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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45790	Divine contemplations, necessary for these times. By H.I.	Isaacson, Henry, 1581-1654.	1648 (1648)	Wing I1057A; ESTC R222591	27,531	74

it rained not on the earth by the space of three yeers and six moneths And he prayed again and the heaven gave rain and the earth brought forth her fruit Samuel having terrified the people for their ingratitude 1. King 17. 18. by thunder and rain in harvest ● Sa. 12.18 was entreated by the people to pray to God on their behalf to withdraw that judgement from them which he did Yet a little neerer to our selves The people in the absence of Moses cause Aaron to make a golden Calf God is highly displeased with them and saith to Moses Ex. 32.10.11.14 Let me alone that I may consume them Moses besought the Lord for them and he was appeased In the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah Gen 19.19 and the countrey round about Let by prayer preserved Zoar. Jonah being sent by God denounceth destruction to the great city Ninive The king and the people betake themselves to prayer and repentance Jon 3.4 10 and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them and he did it not In particular cases we finde Gen. 32 9. Jacob prayed for deliverance from the wrath of his brother Esau and had it 1. Sam. 1.11 Hannah from barrennesse of womb and the Lord heard her By prayer Jer. 40. Jeremiah was comforted in the dungeon and released Dan. 6.22 Daniel saved from the violence of the lyons Job was preserved upon the dunghil Luk. 23 42. The Thief found Paradise upon the Crosse Act. 12.5 And Peter was delivered from prison by the prayers of the Church If any wanted necessaries they prayed to God for them As Jacob for bread Gen. 28.20 and raiment If for wisdom to manage their calling as Solomon he begged 1. Kin. 3 9. and had it in large measure If they lay sick and desired health as Hezekiah 2. Kin. 20.6 upon his prayer to God he had not onely the sentence of death revoked but fifteen yeers added to his life In the new Testament we finde th● duty in great estimation Our Savi●● to encourage us not that he had ne●● himself oft times used to pray and gave us a rule Luc 21 36 Pray alwayes So did the Apostle Paul 1. Thes 5.17 Pray without ceasing And the Fathers and Doctours in the Primitive church gave prayer many encomioms stiling it the key of heaven and practised it oftner then any other religious duty Nay in those times as the best things may in time be corrupted some there were the Psalliam or Euchite that prayed so much that they which should hear of it saith Augustine would think it incredible and were therefore numbred among the Heretiques of that age Their errour grew upon the misunderstanding of those words of our Saviour and of the Apostle of praying alwayes and without ceasing which as the Fathers expound them was that men should allot some time daily for performing the duty of prayer But we wretched creatures a thing much to be lamented in these very times of heavy and bitter afflictions when heaven it self the elements and all creatures else seem to be sensible of them we I say do not so much as think of amendment of life nor seek we to God by prayer but in these extremities have recourse to the arm of flesh and rely upon our own strength and wisdoms them which God being neglected nothing is more vain and helplesse Nay being already stricken Jer 5 3. we have not grieved being almost consumed we have refused to receive correction We have made our faces harder then a rock we have refused to return And as it was in the prophet Esays time Isa 22.12 In that day a day like ours did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping and mourning and to baldnesse and to girding with sackcloth And behold joy and gladnesse 13. slaying oxen and killing sheep eating flesh and drinking wine Let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall die Insomuch as God may again take up that complaint which he did long since Jer. 2.30 In vain have I smitten your children they received no correction And it 's no marveile we coming so short in this duty of prayer of those which have gone before us that all the elements conspire against us nor is it wonder if we feel daily the revenging hand of God which prayer only as it were tyes up in greater measure then they felt it Therefore are we much to be blamed for though we conceive that God● judgements lye heavier upon us then upon any Nation of former ages yet we procrastinate and put off from us this wholsome remedy of prayer Our necessities are present why seek we not for present help Do we know whither we shall have time to pray while too morrow how dare we then promise so much to our selves The Parable of the foolish Virgins should teach us to take the present time for none ever escaped unpunished that neglected and let slip the time and opportunity of Gods mercy The Prophets counsell was Seek the Lord while he may be found Isa 35 6. call upon him while he is neer We are daily frighted with many fears and those not causelesse one plague one judgement suceeeds another nor are we free either within or without us from divine vengeance In these extremities what more present remedy or help can we finde then by calling upon God and casting our cares upon him Is any afflicted saith the Apostle Let him pray Jam. 5 13. If crosses dangers sicknesse warre famine pestilence tempestuous weather want or other calamity hang over our heads or befall us what is to be done Let us pray If the sence of our sinnes trouble us as well they may if the fear of eternall death the wages of sin afflict us Let us pray for prayer is the life and soul of the soul and so profitable a duty so necessary that the soul health life it self and all we have depend upon it Then why do we so much neglect it so little regard it why have we not recourse to God by daily and fervent prayers especially in these times when we have more need of his help and succour then ever before The Church is rent and torn the Kingdom distracted and even at the brink of ruine and destruction Can we behold these desolations with dry eyes without bleeding hearts shall we not deprecate Gods anger and imprecate his favour and become humble suppliants to him to pardon our great and manifold sins and to avert these his heavy judgements from us shall the heauens seem to mourn and shall not we shall we not If a man have lost all that he possessed and become blinde lame and infirme this man must either beg or starve and perish Certainly we have lost by our transgressions all the good we had and therewith all the gifts and graces of grace and nature what then remains but that like

the Majestie of God as rebellious to his commands as unthankfull for his mercies as impenitent for all our offences as the Jews or any Nation under heaven and therefore are deservedly under as great judgements as they were What course is then to be taken by us to appease the wrath of an angry God justly conceived against us Certainly none other but the means which hath been ever applied in the like case which is Prayer We being in the same condition why should we not apply the same remedy Who can tell if God will turn and repent Jon. 3 9. and turn away from his fierce anger that wee perish not God is the same that he ever was and proclaimed himself The Lord The Lord God mercifull and gracious long suffering and abundant in goodnesse and truth If wee turn to him by serious repentance and by Prayer qualified with zeal faith confidence and perseverance conforming our wills unto his onely waving all worth and merits in our selves and our prayers and acknowledging our own unworthynesse and trusting in the merits of our blessed Saviour Christ Jesus onely with full resolution to amend our lives for the future he will say to us as he hath done before Je● 18 7. At what instant I shall speak concerning a Nation and concerning a Kingdom 8 to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy it If that Nation against whom I have pronounced turn from their evil I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them Let us therefore humble our selves and that speedily Zep. 2.1 It was the Prophets counsel to Judah Gather your selves together yea gather together O nation not desired 2. Before the decree bring forth before the day passe as the chaffe before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you before the day of the Lords anger come upon you Pacifie the Lords wrath before it break out It 's kindled already we know but if it once break out into flame and that a fierce one ●am 4 11. who can quench it The Lord saith the Prophet hath powred out his fierce anger and hath kindled a fire in Zion and it hath devoured the foundations thereof If the foundations be destroyed the superstructure must needs fail that is an universall destruction must needs follow That we may in time prevent this let us pray to God in the first place to give us grace to pray aright and then to give a blessing even that wee pray for his favour and the light of his countenance and then wee shall enjoy our hearts desire Let us pray and say Da pacem domine in diebus nostris peace here and hereafter peace of conscience peace with God and man let the judgement of warre cease in this land and Da nobis domine panem quotidianum our daily bread food and sustenance remove the judgements of famine and pestilence Lord from us and continue us in health give such things as will stand with thy good pleasure to give us Give us the Bread of life Jo. 6.35 even Christ Jesus that so we may serve thee joyfully here in the Kingdome of grace and raigne with thee eternally in the Kingdome of glory Ne deficias in oratione August Deus quod concessurus est si differt uon aufert Nemo gratis orat Omnis oratio modo seria sit semper fructuosa erit Faint not in Prayer God doth onely deferre not deprive us of that he intends to give us No man prayeth in vain Every Prayer alwayes returns with fruit so it be serious PRAYERS FOR THE TIMES For Peace O Almighty God and most mercifull Father who by thy Son Jesus Christ hast valued Peace at so high a rate that thou hast stiled the lovers and procurers thereof the Children of thee O God the last Legacy of thy Sonne to his disciples being Peace and thou thy self being also pleased to be intituled the God of Peace it being one of the fruits of God the holy Spirit behold we beseech thee thy poor and wretched people deprived of this unvaluable blessing and miserably afflicted with a raging intestine Warre Wee confesse O Lord that this judgement is justly befalne us for our manifold and grievous sins among which our unthankfulnes for and not making true use of so happy a peace which we so long enjoyed is not the least And now O Lord in that neither thy promises could allure us nor thy threats and menaces terrifie us nor thy judgements upon our neighbouring and other Nations forewarne us of what might come upon us but that our rebellions transcend all former presidents thou hast suffered thy whole displeasure to arise against us and caused us as instruments of thy wrath to execute thy vengeance upon our selves according to that in the Prophet Isa 19. ● They shall fight every one against his brother and every one against his neighbour and city against city And we have felt the curses threatned in thy law against rebellious sinners to have taken hold upon us Deut. 28.31 Thine oxa shall be slain before thine eyes and thou shalt not eat thereof Thine asse shall be violently taken from before thy face and shall not be restored to thee Thou shalt beget sonnes and daughters 41. but thou shalt not enjoy them all these curset shall come upon thee with many more there threatned till thou be destroyed 45. because thou hast not hearkned to the voice of the Lord thy God O Lord wee cannot but confesse that thou art just and thy judgments upright yet we humby beseech thee not to look upon us as sinners but as thy Children Correct us as a mercifull Father to amend us not as a severe judge utterly to consume us but stop we pray thee this issue of blood in the land before all the veines of it be empty and the whole Nation faint and perish Thou art our onely refuge therefore we flee to thee to releeve us And Lord we pray with thy servant David that if thou hast determined yet further to humble us for our rebellions and backslidings thou wouldst chastise us thy self 2. Sa. 24.14 Let us fall into thy hands for thy mercies are great and let us not fall into the hand of man for the mercies of the wicked are cruel Pro. 10.12 Lord we are ready to sinke under this heavy judgement If therefore it may stand with thy good pleasure remove it from us Psal 68.30 Suppresse those that are instrument in it Scatter the people that delight in warre Psal 35.5 Dissipate and frustrare their counsels Let them be as chaffe before the winde and let the Angel of the Lord chase them that are implacable enemies to peace Unite O Lord the mindes and affections of the Nation and let them be all as one Man Suffer not the hearts of those that are brethren 1 Cor. 6.15 and members of one body whereof Christ Jesus is the head to