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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91942	A letter, discovering the cause of Gods continuing wrath against the nation, notwithstanding the present endeavors of reformation: directing to the meanes of appeasing that wrath; and encouraging to constancy in those endeavours: / written with much judgement and pious affection, by Mr Nathaniel Rogers, a godly and learned Divine now in New-England, to a worthy member of the Honourable House of Commons, bearing date, Decemb. 17, 1643. Imprimatur Edmund Calamy.	Rogers, Nathaniel, 1598-1655.	1644 (1644)	Wing R1821; Thomason E53_20; ESTC R23205	8,921	12

he will delight to worke by It 's not by might nor wit but my Spirit the barley cake tumbles down Midians tents that is Gideon humbled with such a description made of him in that divine dreame Now the time is for such as Nehemiah was to repaire Ierusalems walls men of faith that will not be daunted men of innocency and goodnesse that cannot be blemished men of zeale that can neither endure Gods honour to be prophaned nor peoples poverty to be oppressed by the greatest whatsoever And who but Nehemiah's could doe your work and act your part at this day who could have endured such labours and discouragements His enemies scoffe at length they conspire to be upon him from every part his own people complaine of the difficulty of the work their weary shoulders with carrying burdens the aboundance of rubbish still remaining never like to be overcome Neh 4 3 8 10. yet he encourageth the people puts himselfe and his upon the hardest taskes puts not off his cloathes watcheth worketh prayeth and is at great charges instead of taking the wonted allowance of men in his place Truly when God hath such work to doe he raiseth men of such extraordinary spirits Blessed be our God that hath raised up such and upheld their hearts in that Honourable House of invincible courage and patience and labours whatever is become of others whom the Lord deligts not in to honour them with such choice work as his Temple-work is Be you assured that the hearts of the faithfull in Israel are towards the governours of Israel that offered themselves willingly among the people blesse ye the Lord Iudg. 6. The poore despised of Christs flock here doe pray whiles you watch and work and in the sense of the weight of your charge would gladly be putting stones under your armes whiles with Moses you are stretching out the rod of your authority and deliverance and others are fighting against Amalck And the good Lord stirre up the hearts of the people of the Land to cleave unto you that as God hath made you as the two hundred heads of Issachar men that had understanding of the times and what Israel ought to doe and their brethren were at their commandment 1 Chro. 12.32 so you may be able to say as the Governours of Iudah The inhabitants of Ierusalem are our strength in the Lord of hosts their God Zech. 12.5 And certainly the true inhabitants of Ierusalem they are a great strengthening though very few not in themselves indeed but in their God who is the Lord of hosts you are the Vindices or Judges of Gods Israel a people precious unto him who should be afraid to be the keeper of Gods sheep Ioab bid be of good courage and behave themselves valiantly for their people and the Cities of their God 1 Chro. 19.13 He that keeps the Church of Christ keeps that which will keep him yea it is the Ark of the Lord which you are guarding which guards them that carry it as sometimes when it was sent homewards in a Cart by the Philistines it was both auriga onus as Theodoret observes Esther need not shrink to speake for the saving of that people whose safety without her was surer then her own without speaking for them as Mordecai told her And though it 's not the least part of your temptation that the successe depends much upon people who are generally as unstable as waters who may doe much either way but are doubtfull whether yet both these are in the hands of the Lord who if he touch their hearts they shall as one man flow and stick close unto you and doubtlesse the faithfull in the Land who are not of a double heart close with your godly aimes and endeavours and one of them is better then a thousand others and the Saints shall prevaile though it be by their death to bring forth the Cause of the Lord Jesus in his own time But oh that I might aspire farther in hop● that the Lord in whose hands are the hearts of Kings would give you the heart and hand of his Anointed to joyne with his Nobles and people to bring back the Ark with David to its place and that He would at length say that which I am perswaded he might say in his very heart The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in the Lord their God and alas that in the mean time his soule dwells among those who are Apollyonists children of the curse the generation of Gods wrath of whom we might say Depart from their Tents least c. and with Iaacob ô my soule come not into their secret The Lord perswade As for your selves whom the Lord hath hitherto maintained constant and faithfull to his Cause though with the extreame hazzard of your persons families estates c. in the midst of such multitudes of your ranke that follow the wind yea a body of people which through ignorance and prophanenesse are enemies to the pure and exact ways of our Lord Jesus the Lord remember you and wipe not out any of your kindnesses to the house of your God yea the Lord is with you and you are laying that stone which hath seven eyes which run through the whole earth to watch for you and most wisely and prosperously to carry on your work about it to perfection in his season Feare not but let your hands be strong you fight the battels of the Lord and I trust evill hath not been found in your no not in your hearts towards his Anointed He shall bind up your soules in the bundle of life but the soules of the Cavalieres shall be flung out as out of the midst of a sling Only may I humbly suggest my suite that no unbeleeving feares nor ensnaring flatteries of men wise according to the flesh cause you to make haste or turne aside short or into any crooked ways but make through work as tender hearted Iosiah and listen not to Samaritan worshippers any more as formerly others have Placet mirum in modum nostrae carni saith P. Martyr on 1 Cor. 5. in duas partes claudicar● quod est Deo quam odiosissimum Civiles homines quòd in Reformatione leniter agere volint causam adducunt quòd tumultus horrent atque seditiones Ideò ubique suadent ad multa connivendum esse Caterum alia est severitas verbi Dei Moses was so strict and yet it was but faithfulnesse as to stay 600000. men then leave one hoofe behind him for that it might be for sacrifice in service of the Lord. It 's true Prudence directs quibus medijs to presse and put on the work of the Lord but Piety admits not of any fitting of Religion or the Kingdome of Christ to times places or persons His worship and Kingdome is not one framed for the plaine or persecuting times of the Apostles and another for the stately frames of Christian polities be they never so great All States must conforme to the Church all