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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37070	The interest of England in the Protestant cause	Dury, John, 1596-1680.	1659 (1659)	Wing D2864; ESTC R15464	21,459	33

were his enemies O the depth and hight of thy love What shall we render what can wee return to thee again Shall wee not love thee still shal we not relye upon thy mercy seeing wee know that there is mercy with thee that thou mayst bee feared O then let not our hearts be hardned any more from thy fear but let us now draw neer unto thee upon the account of Jesus Christ who hath loved us and washed us in his own blood let us find access at the throne of Grace to receive not only mercifull forgiveness for what is past but supply of present help in this time of our need Help us to a true Gospell frame and settlement within our selves through love to thee to thy Truth and to each other without partiality Help us to advance thy Kingdom in the Communion of Saints towards all thy Churches abroad whose outward safety is wrapp'd up in our Peace and settlement Help us to mind the oppressed for the Truth 's sake being willing as thou shalt enable us to bear their burdens Help us to mind thy ancient people the seed of Abraham thy friend and the remnant of the Gentiles till the fulness thereof come in Help us to oppose effectually all Tyrannicall and imposing powers and practises of Antichristian subtilty by the lifting up and maintaining of the Standard of Christian liberty and Truth according to the Gospell and to these effects Let the Spirit of wisedom and counsell of strength and courage of all virtue and grace in the fear of thy name rest upon the head and heart of him whom thou hast set over these Nations to govern them in Righteousness Let the same Spirit dwell and preside in the great counsell of these Nations that they may with one shoulder unanimously concur to heal our breaches to join unto thee to settle a lasting Reformation of all our disorders in Judicatures of all publick scandals amongst professors of all defects and corruptions of Piety and Learning in the Seminaries thereof whether in the Universities or in inferiour Schools of common education Let the Magistrates in all places be found faithfull to their trust and the Ministers of thy Word be as thine own mouth to thy people and shining lights before them in the beauty of Holiness Let the Armies by Sea and Land sight always under thy Banner and being faithfull unto thee and thy Cause for the relief of the oppressed go thou before them as their Captain with thy presence and let thy Glory bee their reward And lastly let all the people of these three Nations from Dan to Bersheba be owned by thee as thy people and enjoying thy Ordinances in the Purity thereof the unclean Spirit and those that use a rough garment to deceive the simple may be cast out and Peace and Truth many continue with us so long as the Sun and the Moon shall last Grant according to the riches of thy grace these and all other things subservient thereunto for the sake and in the Name of Jesus Christ thy Son and our Saviour to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be given all praise and glory for ever and ever Amen FINIS A Postscript To the Christian READER TO fill up this Page which otherwise would have been empty I shall impart unto thee an extract out of Sir Edwyn Sands his Book called Europae Speculum or a View of the State of Religion in the western parts of the world page 183 with my observation thereupon He saith thus The end of these unhappy differences in Religi n between the Reformed and Lutheran Protestants will be that their enemies shall laugh when themselves shall have cause to weep unless the graciousness of God stir up some worthy Princes of renown and reputation with both the sides to enterpose their wisedom industry and authority for the uniting of these factions or at least wise for reconciling and composing those differences in some tollerable sort a work of immortall fame and desert and worthy of none other but of them of whom this wicked base world is not worthy Sir Edwyn hath been a true Prophet in this matter the enemies of the Truth have had cause hitherto and have new cause to laught at both our Ecclesiasticall and Civill divisions and to hope thereby for our ruine and I cannot disprove the remedy which he proposes namely that some Princes of power with both sides should interpose either to unite the parties or at least to allay their differences I say this indeavour of Princes is not to be dis-owned onely I would have this caution added that their endeavour in doing this should not be so much Authoritative and Magistraticall as Christian and Evangelicall if then they and their Counsellours could without Politicall ends and Interests in true simplicity and Christian sincerity take the work in hand to follow it as becometh those that serve Jesus Christ in his Gospel-way to lead men to the principle of love of moderation and mutual forbearance there might bee hope by their means to effect somthing in the work But hitherto their interposing hath been very little effectuall because the jealousies of States have been and are such amongst those that manage the affairs of the world that for the least difference upon any circumstantial punctillio of greatness they either fall out or at least break off all concurrence in common designs And if at any time they do concur in settling matters relating to Conscience they then as States mea in Au hority impose them in a way wholly inconsistent with Gospel liberty which can never hold where the light doth more and more break forth For this causeth whole difficultie doth lye in managing the Spirits of men with Christian meekness to gain them to their duty which is First wi lingly to declare that whereunto they have attained and wherein they agree with others Secondly faith fully engage themselves to observe the Rules of inoffensive walking notwithstanding such differences as are exstant among them if these things could be attained not by any command but by a loving perswasion from each party the work might be done both there and here where we have as much need of healing as any where else

danger wherein we are more then others is not the onely reason which doth oblige us to procure this Correspondency more then others but the engagement which lies upon the Godly Party and the State it self of this Nation more eminently then upon others to procure it is another obligation binding us thereunto This Engagement is eminently apparent in three Declarations of the State First in the Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdome published by the Parliament Anno 1641. Secondly in the Nationall League and Covenant of both Kingdoms Thirdly and lastly in the Declaration of the Parliament published the 12 of July in the year 1653. In the Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdome at the latter end thereof the Clause obliging the Godly Party which then did manage Publick affairs to mind a Correspondency towards forraign Protestants is expressed in these words We will labour by all offices of friendship to unite the Forraign Churches with us in the same Cause and to seek their Libertie Safety and Prosperity as bound thereunto by Charity to them and by wisedome for our own good for by this means our own strength shall be increased and by a mutuall concurrence to the same common end we shall be able to procure the good of the whole body of the Protestant Profession This is as solemne a promise fully and expresly obliging them to seek this Concurrence and Correspondency as can in so few words be expressed In the National League and Covenant the last words thereof engage also deeply those that did swear it to desire affectionately as in the presence of God and consequently when opportunity should be to endeavour sincerely this That the success of our proceedings may be deliverance and safety to all God's people and an encouragement to other Christian Churches groaning under and in danger of the yoke of Antichristian Tyranny to join with us in the same or like Association and Covenant to the Glory of God the enlargement of the Kingdom of Chrict and the peace and Tranquility of Christian Kingdoms and Common wealths This profession being made in presence of God with a hand lifted up unto Heaven by the Godly Party of both Nations as it is conscionably to be minded so it cannot reach the End for which it is made to give an encouragement to other Christian Churches to assert jointly with us their Gospel-Liberty except we endeavour to maintain a Religious Correspondency with them In the Declaration of the Parliament of the year 1653. the address is made in express terms To all God's people as well in Neighbour Nations as in this the professions are more zealous and a●ge to this effect then any of the former For they declare a great expectation of the breaking forth of the Kingdom of Christ in all the earth they manifest their faith and hope to this effect That God will not suffer his people here to deal falsely with him in his Cause till he hath accomplished his great work and brought about his great ends And thereupon they make an earnest prayer that God would unite their hearts to himself that they may be one amongst themselves and with all the people of God who are members of the Body of Christ and that they may bee fitted and used as Instruments in the hand of God for a more full and clear revealing of the Lord Jesus and a right promulgation of the blessed Gospel and the true interest of his Kingdom and the advance thereof that oppressing yoaks may be broken and all burthens removed that his Tabernacle may be fully raised up and his Temple built by his Spirit that all his people may have one lip one heart one consent one shoulder to bow down and worship him that the envy of Judah and Ephraim may be taken away that they may be one in one fold with one Shepherd that the Swords and Speares may bee turned into plough shares and pruning hooks and the earth filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea Now where such profession are so solemnly and so largely in a publick way addressed unto God and all his people in this and in Neighbour Nations and made in a manner the chief matter which was aimed at in that Nationall Assembly of the States in Parliament what can be conceived more obliging towards the undertaking of the work If therefore we should put forth no endeavours to perform this Duty whereof wee acknowledge our selves so fully convicted by so many Professions and Vows and Prayers and Declarations will it not be a guilt lying so much the heavier upon us in the day of our accounts by how much the more we have engaged our selves unto it Certainly God will not be mocked and if after so many Protestations in times of distresse and Deliverances since obtained and Successes given in to inable us to perform our Vows and Engagements we should undertake nothing towards the discharge of this duty which lyeth so eminently upon us our guilt will suddenly overtake us and the punishment thereof if not prevented by some attempts sutable to our Engagements will be fearfull and severe Therefore that it may bee prevented the second Query should be laid to heart viz. How a Religious Corrospondency may be procured and maintained between the Godly Party of this Nation and the Forraign Protestants But to Answer this Second Query before any resolution appear that the Duty of Correspondency will be intended seemeth superfluous if not preposterous it will then bee seasonable to speak of this thing when some shall be deputed to take the matter into consideration and undertake the management thereof In the mean time let me take God and all that are Godly in these Nations to witness that I have herein not been wanting to my duty but have discharged my conscience in faithfullness to the Churches and to the State of these Nations concerning this great concernment if others who ought to mind it without partiality no less seriously then I do discharge not their Duty in their places when called upon and when the opportunity doth require their concurrence the fault will lye so much the more heavily upon them by how much they have been more earnestly pressed to mind their Duty Nor can any pretence be alledged why it should not be done at this time without any delay Is it not now seasonable yea necessary that we should lay the animosities and interests of parties aside to imbrace a Gospell-Interest and is the Gospell-Interest any thing else then that all who have received the Truth which is after Godliness should own one another in that whereunto they have attained and walking by the same Rules mind the same thing which is the end of the Cammandement to serve one another through love out of a pure heart out of a good Conscience and out of Faith unfeigned Why may we not all declare that whereunto we have attained are we not bound to give an account of the Faith and