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fire_n	cloud_n	day_n	pillar_n	4,681	5	10.5980	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60350	The protectors protection, or, The pious prince guarded by a praying people a sermon preached at St. Edmundsbury in Suffolk, upon the 13 Octob. 1658, being a day set apart for solemn fasting and humiliation and seeking a blessing upon His Highness the Lord Protector / by Sam. Slater ...	Slater, Samuel, d. 1704.	1659 (1659)	Wing S3968; ESTC R22448	38,832	77

did Iordan or else to limit them saying Hitherto shall ye go and no further We should not delight to see the Sword of Justice and divine Indignation sheathing it self in the bowels of our Magistrates and washing away their miscarriages with their own blood but rather endeavor to stay the hand to ward the blow intended against them in the mean time washing away their offences with our tears If Ieroboams hand be withered let the man of God pray for him that it may be restored again and not prejudice the whole Thus we should put up deprecatory prayers called in the Text supplications for Magistrates and Governors We must make petitionary prayers for Kings and all that are in authority These are in the Translation called Prayers in the Original {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which word signifieth an earnest and importunate desiring of that which is good a seeking of mercy at the hands of the Father of Mercies we should have our buckets ready not onely to quench those fires which are kindled but also to draw those mercies which are wanted It is the duty of Christians as to stand in the breach for the keeping off evils so to pave the way for blessings they should shut the door against troubles and open it unto desired good we ought to call in and invite the blessings of God upon the heads of those whom he hath set over us Beg for them direction that God would guide their hand while it is upon the rudder When the Israelites were travelling toward Canaan God led them by a pillar of a cloud by day and of fire by night they being unacquainted with the way and ready at every turn to step aside The way in which Princes are to walk is no beaten path there are many windings and turnings in it and if they have no other guide then their own reason or carnal wisdom or worldly policy they will be often out seldom in we had need pray that God would make his way plain before their faces Beg for them protection as they are subject to mistakes so to dangers the power of darkness laugh when they wander and rage when they go right Satan will use his utmost wits to seduce them and put them in a wrong way and if there he cannot prevail he will lay his ambushes for them they cannot proceed in the path of Gods cutting out but they shall meet with opposition the devil and all the powers of darkness will combine against them Therefore pray that God would be their Shield as well as their Sun and not onely make their way plain but also safe hedging it about with his careful and powerful providence Beg for them prosperity that God would not onely shew them the way and hedge it about but also pave it with goodness and grant unto them that while they walk in the way of duty they may attain the end of Gods glory their comfort the Gospels promotion Religions advancement the Nations prosperity and peace both temporal and spiritual In a word beg of God for them whatsoever may make their Reign and Government comfortable unto themselves serviceable to Religion and beneficial unto us A full place you have in the twentieth Psalm which Psalm throughout is very pertinent to our purpose it being a Prayer of the Church in which according to what you finde in the contents thereof she blesseth the King in his exploirs i. e. begs from God a blessing upon him in his undertakings See the 2 3 4 verses Send thee help from the Sanctuary and strengthen thee out of Sion there they beg for him assistance of God succor and strength Remember all thy offerings and accept thy burnt-sacrifice there she begs acceptance and audience attends him to the throne of Grace backs his prayers with her own and as it were doth with her own hand subscribe all the Petitions that he draws Grant thee according to thy heart and fulfil all thy counsels where she prays for success and prosperity upon all his counsels designs and purposes i. e. such of them as were according to the will of God and framed by that exact rule such of them as made for the glory of God and were directed to that highest and most noble end such of them as had a proper tendency to the good and welfare both of the Church and State the care of which should lye very near the Princes heart here was a most happy conjunction sweet reciprocations between a good King and a good People David a good King much in care and prayer for his people they again much in prayer for him here is a fair Copy for us to write after And thus you see we are to put up petitionary Prayers for our Governors We must put up intercessory prayers for Princes and all those that are in Authority over us This is the third Branch mentioned here in the Text Intercessions The word in the Original is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and saith Arrtius we make Intercession quoties de injuria illata querimur Domino vindictam committimus interdum ad vindictam solicitamus i. e. when we complaine of wrong and injuries that are offered unto them commit their cause to God and their vindication and also somtimes solicite him to appear in their behalfe and for the avenging of their quarrel Thus the Church acted in the fore-mentioned place 20 Psa. 1. The Lord heare thee in the day in trouble the Name of the God of Iacob defend thee Thus in an hour of distress and in the midst of threatning danger they tooke their Prince in the armes of their faith and prayer carrying him to the Name of the Lord which is a strong Tower that in it he might be safe The same should we do if at any time trouble arise and the Chief Magistrate in the Nation runnes an hazard men of Belial rising up who would lay his honour in the dust in a word are there either forrein or home-bred adversaries at work in a way of open violence or secret contrivances to bring about his ruine and overthrow it then becomes the Saints who are Heavens Favourites to desire God to owne him heare his prayers be his help keep him safe under the shadow of his wings set him on an high place out of the reach of his Enemies rage and malice and be himselfe his shield that should repel and quench the fiery darts of his Enemies Cornelius Alap tells us that intercession is Interpellatio pro aliorum salute a putting in with God for the safety of others Polanus tells us it is that prayer which the saints maks for others ut Deus ipsis bonum aliquod conferat aut ab ipsis malum aliquod auferat that God would confer some good thing upon them or take away and remove some evil thing from them load them with his Blessings or ease them of their Burdens follow them with mercy and goodness and compass