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A30058 The church's request to all her faithful sons and children that they would now pray for her, and stand by her, and help her what they can, and not forsake her in her desolate condition, and the dark time of popery that is coming upon her / written by Digby Bull ... Bull, Digby. 1695 (1695) Wing B5409; ESTC R37486 34,998 41

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David and he shall execute Judgment and Righteousness in the Land In those days shall Judah be saved and Jerusalem shall dwell safely and this is his Name whereby he shall be called The Lord our Righteousness And by this Branch of Righteousness is meant our blessed Saviour and therefore under Jerusalem is comprehended the Christian Church And saith the Prophet Isaiah 2.2 And it shall come to pass in the last days that the Mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the Mountains and shall be exalted above the Hills and all Nations shall flow unto it And this seems to be a prediction of the times of the Gospel and this Mountain of the Lord's house to be the Christian Church And saith the Prophet Micah 4.7 And the Lord shall Reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth even for ever But this cannot well be understood of any other Reigning over them than in the Christian Church For there is no appearance of God's Reigning over them now in Mount Zion taking it literally for that place in the Land of Judea And that this Legal and Temple-worship of the Jews at Jerusalem was to cease and that God was then to be worshiped after a Spiritual manner even our Blessed Lord sheweth Jo. 4.21 Jesus saith unto her Woman believe me the hour cometh when ye shall neither in th●s Mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father And Ver. 23. But the hour cometh and now is when the true Worshippers shall Worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth for the Father seeketh such to Worship him The Jewish way of Worship at the Temple was then to cease and Jerusalem literally taken was no longer to be God's peculiar place of Worship above all others after the Gospel was published and after the death of our Saviour Nor is it that City litterally taken that we are now obliged to pray for above all others But it is the Christian Church which is now to be accounted the true Israel of God and to come in place thereof and is oft comprehended in the name of Jerusalem and meant by it and for this are we now to pray And we may see that Jerusalem is used in a figurative manner for the Church of Christ Gal. 4.26 Saith the Apostle But Jerusalem which is above is free which is the Mother of us all And saith the Apostle speaking of the Christian state of the Church Heb. 12.22 But ye are come unto mount Zion and unto the City of the living God the Heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels to the general Assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in Heaven The Christian Church which is in Society with the Saints and Angels above is the Jerusalem that we are now to be so much concerned for and especially for that part of it among us By this exhortation and precept then of the devout Psalmist though it doth primarily respect the Jews are we also taught to seek and pray for the Peace and Prosperity of the true Church of God especially of that part of it that is amongst us and for the Good and Welfare of our own Kingdom and Nation upon which our own Peace and Happiness do depend and to do all the good Offices for them that we can For in such a general sense are we to understand the exhortation and precept here in the Text as I have shewed And First We ought to have a great care that we do no injury and harm to them and no ways disturb the Peace of them In being required and enjoyned to pray for our Jerusalem for the Church of God and for the good of our own Nation and People we are hereby plainly forbid to do any Injury and Wrong to them And it is our Saviour's command that we should be harmless and innocent in all respects Mat. 10.16 Behold saith he I send you forth as sheep in the midst of Wolves be ye therefore wise as Serpents and harmless as Doves And herein especially are we to be so in committing no publick Offences and Crimes against the Church or good of the Nation We are to be very cautious and circumspect that we do not wilfully offend against the common Good and Welfare of the Church or State and to have a great care that we commit no wilful Acts of Violence and Wrong against them and that we lend no helping hand to destroy and overthrow th● Protestant Church and our Good Laws and well-establisht Go●●●●m●●t There is no doubt to me but that the Protestant Church of England is a true and eminent part of the Church of Christ and therefore every Man ought to have a very great care that he doth not any ways help to destroy and pull it down and to introduce Popery in the room of it The Protestant Religion is agreeable to the pure Word of God but Popery is flat contrary to that sacred Word in a multitude of places as you may see in the Protestant's Letter and the Book called the Contrariety of Popery to the blessed Word of God and every good Protestant then ought to chuse rather to die at the Stake than to help to make this change in Religion And those that do so may justly expect the Woe and Curse of God to come upon them for helping to destroy such an eminent part of his Church And we are to have a care that we offer no Wrong and Violence to any of the Members thereof that we no ways annoy and injure the very meanest of them Nor must we help to overthrow our laudable and good Laws and well Establisht Government and to bring the Kingdom under the Popish Yoke and Bondage again If we bear that good will that we ought to our Jerusalem and would observe this precept of the Devout and Royal Psalmist we must refrain from the doing of any of these things and offer no Violence nor Injury to our beloved City or any of the Members of it And to deter us the more from doing any Acts of Violence and Wrong to the Church or any of the faithful Members thereof we may see that Woe and Misery is threatned to such and like to come upon them Our Saviour pronounceth a Woe against the Pharisees for obstructing the Kingdom of Heaven and hindering the progress of the Gospel Mat. 23.13 But woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites saith he for ye shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against Men For ye neither go in your selves neither suffer ye them that are entring to go in And saith he Luc. 11.52 Wo unto you Lawyers for ye have taken away the key of knowledge ye entred not in your selves and them that were entring in ye hindred This wo is denounced against them for opposing the Kingdom of Heaven and hindering the increase and advancement of the Church of God And all those that shall now help to destroy the true Church of Christ or to do any wrong to any part
and us therein That he would look down from Heaven Psal 80.14 and behold and visit this vine and the vineyard which his right hand hath planted that it may not be cut down and burnt up with fire That he would set watchmen upon the walls of our Jerusalem Is 62.6 which should never hold their peace day nor night but always give warning at the approach of any evil that it might be prevented and to make supplication to the Lord that he would defend our beloved City therefrom And now are we earnestly to pray unto Almighty God for the preventing as much as may be such judgments and calamities as do now hang over our heads and which we have justly deserved That our Candlestick may not be totally removed and that God may not send such a famine upon us as he threatens by the Prophet Amos 8.11 Behold the days come saith the Lord God that I will send a famine in the land not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water but of hearing the words of the Lord Such a spiritual famine of the word of God are we to pray to be delivered from and that God would preserve his pure Religion to us and keep us from all idolatrous practices and sinful errors in Religion That we may be delivered from the devouring Sword and that our Land may not be turned into a field of blood and a valley of slaughter That we may not hear the sound of the Trumpet and Alarm of war and be commanded as it is Joel 3.10 to beat our plowshares into swords and our pruning hooks into spears That our corn may not be given to be meat for our enemies and the Sons of the stranger may not drink our wine for which we have labored but that they that have gathered it may eat it and praise the Lord Is 62.8 That we may not as it is Is 65.22 build and another inhabit and plant and another eat the fruit thereof and that we may not labor in vain and bring forth for trouble That violence may not be heard in our Land Is 60.18 wasting nor destruction within our borders but that our walls might truly be called Salvation and our gates Praise To God are we to make supplication that he would not cause the Pestilence to cleave unto us nor smite us with any consuming sickness and disease That he would not send a famine upon us and cause us to be smitten with blasting and mildew and make the Heaven that is over our head as brass and the Earth that is under our feet as Iron nor give our substance and labor to be consumed by the locusts and caterpillers and such Armies of his That our Church and Kingdom may be preserved from these and from all other Plagues and Judgments that we have justly deserved are we to make supplication to Almighty God that we may endeavour to prevent them as much as may be We are also to make our humble and hearty prayers to Almighty God for the removing and taking away of such Calamities and Evils as our Church and Kingdom now do or at any time hereafter shall ly under That he who is the God and Father of mercies would at all times look down in mercy upon them and in his good time deliver them from all their distress and misery That there may not be such a time when the children shall be come to the birth and there shall not be strength to bring forth 2 Kings 19.3 when we shall call upon God for succour and help and he will not hear us but that according to Solomon's prayer 1 Kings 8.52 his eyes may be open unto the supplication of his servants and of his people to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto him That his Church and Faithful Servants may be preserved in this and in all other fiery Tryals that shall befal them and from falling away from him and that they may not be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow and misery but may find help and comfort from above when they can meet with none here below That God would remove from us all spiritual blindness and carnal security that we may know and mind the things which belong to our Peace before they are quite removed from our eyes and it be too late That we may not be like the Church of the Laodiceans of whom it is said Rev. 3.17 Thou sayest I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked that we may not be in such an insensible and miserable condition as this but may see what great need we have to repent and amend That God would do good in his good pleasure unto our Zion Psal 51.18 and build the walls of our Jerusalem That he would heal all our dismal Breaches and Divisions and reconcile all our Dissensions which so much disturb our Peace and threaten us with farther misery That he would not prepare more work for the greedy and devouring Sword but that we may all study and practise his Gospel of Peace and Love and that every man may dwell safely under his vine and under his Fig-tree as it is said that Judah and Israel did all the days of King Solomon 1 Kings 4.25 For the removing of these and all other afflictions and miseries that we are sensible that our Church and Kingdom do now or hereafter may ly under are we to make supplication to Almighty God and to intreat him that he would look down in mercy upon them and heal all their wounds and maladies in his good time And these things we are to pray for according to the Prophet's form Jer. 14.7 O Lord tho' our iniquities testify against us do thou it for thy Name 's sake for our back-slidings are many we have sinned against thee And not for our own sakes but for his great mercy's ●ake and for his dear Son Christ Jesus's sake are we to intreat him for the preventing of Judgments and for the removing of such miseries and and sufferings as do at any time befal our Church and Kingdom We are also to supplicate the divine Goodness of Almighty God for our Church and Kingdom that he would be pleased to continue to them such Mercies as they enjoy and that he would grant to them such Blessings and good things as they want and stand in need off That our Church and Kingdom may enjoy all manner of Peace and Prosperity in such a full manner as I have before described That God would make good to the Christian Church that in the Prophet Isaiah 62.1 That for Zion's sake he would not hold his peace and for Jerusalem's sake he would not rest until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth That the Gentiles might see the righteousness thereof and all Kings it's glory That it may be a Crown of Glory in the hand