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A16892	The fourth part of the true watch containing prayers and teares for the churches. Or A helpe to hold up the hearts and hands of the poorest servants of God, untill our Lord Iesus Christ shall have rescued his glorie, kingdome, and people in all the world, and fully prepared the way to his most glorious appearing.; True watch. Part 4	Brinsley, John, fl. 1581-1624.	1624 (1624)	STC 3788; ESTC S119302	193,245	564

whatsoever might any vvay offend thy most holy eyes Though I be weake and unworthy and have had exceeding many slips wants and faylings yet for the worthyness of thy Christ admit of those though so feeble desires which thou hast vouchsafed me Giue me my press-money the earnest and seale of thy holy Spirit My heart is prepared to doe thee the faithfullest service that ever thou shalt enable me Lord by such poore weake Wretches and at their praiers thou hast bin wont to get thy selfe the victorie that no flesh should rejoyce in thy presence but that all glorie honour and praise may be given to thee alone for evermore Reasons to be seriously weighed that onely such can looke or hope to have acceptance here 1. THat these onely are in a true League Covenant with God and thereupon are such as his heavenly Majestie doth not disdaine to call his Friends as Abraham was called the Friend of God And therefore they though they be but dust and ashes may presume through the merit of the Lord Iesus to intreat even for filthy Sodom yea to importune his heavenly Majesty and expect to obtaine of him that if there bee but ten righteous persons in five wicked cities he wil spare all for ten sake These onely are fit men to helpe by their prayers to rescue their Brethren out of the hands of Sathan and of all their cruell enemyes vvhich have carried them away Captives and who do so insult triumph over all and over the Lord himself as thinking that they have already made a conquest of all These are the men and these alone vvhich can with Moses stay the lords hands that he should not destroy his people These are they to whom God can deny nothing Onely these who having thus put their shooes off their feet are fit with that holy Moses to stand before the Lord to be sent to fetch his people their brethren out of Egypt from the Tile-killes and to pull them out of the middest of the fire These are with Aaron thorow the continuall intercession of our great High-Priest meete to helpe to pacifie the Lords displeasure towards the remnant of his people to stand betweene the living and the dead These being supported by Aaron and Hur can holde up their hands till God have got himselfe a glorious victory against Amalek These and these alone are able with Iosuah to cause the Sunne to stand still so farre as the Lord shall see it best for his owne glory until he shall be avenged of all his enemies and therfore much more may they be confident in matters of less moment For vvhat cannot the prayer of Faith bring to passe These men are able with Eliah to moove the Lord so farre as in his divine wisedome he shall see it best to send fire from Heaven to consume their Sacrifices and to make knowne to all that he hath accepted them And moreover to move the Lord to manifest to all the World and that as clearely as if hee spake from Heaven who is the Lord which is his true religion and which the false who they are that are the true children of Iesus Christ and who they are of the otherside that are the Servants of Sathan and Antichrist who are with him who against him These are they who vvith Mordokey and Hester and the rest of the faithfull amongest the Iewes are able to obtain the reversing of that most bloody decree procured by wicked Haman against Gods people although it be to doe all the decrees of the Medes Persians such as to man seemeth impossible euer to bee reversed and to cause Haman to be hanged upon his owne Gallowes To turne the plot devised agaynst Gods people to their joyfullest day a day to be remembred for ever a day of shame and confusion to all Gods enemies These are they whose praiers come up before the Lord as the prayers of holy Daniel Cornelius and Peter and who may looke for an answer from heaven at the evening Sacrifice above all that they can imagine even by the ministery of Gods blessed Angels so farre as shall be best These are they that in the greatest perils of the Church may hope through their praiers with holy Paul to save themselves and all in the Ship with them in such sort as the heavenly Wisedome shall see it best that at least they may swimme out though for not hearkning unto the Lord in time they may all first suffer shipwracke and be 〈◊〉 into the Sea These are they with whom at their cryes our Lord Iesus will be as he was with those three Worthies of the Captivitie in the middst of the hot fiery Furnace and in the verie Lyons den with holy Daniel to stop the mouthes of those hunger-bitten Lyons that the least hurt shall not come unto them more then shal be for his eternall glory with the greater good of his Church People and by whose trialles our blessed God and tender Father hath made knowne the truth of his Religion and of his causes with the innocencie of his people to Kings Princes and Rulers and to cause it by them to be published as it were to the world like as he did when it was commanded by them to bee spred and divulged in all the Dominions of the mightie Monarchs and so from them to goe to all other Nations with whom any of them had any trafficke or familiaritie And by whom he hath beene wont to effect accomplish his owne glorious workes as he hath foretold above all that any of his owne deerest Servants could ever imagine o●… could have beene perswaded of by any humane reason that they could ever haue bin brought to pass And thus much for this generall Meditation viz who they be that exclude themselves and also who they are and who alone that can ever looke to be committed as approved of the Lord for this blessed and glorious worke And how wee must strive to passe thorow all the difficulties before wee can approach with any true confidence and assurance to put our hand hereto and much more so as to bee able to preuaile with our God to bee made as his Israel and what confident boldnesse we may houe herein for that if wee bee such as these our God is stil the same hee is not changed neither is there with him any variablenesse or shadowing by turning The seuenth generall Meditation That the Lord notwithstanding graciously cals all sorts to be his helpers herein and therefore every one who will not strive to bee of this number and come to bee on his side must perish and doth iustly bring upon himselfe swift damnation IN this seuenth place the Lord would have us seriously to lay to heart out of all these Meditations the blessed estate and honour of them who are called and admitted to

our Lord Iesus Christ to escape the ●…orment which they must otherwise indure with them for evermore OH Lord God most holy and most righteous thou hast said thou wilt bee sanctisied in all that draw nee●…e unto thee and therefore as thou ar●… infinite in mercy towards all those who unfeignedly feare thy holy name and ●…mble at thy word and w●…t ●…eale thy secrets unto them and make them of thy privi●… counsell so thou art most dreadfull terrible unto all other who regard thee not in any such holy manner as to 〈◊〉 thee and to receive the lo●… of thy most sacred truth Awaken we beseech t●…ee all those who are drunke with the wine of Popery and superstition that ●…t length they may behold in what ●… fearfull and desparate state they stand under the power of Sathan and Antichrist ready to bee ●…st into hell every moment of time Make them able to consider aright of the just 〈◊〉 which thou hast threatned to follow the contempt of thy Gospell chiefly in the dayes of Antichrist and whether for that very 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 have not deserved it to come upon them That therefore thou wilt send upon them strong delusions that they shall beleeve lyes and be damned because they would not receive the love of thy sacred truth so as to obey it that they might be saved Make them to bethinke themselves wisely seriously and as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 presence what iniquity they have found in thee 〈◊〉 in our way of life or ●…n 〈◊〉 ●…ow they ●…de in Baptisme that they have so 〈◊〉 renounced and abjured it and depar●…d from the bo●… of their mother to ca●…t her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and with her ●…hine owne ●…jesty ●…o fearfully ●…o 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●… 〈◊〉 of their 〈◊〉 blindnesse and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 through 〈◊〉 strong 〈◊〉 where●…●…o many 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bene and are dayly so carried away to that Idolatrous religion Go●… Lord make them able to discerne how grosse palpabl●… those lyes are wherby the ●…cers doe bewitch them as ●…amely that so lately divulged of the Twenty severall sorts of Bibles which within th●…se s●…w yeares past England hath brought forth Cause them by this one to discerne of all the rest of their delusions when they dare proclai●… such notorious lyes before al●… the world as every poore simple body may understand see an●…●…ust needs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 them all t●…t 〈◊〉 ●…nto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 conceive in due time that this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all other their most deep●… and 〈◊〉 ●…entions whereby they seek●…●…o raise a sland●…r upon thine owne Me●… 〈◊〉 truth and people to make their poore seduced Pros●…lites to abhor●… them and so to roote out both the remembrance of thy great n●…me of thy Religion and people from the face of the 〈◊〉 Make them to weigh well how they have do deceive and most shamefully abuse them all in perswading of them that they have moe devotion in their Church then we in ours and that therefore they are to joyne themselves to t●…em when as they have hardly the tenth part of the bookes of devotion and others tendi●…g thereunto viz to ●…orther Religion and god●… which the ignorant ●…ort can come by which w●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ours and much less of 〈◊〉 S●…mons tending to the ●…ame Cause them to have a true sense of that delusion that they tell them that their devotions are more holy then ours when as ours are grounded directly upon thy most blessed and eternall word theire upon doctrin●… and traditions of men 〈◊〉 the doctrines of 〈…〉 of sinne 〈…〉 thy glory th●…t 〈…〉 may 〈…〉 thee their ●…o 〈…〉 thee of thine honour 〈◊〉 giving it to 〈…〉 tend onely to 〈…〉 Lord Iesus Christ 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 many other thing 〈…〉 place of him 〈…〉 which 〈…〉 wholy to 〈…〉 pride of m●…n theirs ●…o 〈◊〉 him up like Lucifer Make them to concelve aright how ours helpe us to understand and keepe our Baptisme vow Covenant with our God theirs to keepe them in ignorance of it all their dayes Ours teach us to sight ●…anfully under the banner of our Lord Iesus and for him o●…ely their 's to sight desparately against him and all his armies ours teaching and helping us to walke in the narrow path prescribed by ●…hee our blessed Lord and Saviour theirs to kill all who will not runne with them into by-paths and the broad way leading to hell How ours instruct and guide us to live onely the life of faith directed by thy heavenly word their 's the life of unbeleefe having nothing for the ground but the meere word of sinfull man how ours teach and direct us to live the life of faith by a particul●…●…plying of Christ 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 so truly ingrafting ●…d in co●…porating us into Christ 〈◊〉 by his holy Spirit and thereby making us good trees 〈◊〉 wee may bring forth good fruite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to beleeve in generall and as the Church beleeves without any such particular application which ●…aith of theirs can neuer bring forth the ●…ound fruites of ●…anctification and true righteonsnesse especially when they scorne and persecute this true and saying faith as fantasticall and vaine Good Father 〈◊〉 these poore soules to understand and know how ours directe us to live the life of true godlinesse guided by thy word and Spirit which alone 〈◊〉 all the promises for this and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 life theirs teaching chiefly to live the life of superstition by bodily exerci●… themselves in such works 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 never required in any such manner O●… perswade them all how our●… bring to y● true practisers of them full assurance of thy 〈◊〉 and love and thereby ●…oy unspeakable glorious theirs bringing nothing but onely a ●…aggering hope so still doubting whether they be in thy favour or not which very doubting when the conscience shall bee thoroughly awaked will bring the very flashings of hell fire upon them How ours are heaven upon earth their 's hell upon earth ours the sweetest in the end when as each of them done in faith hath a reward promised thereunto their 's the bitterest in the end when instead of reward thou wilt demand concerning the best of them done without warrant of the word who hath required these things 〈◊〉 your hands Good Lord 〈…〉 hearts according 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 that our devotion●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our Religion to 〈…〉 ●…oly and un●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the widdow and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 theirs to make them polluted with lying and all filthy 〈◊〉 as in their 〈◊〉 and other chiefe perswa●… to that Idolatry yea with the blood of Innocents to destroy the widdow and the fatherlesse out of the earth even all truly professing Christe name ●…o that their religion i●… the most polluted with lying and murder of ●…nnocents of all other Religions that ever 〈◊〉 in the world whereby their 〈…〉 Lord bring to their understandings and cause them to thinke of it and ponder it wel that all our devotions as our

so gloried and triumphed long agoe as if it had beene already fully effected and dispatched That some of these must of necessity come to pass if wee judge according to the word of the Lord or but to common reason wee haue just cause to fear for want of performance of our promises of repentance For that here unto we have so oft and so solemnly bound our selves every one at least by those in our places I meane by our Magistrates and Ministers as namely we did in those sundry and solemne Fasts by commandement in the yere eighty eight when therupon our God shewed himselfe from heaven to fight for us as accepting our vowes and promises of true repentance and amendment and upon that condition ●…aring us to prove and t●…ie us what we would do and still from time to time yea from yeare to yeare and even from day to day expecting the true and unfeigned accomplishment thereof And more also by renewing our promises and vowes in all the Fasts which were after in the dayes of our gracious Deborah while we lived in feare of the time when she shold be taken from our head and of the many evils to follow thereuppon even that whereof our enemies were wont so to bragge that there would come a day and concerning which wee were still crying to our tender Father to save us from the danger and dread thereof Yea and yet more since that time when our God brought in our dread Soveraigne and set him so over us as if there had beene no change but all had beene done for the perpetuall establishing of us our posterity at what time he cast such a feare upon all the enemies that not a dogge wagged his tongue against any of the Israel of God What promises of thankfulnesse everie one of us did make who in any sort layd these things to heart by promising repentance and amendment of all our wayes and for ever to honor and obey our Lord Iesus Christ. And most of all when of al other times hee did most apparantly shew himselfe from heaven as reaching down his hand and plucking us all out of the very jawes of the devil and out of the middest of the Furnace where of all our holy and franke acknowledgments in our many Thankesgivings and Prayers extant in Print and commanded to be used practised generally and most solemnly once every yeare and all our good Lawes made thereupon shall ever beare witnesse against us before the Lord besides every one of our Covenants at our Baptisme wherewith we all stand obliged and multitudes of other promises whereby wee have also renewed our bonds unto this day So that wee are wisely to ponder how now at length all these must either worke to bring us to a sound and unfeigned performance of whatsoever wee have so promised and to a true submission to our Lord Iesus Christ or else arme him to come against us in his terrible vengeance for all our falsi●…ying of our vowes promises unto him and thus dallying with him and most heynously abusing his sacred Maiestie We are therefore never to rest untill wee have brought our hearts to a lively sence and true meditation of these things and how wee have indeed dissembled with his greatnesse and holinesse as our forefathers did which the Lord so complaines of so oft repeating it Then they cryed unto the Lord in their troubles and he delivered them from their distresse but they kept not his great goodnesse in remembrance but presently forgot his wonderous works and with them all their vowes and promises and did worse then their forefathers yea then ever they had done before And yet more then all the former this ought more deeply to pierce into our hearts that as wee have alwaies thus dealt with his heavenly Majestie so wee are now instead of repenting farre worse in every kinde and much further off from any hope of repenting or turning unfeignedly or so much as of humbling our selves in any such publick manner any more that the most godly and religious beginne to make doubt nay extreamely to feare and to be as it were out of all hope of any sound humiliation whereby to turne away the vengeance threat●…ned and each almost onely seeking to save his owne soule Together with all these and above all of them we are seriously and wisely to lay this to heart how the people of Iudah went farre further in performing their vowes both in the daies of that worthy Hezekiah and that holy Iosiah and in taking away all the abhominations whereby the Lord was provoked and also in restoring and performing all things which hee required in his Law and which they had promised for pacifying of his wrath even to a generall renewing the Covenant amongst all the people outwardly at least consenting thereto yet when the hearts of the people consented not so as did the hearts of their Kings and namely as did the heart of Iosiah which melted into teares for the abhominations and plagues nor yet continued but started backe from the Lord ever anon and fell to their ancient sinne againe the Lord after all their warnings brought upon them that terrible Captivitie for 70. yeares without any further sparing or remedy This he did unto them notwithstanding their good Kings and some worthy Rulers yea all their holy Prophets namely Ieremy so importuning him day and night Ezekiel falling upon his face and even expostulating with his Majestie for Ierusalem his owne Citty and for his people being as a brand pluckt out of the burning and notwithstanding their mourners mourning and crying for all the abhominations and lifting up hearts and hands day and night unto the Lord yea notwithstanding all his former indulgences and mercies all their priviledges and prerogatives and his covenant onely with them and all his gracious promises made to them above all the people of the earth Finally wee are ever to bee beating heereon what just cause wee have to thinke that he having remooved the Candlesticke from other Churches so sinning wee cannot escape but the longer his wayting and forbearing is the severer his vengeance must needs bee when it comes And above all these we are to labour to bring our hearts to a due consideration and wise fore-sight hereof that howsoever it goe for the generall that the Lord shall save us which wee still and ever pray for or doe still deferre his wrath at the cryes of his owne deare children who stand in the breach and though he may spare us in the bowels of his compassion thus earning over us as sometimes hee did over Ephraim in like case●… O my people how should I leave thee up to so many miseries as thine enemies are devising and practising against thee how shall I leave my great name to be blasphemed amongst my proud enemies or though he doe still save us like as