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A45957 An invitation to a solemn day of humiliation (viz. the third day of the seventh moneth, 57.) to the Lords people in the three nations who are sensible of the great dishonour of God; and desire to approve themselves faithfull to God and his work in this day of division and apostacy. 1657 (1657) Wing I289A; ESTC R213866 2,654 1

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An INVITATION to a Solemn Day of HUMILIATION viz. the third day of the seventh Moneth 57. to the Lords People in the three Nations who are sensible of the great dishonour of God and desire to approve themselves Faithfull to God and his Work in this day of Division and Apostacy THe Lord God by a series of remarkable and extraordinary providences hath for severall years given occasion to his People throughout these three Nations as to remember and praise him for his wonderfull gracious dealings so to make inquiry into his wise and good ends with the externall causes of the late strange and sad transactions among us and of the lamentable and miserable effects already appearing and which must further unavoidably follow if the Lords rich grace even beyond our apprehensions doth not prevent We also observing both in our selves and others too too little sense of the great dishonor of our good God the burthen of reproach and rebuke of Christ his Cause Kingdome People Ways and most glorious works ly under by reason of the great sins of all sorts of Professors and of the grievous Apostacy of those who make themselves transgressors by building the things they had destroyed that God had heretofore made usefull for the recovery of his People and these Nations out of the hands of their Persecutors and Oppressors we say upon these considerations being met together to seek the face of God desirous to prove what is that good and acceptable will of his it came into our hearts to set a part one or more solemn dayes to humble our souls for our own and the sins of all Gods People which may provoke the eyes of his glory as also for the abominations of this day and likewise to wrastle with the Lord for the great things of his Name his Son and Syon for which purpose we have agreed upon the 3. day of the next Moneth being the 7. commonly called September being the fifth day of the week called Thursday which we are encouraged to recommend to all that fear the Lord who desire to be preserved from and to mourn under the evills of this Generation that we might with one accord as one man call upon the name of the Lord Whereunto we are the more induced from the consideration of the commendable practice of the Lords People formerly as of Esther Mordecai Ezra Nehemia c. as also the Lords People of latter times the good old Puritans in the dayes of the Prelates and many of the Army and others in the late Wars Moreover it is commanded * Esth 4.5 Ez. 8.213 Est 9.3.5 Neh. 9. ● Zeph. 3.7 ●ach 8.21 ●2 Heb. 10.14 ●5 and promised by the Lord that his People shall pray and seek unto him together and serve him with one consent and it is their duty by how much the more the day of the Lord approacheth to assemble themselves together and be provoking each other thereunto Further God seems to call upon us by his many signes which may presage the approaching of speciall mercies or signal judgments With all many or most of Gods People complain of a decay and declining especially of late in this spiritual duty by means wherof their hearts grow harder and straighter and wickednesse and worldlinesse abounds this also might be added that there is no other doore open wherein we may hope at this juncture more to serve the will of God and our Generation than by a diligent and more than ordinary attending the throne of grace untill the Lord have mercy and reign righteousness upon us And as a farther Provocation to that duty of Prayer in generall we add the following Motives Because this is a day of trouble and rebuke Psalm 50.15 Neh. 1.3 4 Esay 37.3 4. This is an houre of Temptation Mat. 26.41 Luke 21.35 36. And a day of Apostasie Jude 20. And prayer is a choise piece of the spirituall Armour Ephes 6.18 Prayer is Gods delight Prov. 15. v. 18. Cant. 2.14 It is of great power and prevalency with God Gen. 32.26 28. Exo. 32.10 11 14. Jam. 5.16 and hath effected strange and marvellous things Jam. 5.17 18. 1 King 18.36 38. 2 King 6.17 18. Esay 37.15 21 22. and 36. 2 Chron. 14.11 12. Acts 12.5 6 c. Though God will deal graciously with his people yet he waits to hear their cry Esa 30.14 And as he hath bound himself to give so his People to ask 1 King 3.5 2 Sam. 7.27 Psal 2.8 Psal 72. v. 8.15 Esa 62.5 6 7. Ezek. 36.36 37. The People and Work of God want reviving Ezra 9.8 Hab. 3.2 They are destitute Psal 102.17 18. And are waiting as Daniel for Israels Redemption Dan. 9.2 3 4. And as Jehosaphat not knowing what to do save to have their eyes to the Lord. This is a Command with speciall promises annexed Jer. 33.3 Luke 11.9 10. Psalm 18.10 more particular first They that seek the Lord may be hid and spared in the day of his anger Zeph. 2.3 Ezek. 9.4.6 Mal. 3.16 17. Esa 65.10 Secondly They shall understand all things Prov. 28.5 Jam. 1.5 Luk. 11.13 Thirdly Their hearts shall live Ps 69.32 and 22.26 And they grow stronger whilest others faint and faile Esa 40.31 Fo●thly They shall be saved from their enemies Psalm 18.3 56.9 Fifthly They shall glorifie God Psal 22.26 and 50.15 Sixthly They shall lack no good thing Psal 34.10 24.5 6. Seventhly They shall be delivered out of their distresses and led in a right way Ps 107.6 7. Jer. 31.9 Never any sought God in vain Esa 45.19 Psal 9.10.145.18 19. Having thus signified the thoughts and desires of our hearts we shall leave all to the Leading of Gods gracious Spirit Not judging it convenient to point out unto others the particulars to be Prayed for Though we finde not onely our selves but the generality of Saints agreeing a Mat. 18.19 Act. 2.1 2 c. to aske the more full performance of the great b Luke 24.49 Act. 1.4 Promise of the Father even c Joel 2.28 Isa 32.15 the pouring out of the Spirit That he would d Isa 25.7 Ha. 2.13 14 destroy the face of the covering cast over all people and the vaile that is cast over all Nations In particular e 2 Cor. 3.14 15 16 Rom 11 12. the vaile upon the hearts of the Jews that they might turn to the Lord. So f Ps 90.13 14 15 16 17 and 80.14 15.18 the raising up of the hearts of the Lords People in his Work and Wayes And the g Hab. 3.2 Ezr. 9.8 reviving of his great work which he had begun in these Nations The h Josh 7. Psal 125.4 5 140.11 1 King 18 17 18 c. discovering and removing all the Achans and Troublers The i Rev. 18.4 Zach. 3.2 2 Tim 3.1 2 5. plucking all Zions Children out of Babylon With the k Isa 57.14 removing of all stumbling blocks out of their way The l Ps 94.15 Isa 61.11 returning of judgement unto righteousness The m Ps 133.1 Zep. 3.9 n 2 Tim. 2.24 Mat. 25.4.10 uniting of all the upright in heart And making them meet for the masters use Briefly the o 2 Thes 2.8 Rev. 18.21 utter ruine of the whole Kingdome of the man of Sin In order to Christs p Isa 32.1 Reigning in Righteousnesse over q Rev. 15.3 Saints and all r Jer. 10.7 Dan. 7.14 Ps 2.8 72.8 Nations Clem. Ireton H. Jessey Va. Powell H. Courtney T. Harrison J. Danvers John Canne John Rogers Subscribed the seventh of the sixth Moneth August 1657. LONDON Printed for Livewell Chapman and are to be sold at the Crown in Popes-head-alley 1657.