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B03809	A declaration of the Lord Deputy and Council, for setting apart Thursday the 14th day of October next, as a day of solemn fasting and humiliation throughout this nation, with the grounds and reasons thereof.	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1658-1659 : Cromwell); Cromwell, Henry, 1628-1674.	1658 (1658)	Wing I382B; ESTC R178630	5,691	13

A DECLARATION of the LORD DEPUTY AND COVNCIL For setting apart Thursday the 14th day of October next as a day of solemn Fasting and Humiliation throughout this NATION With the Grounds and Reasons thereof By the Lord Deputy and Council ORdered by the Lord Deputy and Council That this Declaration be forthwith printed and published THO. HERBERT Cl. of the Council DVBLIN Printed by Wil. Bladen Anno Domini 1658. ¶ By the Lord Deputy AND COUNCIL H. Cromwell GOD blessed for evermore who worketh all things after the Counsel of his own will and giveth no account of any of his matters having lately taken from our heads our Chief Ruler under whose shadow we said we shall live the Instrument of his Hand whereby he hath wrought great things in and for these Nations calls out aloud upon us to consider it and to lay it to heart otherwise we may be sure there is evil to come and to prepare to meet our God even because he hath done this unto us We judg it our duty also to call upon all that fear the Lord in this Land to labour that they may be found of him with us in ways of unfeined Humiliation and Reformation if it may be a lengthening of our tranquillity For when the people turneth not to him that smiteth them neither do seek the Lord of Hoasts what can be expected but that he should set up Adversaries and joyn their enemies together who shall devour them with open mouth And in order to an universal Abasement and Amendment of our selves we think it most seasonable and needfull to stir up our selves and all under our care and charge seriously to consider That when Gods judgments of a publick and general concernment are abroad in a nation or among a people such a people ought to take special notice of Gods judgments Those that will not see when his hand is lifted up he will make them both see and feel too before he hath done with them It was EPHRAIM'S folly not to know when gray hairs signs of a decaying and declining condition were here and there upon him And it is one of the highest points of wisdom in the world to hear the audible and awful voice of the Rod and him who hath appointed it They ought also then to search out why the Lord contendeth with them to confess lay to heart and humble themselves solemnly for their sins procuring such judgments To pray and seek Gods face earnestly To reform themselves and their ways thoroughly and sincerely This is the work whereunto the Lord at this day calleth us And oh that our LORD when he cometh to take a view of us might through the help of his blessed Spirit find us so doing Consider we also that God hath taken away threatned to take away Chief Rulers and Governours and him that holdeth the Scepter both for the Sins of the Cheif Rulers themselves as for not believing fully in God for not Sanctifying God before the People and other miscarriages and for the Sins of the people under their Rule and Government as their relying and trusting to their own wisdom way and Arme of flesh rather then on the Lord their forgetting and forsaking God their despising his word and warnings their mocking and misusing his messengers their persisting and proceeding on still to do wickedly even in despight of all Gods mercyes and judgements their grieving the Spirits of their Rulers by their discontents murmurings and strivings and the like And for the sins of the Prophets and Ministers their unfaithfulness not discovering the peoples iniquities for preventing their captivity and calamity but seeing vain and foolish things for them and for the sins of former Rulers their Idolatry Blood guiltiness Profaneness these may bring on judgements and ruin notwithstanding the zeale and sincere endeavours of their Successors for a reformation How should the thoughts of these things pierce our hearts together with the sence of this severe stroak wherewith the Lord hath at once smitten not onely these three Nations but all the professors of the Protestant Religion Let us also consider further that God having honoured a people with great Privilidges Deliverances and Salvations doth sometimes after all the good that he hath done them again do them hurt judge and destroy them and that especially for their ingratitude towards God notwithstanding all his great goodness when they render not again according to the benefit done unto them for their turning away their faces from the habitation of the Lord and turning their back upon him his Worship and Ordinances for their Vnbelief Idolatry Vncleanness height of Impiety and profaneness for their Sorcery Blood Oppression and violence dishonest gain and theft profanation of the Sabboth pollution of Gods Ordinances violation of his Covenant Cursing Swearing and for swearing for their Murmuring against God and his Vice-gerents when afflictions press them for their Barrenness under the means of grace and contempt of the messengers thereof for their hatred to Reformation and Enmity against Christ and his Kingdom and for their incorrigibleness and impenitency in all these notwithstanding all his smitings Now shall not the Lord visit for these things and shall not his Soul be avenged on those that wallow in the guilt and filth of them And are there not with us even with us such Sins as these to be found against the Lord our God Are there not gross Heresies and horrid Blasphemies in the midst of us much Superstition and Idolatry Ignorance and Blindness not onely of the Papists but of the generality of Protestants also deadness and unprofitableness under the most lively and powerful means neglect contempt reproach and prophanation of all the Ordinances of the Gospel and instituted worship of the Lord Iesus VVhat abuse of the glorious and dreadful name of the Lord our God not onely by customary and rash Oaths and imprecations which are usually interwoven with the language of the Natives but also by formal giving and taking of oaths even in Courts and places of judicature and by sleight and heartless discourses of Divine things most men vain-gloriously aiming more therein to express their own guifts then to attain or exercize grace or to minister and communicate it unto others VVhat despising undermining and opposing the work call office and persons of Gospel-Ministers VVhat profaning the Lords-day not onely like beasts in wayes of pleasure but like Devils spending that day in sin against the Lord which should be spent in nigher communion with him VVhat unthankfulness for mercies enjoyed VVhat fighting against God after mercies under mercies yea with our very mercies VVhat loathing and making light of all that which we have and do receive because of the absence of some particulars which we desire And hath not Blood here reached blood under the guilt whereof these Lands may yet justly be made to mourn the blood of the Innocent shed by Enemies and even the blood of the nocent shed by our selves in an undue manner

without that grief and tenderness of Spirit vvhich became the followers of the Lamb the Lord Iesus VVhat panting hath there been amongst us after the dust of the earth as if all would not suffice for every man to take an handful VVhat labouring to load our selves with thick clay VVhat covetous and greedy heaping up wordly Riches without regard to be rich in good works rich in faith poor in spirit what seeking rather after a seeming then a real greatness rather to be great in the sight of men then in the sight of the Lord what resolving to get earth though with the loss of Heaven what oppressing the poor Inhabitant to ease and gratify the rich in the apportioning and applotting the publique burthens and taxes what depriving the poorer sort of the price and purchase of his blood and labour by hard and circumventing bargains insnaring agreements and yet that daughter of the horse Leach still crying give give VVhat divisions and breaches have there been amongst Brethren and how many sinfull consequencies of those divisions whispering slandering backbiting reviling and an anger which teares perpetually whereof God complaineth by the Prophet AMOS VVhat sinful compliances even of subordinate Magistrates Justices of the Peace Officers of the Army Ministers of the Gospel and others with the unfruitful works of darkness not onely omitting the due Execution of the good Laws concerning Reformation but too much patronizing wicked men in their evil ways for carnal ends by which means also that great work of our Generation in subduing the Irish Papists to the scepter of JESUS CHRIST and removing from them the occasions of sin in their usage of many barbarous and brutish customs hath been in all places obstructed and in most totally neglected How little have godliness and honesty been regarded by many Magistrates as if to see to these were not included in their Commission How little have many Ministers attended the catechizing the ignorant visiting the sick rebuking the profane instructing from house to house the due exercize of discipline and right administration of Sacraments whereby not onely the popish and profane have been more alienated than ever from the truths and ways of God but ignorance heresie heathenism and atheism increased and through long fasting from the Institutions of Christ many have lost their stomachs and some that very life which appeared formerly to act in them and others unworthily partaking thereof have been hardened and nuzled up in their evil ways and sealed up under wrath and condemnation How have Family duties in most places been neglected even to provoke the LORD to pour out his wrath upon them as upon the heathens that call not on his name VVhat infidelity and distrustfulness have prevailed in many spirits in relation to our late Supream Magistrate as if the Author of our mercies did not continue his cause the same if that eminent instrument were removed Though we have so many precious promises so many strengthening experiences as stays props to our hope even under the greatest shakings and many soverain Cordials to prevent fainting God not having left himself without many witnesses to his mercie even to this day of trouble and treading down which otherwise would have been indeed a day of grief and of desperate sorrow And how great hath been the Ingratitude and murmuring peevishness of others as if our mercies were not mercies because themselves were not the pipes of conveyance or because those waters came not so plentifully into their Cisterns as unto others These and such like sins as these seem stampt as it were on the face of this judgment and are to be especially eyed in the frown thereof And are they Christians are they men who are without the sense of these things Have we like sheep wandered from our Shepheard and from one another in this our sun-shine It is just for our God to send such a storm to drive us together and into his fold Have we played with the candle that burned so brightly among us consuming himself to guide and refresh these Nations or have we puffed at it it is just for God to put it out And doth not the LORD now call from heaven unto us as sometimes he did to backsliding ISRAEL Gather your selves together yea gather your selves search and sift your selves O Nation not desired before the decree bring forth which seems now to hasten to the birth before the day pass as the chaf before all your light and joy and peace and plenty be blown away by the blast of the Lords displeasure before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you before the day of the Lords anger come upon you And we can not forbear but call upon all the Lords people in this Land as MOSES sometimes did to the Israelites VVho is on the Lords side among you Consecrate your selves to day unto the Lord even every man by punishing and witnessing against sin in his son and in his brother and especially by doing execution upon it in himself That he may bestow a blessing upon us this day Let us with one heart and mouth say To us belongeth confusion of face to our Princes to our fathers and to our children because we have sinned against the Lord Let us bewail and repent of our former doings which were not good not onely by sorrowing for them for there is sorrow enough even in hell not onely by wishing them undone for so far even Iudas went but by true repentance from dead works turning again to the Lord to serve the living God Let all the Magistrates of the Land let all the Gospel-Ministers let all the Officers and Souldiers let both great and small renew their Covenant and engage their souls and give the hand unto the Lord and unto Vs who do stretch forth ours unto you saying Come and let us return unto the Lord for he hath torn and he will heal us he hath smitten and he will bind us up And for our further help both in returning to him and gaining some comfortable evidence that he doth accept us and will heal us It is ordered That Thursday the fourteenth day of October next be kept as an Holy day of Fasting and Prayer unto the Lord That thereon we may afflict our souls before him and lament not so much the fall of our Crown and chief ornament as our sins that caused it That the eyes of all our Tribes as of one man may be toward the Lord to beg mercy for his poor Church here on earth scattered over the face of the whole world That the Rightousness thereof may go forth as brightness and the Salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth and particularly for that part thereof which his own Right-hand hath planted in these Nations That he would extend peace unto it like a River and glory like a flowing stream and to that end That he would make his face to shine upon his Servant whom the good hand of his providence hath now set over us that as he hath called him to this great and weighty work so he would carry him through it all his dayes in the everlasting Armes of his power and goodness to the glory of his own name and the joy of these Nations that so he may prove the Minister of God indeed to us for good for all manner of good natural moral civil Spiritual That he would bless his HIGHNESS Councils in these three Nations and cloath them with a spirit sutable to their stations and all other inferior Magistrates That the mountains may drop down new wine and the hills flow with milk that the mountains may bring forth peace unto the people and the little hills by rightousness That he would bless his HIGHNESS Forces both at home and abroad by land and sea with the continuance of a spirit of love and faithfulness and with good success in all their lawful undertakings That he would establish and strengthen his confederacies with other Nations so far as may tend to the propagating the Gospel and to the preservation and prosperity of the poor Protestants in other Countreys That he would set up burning and shining lights in all the dark corners of this land and bless the labours of those whom he hath already set and made faithful to the bringing in and building up of many souls through the fellowship of the gospel in an everlasting fellowship with the Father the Son by the communion of the holy Ghost And it is further Ordered That the Sherifs of the several Counties in this Nation do forthwith after receipt hereof distribute the said Declarations to all and every the Ministers within their respective Balywicks to the intent that seasonable and publick notice may be given unto the People by the Ministers in every their respective Parishes and Congregations upon the Lords-day preceding the said fourteenth day of October And the said Ministers are also to read this Declaration unto the People at their being assembled upon the said Fast-day appointed to be celebrated For the better observation whereof the servile works of mens ordinary Callings are to be forborn upon that day And all Sherifs Mayors Governors of Garrisons Iustices of the Peace Constables and other Officers Civil and Military are to take care that the said day be solemnly kept and observed Dated at the Council-chamber in Dublin the 24. day of September 1658. W. Steele Can● R. Pepys Miles Corbet William Bury