God more nigh unto them than the Lord our God hath been to us in all things we have called unto him for Ask of the daies that are past which have been before us in these later ages whether there have been any such things as those many blessings and signal deliverances vouchsafed to us from his own hand in answer to the voice of tears and blood that have been powred forth But in the mean while this is matter of great lamentation whilst God by a continual series of his loving kindnesses and providences hath multiplied mercies and forgivenesses to us we of these Nations instead of an answerable return of thankfulness and obedience have as the highest aggravation of our sin multiplyed our provocations against him In that general ignorance unthankfulnes and unfruitfulness under all those dews of grace and Gospel-mercies In not acknowledging fully to this very day our calamities to have come upon us from the hands of God alone provoked by us who useth what instruments he pleaseth to execute his indignation In not bemoaning our selvs as sons and smiting upon our thighs with Ephraim in the sense of our own iniquities and of the patience forbearing mercies of our heavenly Father In that prophane sensual worldly formal and Laodicean spirit generally amongst us some hating the power of godliness and despising the true professors thereof for having the image of God upon them and others by being loose in their opinions and practices have turned the grace of God into wantonness In that great neglect and want of zeal and courage in Magistrates and other officers persons therein concerned to suppress enormities in conscience to perform the duty incumbent upon them to God and man All which with other the crying sins of these three Nations call aloud upon us that as we are now united to be one Commonwealth under one Government so having been sinful and sufferers together we would with one heart and lip be perswaded to unite in our humble and serious addresses and supplications to Almighty God That the fruit of all our mercies might not be with Jesurun to kick or to be found fighters against him nor opposers of his will as if we were preserved to commit yet more abominations That we may wrestle and prevail with him for pardon and removal of our darkness vanities blasphemies prophaness with all that worldly mindedness formality and other abominations which are yet found amongst us under the glorious light of the Gospel That as God hath been pleased to make choice of these Islands wherein to manifest many great and glorious things so he would answerably make us a chosen generation and a peculiar people that in thankfulness to him and example to others we might shew forth his praises who hath separated us from other nations and called as out of darkness into his light That God would now speak with a strong hand to quiet the spirits of men that are apt to murmure by causing them clearly to see where the true and spiritual interest of Christians lieth and that in keeping close thereunto is wrapt up their safety that so When he uttereth his voice All flesh may be silent before him and know that he is raised out of his holy habitation That though he hath had just cause to be angry with us for our murmurings back-slidings and other iniquities and hath therefore smitten us yet that he would now heal us and restore comfort to us and our Mourners And especially that God would inable the Rulers of these Nations now in consultation about their peace settlement welfare to proceed with faithfulness zeal wisdom and union to fulfill the end of their being called together and to be such and do such things for the interest of Christ and his members and for the good of all the People as they ought and as he hath promised Governours should be and do in subserviency to those glorious ends That so at last through the goodness and mercy of our God these three Nations after so great and various revolutions may be establisht together upon the sure foundations of Truth Righteousness and Peace It is therefore declared by His Highness the Lord Protector and the Parlament of the Common-Wealth of England Scotland and Ireland that for the ends and purposes aforesaid they doe appoint Wednesday being the eleventh day of October next for a day of solemn humiliation and seeking the face of God through the mediation of Christ in all places within England and Scotland and Wednesday the first day of November next in all places in Ireland And doe therefore hereby incite and encourage all such whose hearts God shall perswade and make sensible of their duty and of the Commonwealths present condition that the respective daies aforesaid whereof the Ministers and Preachers of the respective Parishes and Congregations are to take not●ce For which end It is Ordered that Copies of this Declaration be printed and sent into the severall parts of the three Nations that the same may be Published accordingly Passed the Nineteenth of September 1654. Hen Scobell Clerk of the Parliament London Printed by William du-Gard and Henry Hills Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector 1654.