defence will be serviceable but wee expect our greatest help and advantage as from our daily prayers so more especially from those solemn monthly dayes of humiliation that are afforded and appointed us William the Conquerour when he was Duke of Normandy according to the superstition of those times builded many Abbies Monasteries and Nunneries and told his friends he was at this cost to strengthen his Kingdome esteeming them as strong fortifications wherein he provided many to fight against the devill the world and the flesh this he said according to his light I can more truly speak from God that in every congregation where godly Ministers and godly people shall according to publick direction ly in the dust fasting and mourning and praying before the Lord there are strong holds set up for the safety of the Kingdome Secondly how sadly doth this speak against many thousands of professed Christians some cannot pray some will not pray sure I am many doe not pray who in all this long time of Germanies afflictions have never separated themselves to afford one dayes prayer for the help of their brethren and in all our owne exigents and darknesses have never stood upon the walls to help either England Scotland Ireland King or Parliament these are a miserable generation And this their not praying for the Church is a sad token against them that when the Church of Christ shall sing for joy of heart themselves shall cry for sorrow of heart and howle for vexation of spirit What remaineth then but that all you who make mention of the Lord and bear his Name who have received this mercy that you may have accesse to the throne of grace be quickned up for the time to come to stand upon the walls to give God no rest night nor day to let Ierusalem come into your mind constantly to do that which Master Bradford made the subscription of his letters pray pray pray God hath done great things for us but many great things are yet to bee done much rubbish to be removed many obstructions to bee cleared many enimies to be overthrown Ireland is to be relieved Religion to bee established Prayer may doe all this wee may overmatch all our enimies by prayer discover all their plots by prayer Let us not bee traitors against the Church and State in slighting or forbearing the use of that which may work all our works for us this is to betray the forts of the Kingdome But remember when I exhort you to pray I mean First it must be prayer indeed many can read prayers say prayers sing prayers many can conceive or utter prayers who yet cannot pray Prayer is a pouring out of the soul to God And secondly this spirit poured out in prayer must bee a pure spirit If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear my prayer And thirdly this prayer must bee a prayer of faith Pray in faith and waver not And in a prayer of faith three things must meet First That the things begg'd bee according to the will of God Secondly That they bee begg'd in the name of Christ Thirdly that we rely upon the faithfulnesse of God for the performance of them This is to pray in faith Fourthly Our prayers must bee fervent humble constant and when we have prayed wee must remember that though prayer be the great means yet prayer is not all the means Prayer must quicken us up to the use of other means and sanctifie us in the use of other means other means are fruitlesse without prayer and prayer not seconded with the use of oâ—her means where they may be had prevailes not These things you cannot bee ignorant of and therefore I only point at them especially in these streights of time One thing more I must needs advise about before I passe from this great help of prayer And that is in what esteem praying spirits should bee had amongst all wise men I know the world slights and scornes them but in truth they are the very Chariots and Horsemen of Israel Ten praying men might have saved Sodom and the Cities round about Solomon saith There was a little City and few men it and a poore wise man by his wisdome delivered this City from the siege of a great King Yet no man remembred that same poore man Truly thus it is with poore praying Christians they deliver the Iland and yet no man regards them David knew how to prize such spirits who though hee were a King thought them fit to bee his companions who cal'd upon the name of God Paul knew how to prize them who begged for prayers as a prisoner for a ransome Now I beseech you brethren for the Lord Iesus Christs sake that you pray for me Yea Ioash though an Idolater when the praying Prophet Elisha lay a dying wept and cryed as sensible of loosing the chiefe support of his Kingdome O my father my father the Chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof Nay which is yet more a heathen Emperour Marcus Aurelius finding by experience the power of the prayers of Christians gave all the world notice of it staid the persecution against the Christians and call'd that band of Christians Legio fulminatrix the thundring band Let us therefore not fall short of heathens let us not undervalue or slight them who carry the Keyes of heaven at their girdle Verily Right honourable and beloved if you knew what blessings they are in the midst of the land you would take pleasure in them you would seek for praying friends praying servants praying tenants you would desire to have a stock goe in every one of their vessels You would say to them all as they to their companions going up to the house of God To pray before the Lord and to seek the Lord of hostes I will go also Yea you would lay hold upon the skirt of these men saying we will goe with you for we have heard that God is with you This is the greatest help which we can give to the Church of Christ This wee doe immediately to God for the Church There are some things also which we must doe for the Church from God The particulars are innumerable but in regard the time is wholly spent I shall give you the summe of all in one short conclusion And indeed a little time may make it cleare to your understandings although the practise of it require the study of your whole lives The conclusion is this Whatsoever abilities any have received in any kind they are given to them to this very end to be serviceable and usefull to the Church of Christ with them All the manifestations of the spirit in gifts and graces are chiefly given for this end to profit the Church with all the livelyhood of our naturall faculties of our actions of our wordly wealth of office or authority are given us not for our own carnall ends no nor primarily for our own
MEROZ Cursed OR A SERMON PREACHED To the Honourable House OF COMMONS At their late Solemn FAST Febr. 23. 1641 By STEPHEN MARSHALL B. D. Minister of Finchingfitld in Essex Published by order of that House PSALM 122. Vers. 6 9. Pray for the peace of Ierusalem they shall prosper that love thee Because of the House of the Lord our God I will seek thy good LONDON Printed by R. BADGER for Samuel Gellibrand at the Brasen Serpent in St. Pauls Church yard 1641. TO THE Honourable HOUSE of COMMONS Now ASSEMBLED in PARLIAMENT IT is fit my obedience should last as long as your commands for so I have alwayes interpreted your Requests and desires to be As I never had the confidence to present you with any thing properly mine so neither will I bee guilty of that Injustice as to deny you any thing so truly your own as is this fruit of my poore yet willing endeavours It is yours truly but most principally the Churches whose both you and I and all that you can doe or I speak are If it may be serviceable to you and you by it made more serviceable to the Church and cause of God I have my option But I am resolved not to make that use of my experience of your patience in hearing the Sermon as to try it further with the length of a Dedication Only I thinke it my dutie to second my proposition with my prayers That God would vouchsafe a blessing to your endeavours for his Church and to you for your endeavours These shall be the constant and earnest desires of Your Servant Stephen Marshall A SERMON PREACHED At the late FAST BEFORE The COMMONS HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT IUDGES V. XXIII Curse ye Meroz said the Angell of the Lord curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof because they came not to the helpe of the Lord to the help of the Lord against the mighty RIght Honourable and beloved it hath been a custome almost amongst all Nations after any notable Victory to have their {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} their Triumphant Songs wherein the illustrious acts of their owne worthy Leaders and the shame and confusion of their enemies were celebrated preserved and so delivered over to posterity The Romans had their Salii Priests who after any victory went dancing through the City singing their Hymes and Paeans to Mars and the rest of the favourable Gods And the Grecians sometimes in Verses sometimes by Sculpture used to set forth their famous Battels and Victories yet alwayes attributing the highest glory of all to their Gods whoâ— they supposed to bee present with them Protectors over them and fighters for them This course I thinke the Devill learned from the Lord Jehovah's dealing with his owne people who alwayes directeth them thus to celebrate his noble acts and their great deliverances Thus Moses and Aaron sang unto the Lord when he triumphed gloriously over Pharaoh and all his Host making them sinke like a stone to the bottome of the Red Sea Thus the women in their song and dance celebrated their victory over the Philistims And this whole Chapter is nothing but a Triumphant song setting forth in an elegant and lofty verse the great Victory which Barak and Deborah and a small army with them had gotten the Lord marching before them against King Jabin and his Generall Sisera who for twenty yeares had mightily oppressed the children of Israel In which song First all prayse and glory is given to Jehovah the Lord of hoasts the Prince who lead them by whose strength alone the victory was obtained Prayse yee the Lord for the avenging of Israel I will sing unto the Lord Lord when thou wentest out of Seir c. Then the Song descends to the due praises of their generall Barak and his assistant Deborah yea the severall Regiments and Companies both of Horse and Foot doe receive the praise and reward of their courage and valour And not only so but the Song proceeds to Stigmatize and brand with reproach and marke out for punishment all such companies as had played either the Traitours or the Cowards or were otherwise wanting to their duty in this great expedition Reuben had other Sheepe to turne hee tarried amongst his Sheepfolds to heare the bleating of his flocke Gilead durst not crosse the Water Dan cowardly withdrew into his Ships Ashur durst not come from his owne coasts God takes notice and remembers them all and lets them know he had great thoughts of heart about it and in time would reckon with them for it But above all his wrath was most incensed against Meroz a people of whom wee finde no mention in the whole Booke of God nor I thinke in any other Story but onely in this place upon this unhappy occasion you can know no more of them than what this place tels you and these few reliques of them remaine as the lake of Sodome as a monument of their sin or as a Mast of a Ship swallowed up in the quicksand to warne passengers to take heed of that dangerous place or as Lots Wife turned into a Pillar of Salt to season others This their short Chronicle I may call their Grave-stone which seemes to hold out such an inscription as they say Sennacharibs Tomb had Looke upon me and learne to be godly So theirs Looke upon mee and learne your owne duty Looke upon me and take heed of disserting the cause and Church of God when they stand in neede of you A Text and Theme exceeding seasonable Seasonable to the times wherein we live when abundance of mighty enemies rise up against the Lord and against his Church Seasonable to the temper of most people who generally minde their owne things and not the things of Christ Seasonable to the occasion of this dayes meeting which is purposely for the helpe of the Lord and his cause and people now distressed in Ireland But to me it seemes most of all seasonable for this present honourable Assembly who all should be as the Lord their Horses as his Horses their Chariots as his Chariots they being all called to bee Leaders and Captaines of the Lords Host. The Lord make it but as profitable as I am sure it is seasonable and I doubt not but we shall be exceeding gainers by it In this Text which I may call the doome of Meroz there are these two things First the Author of the doome or sentence the Angell of the Lord Curse yee Meroz said the Angell of the Lord Secondly the Sentence given against them Curse ye Meroz c. Wherein likewise consider these two things First What their fault was Secondly What their punishment was Their Fault yee have in these words They came not out to the helpe of the Lord to the helpe of the Lord against the mighty Their Punishment was a curse and a bitter one Curse ye Meroz Curse yee bitterly or as the word signifies in cursing curse the
themselves willingly among the people Hallelujah Praise the Lord They are not so much as named without an Euge. The Princes of Issachar are blessed for being with Barak Zebulun and Nepthali were a people that jeoparded their lives to the death in the high places of the field These are blessed also Blessed above women was Iael the wife of Heber the Kenite What made Jael such a blessed woman Even this she put her hand to the naile and her right hand to the workmans hammer and with the hammer she smote Sisera she smote off his head when she had pierced and smitten through his temples On the other side see the displeasure that there is against the Tribes who came not out to helpe in this expedition Ruben had businesse of his own his flocks were to be attended Gilead could plead that the River Jordan divided him from Barak and his company Asher had his own breaches to make up and the Sea coasts to looke to A man might think these were faire excuses But God had great thoughts of heart against them all And wo to him or them against whom God hath great thoughts The whole Chapter runs in this straine they are cryed up they are honoured and blessed not only the heart of Gods people but the soule of God himselfe as I may say tooke pleasure in them who appeared on the Churches side his displeasure indignation wrath and curse did rise against all who came not to the helpe This is most plaine in many other Scriptures I shall cull out but three among three hundred Jer. 48. 10. That whole Chapter containes the doome of Moab Gods curse was now to be executed upon Moab and you may read of Moab that the Lord once sent to him when his people were in distresse Let my out-casts divell with thee Moab be thou a shelter to them in the time of a storme But Moab was too proud to listen to Gods counsell Moab was alwaies an ill enemy to Israel Now God comes to reckon with him for it Now the spoyler shall come upon all his Cities And to them who were to execute this vengeance of God against them marke what a charge is given in the tenth verse Cursed is he that doth the worke of the Lord negligently or fraudulently or deceitfully as the word signifies Now what was the worke which was to be done the next words will tell you Cursed is every one that withholds his hand from shedding of bloud the strangest reason of a curse that ever was read of if ever a man might have pleaded with Peter when the voice said unto him Arise Peter kill and eate not so Lord I have not beene accustomed to this here were roome for such a plea when his worke was to go and embrew his hands in the bloud of men to spill and powre out the bloud of women and children like water in every street But he is a cursed man that withholds his hand from this or that shall do it fraudulently that is if he do it as Saul did against the Amalekites kill some and save some if he go not through with the work he is a cursed man when this is to be done upon Moab the enemy of Gods-Church So that whatsoever imployment men are put to they are cursed men that take not part with God in his worke Another place you shall find in Psal. 137. v. 8 9. The daughter of Babylon was there to be destroyed observe now the epithete which God gives to the executioners of his wrath against Babylon Blessed is the man that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us Blessed is the man that makes Babylon drinke the same cup which Babylon had made Gods people to drinke Now he that reades the booke of the Lamentations may finde how Babylon had used the Church of God they had broken their bones as a Lion breakes the bones of a Lamb brought their necks under persecution made their skin blacke like an oven hang'd up their Princes by the hand and which is most of all cruell had dashed their children against the stones Now saith the Spirit of God Blessed is the man that thus rewards Babylon yea blessed is the man that takes their little ones and dashes them against the stones What Souldiers heart would not start at this not only when he is in hot bloud to cut downe armed enemies in the field but afterward deliberately to come into a subdued City and take the little ones upon the speares point to take them by the heeles and beat out their braines against the walles what inhumanity and barbarousnesse would this be thought Yet if this worke be to revenge Gods Church against Babylon he is a blessed man that takes and dashes the little ones against the stones But there is one Text of Scripture if no other were to be found in the whole booke of God which is a sufficient proofe that all are blessed or cursed according as they doe or doe not helpe the Church of God in their need and that you shall finde Matth. 25. 33. c. The summe whereof in a few words is this At the latter end of that Chapter is a description of the day of judgement and of the manner of Christs proceeding at that day First that when Jesus Christ shall come in the glory of his Father he will divide all the godly to the right hand and all the wicked to the left hand as the Shepheard divides the Sheep from the Goates Secondly he pronounces all on his right hand blessed all upon the left hand cursed Come yee blessed goe ye cursed Here are all the blessed and there are all the cursed Marke now what is assigned as the only reason and evidence why the one sort are blessed and the other cursed It is most plaine in the Scripture that at that day the Lord will call people to an account for all they have done in their whole course whether good or evill but in this place Christ gathers all that shall be opened and come to receive blessing or cursing reward or punishment to this one head according as they did or did not helpe and succour his Church and people in their time of need To the one side Come yee blessed receive the Kingdome prepared for you for you visited my Church when it was sicke you gave meale to my Church when it was hungry you gave my people drinke when they were thirsty you tooke them in when they were strangers you cloathed them when they were naked you came to them when they were in prison Inasmuch as you have done it unto these even unto one of the least of these my brethren you have done it unto me On the other side Go ye cursed Why are they cursed I was hungry and ye gave me no meat I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink I was a stranger and ye took me not in naked and you cloathed me not sick and in prison
Dragons muster-book openly bidding defiance against the Church of Christ in every good cause who walke Antipodes against the cause of God like Antiochus making war against the Saints like the little horne in Daniel wearing out the Saints of the most high in all places where they can prevail how many others like the Kings and Princes in the 2. Psal. Set themselves and take counsell against the Lord and against his Annointed digging as deep as hell for counsell to do all the mischiefe they can to the servants of the Lord Iesus Christ How many others with Balaam doe what in them lies to curse them for reward who for very malice raile upon and revile the children of the most High How many others with Edom look upon the affliction of Israel rejoycing over them in the day of their destruction speaking proudly in the day of their distresse crying out against Ierusalem down with it downe with it even to the ground How many others with Amalâ—k smite the hindmost of Gods Church all who are weake and feeble when they are faint and wearie adding sorrowes and increasing the burthen of the afflicted How many with Sanballat and Tobiah are grieved when any are found to doe good in Israel endeavouring to hinder the building of Sion and to further the repairing of the walls of Babylon God knowes there are too many such I hope not many such present here this day before the Lord But concerning these if there should be any such here by what name or title shall I call them The Gyants who make war against heaven {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} fighters against God I know no appellation fitter for them But whatsoever they delight to be called I most earnestly beseech them in their most secret thoughts to answer these few questions By what injurie hath the Lord provoked thee thus against him what iniquitie hast thou found in him what hurt hath Christ done to thee what evils are his righteous servants guilty of against thee Or if thou canst give no reason of this but only non amo te nec possum dicere quare I know no reason but my heart stands against them What honour or reward dost thou expect for this desperate service What hope hast thou of speeding Canst thou make thy forces strong enough to carry the day O friend though thou beest proud and daring yet be not mad no weapon will prosper which is formed against them God hath sworne it against all the people who fight against Jerusalem that their flesh shall consume whilest they stand upon their feet their eyes shall rot in their holes their tongue shall consume away in their mouth O set not Briars and Thornes to fight against devouring fire Let the potsheards strive with the Potsheards of the Earth but let not a poor worm fight against his maker Thou art too weake to strive with God Kicke not against these prickes abstaine abstaine from those men of whom the Lord hath said he that touches them touches the apple of mine eye Secondly There are others not open enemies professing to take part against the Church who stand as neuters who stand a loofe off shewing themselves neither open enemies nor true friends like the Samaritans who feared the Lord and served their Idols of whom also Josephus saith that when the Jewes were in prosperity the Samaritans were their friends but were ever severed from them in their adversity But as the Lord said of them when they feared the Lord and served their Idols they feared not the Lord so he will one day say of these they love not the Lord They say such as stand neuters are ordinarily crushed which side soever wins but the Lord acknowledges no Neuters This text curses all them who come not out to helpe him as well as those who came to fight against him And our Saviour at the last day will as well denounce go ye cursed against them who gave them not bread when they were hungry as them who plucked their bread away from them And in this case it is a certaine rule for it is Christs rule he that is not with me is against me And of these Neuters there are two sorts First some stand Neuters out of policy because they will see which side shall prevaile that they may be sure to joyne with the winning side of these we have a notable example Judg. 8. when Gideon was pursuing Zeba and Zalmunnah the Kings of Midian he cals to the men of Succoth and the men of Penuel to help to victuall his Army Give I pray you loaves to them that follow me for they are faint But they would first see what would be the event of the war Are the heads of Zeba and Zalmunnah in thine hands that we should give bread unto thine Army As who should say if you gave gotten the day we are for you if not you must pardon us we will looke on a while longer and even so do many falsehearted friends deale with the Church of God turne Jewes when they have an honoured Mordecai and as ready to cut their throats when Haman prevailes against them They will be sure to be of the winning side that they may save their own stake but what Gideons answer was to the men of Succoth and Penuel when the Lord hath delivered Zeba and Zalmunnah into mine hand then then will I teare your flesh with briars and thornes of the wildernesse then will I beate down your Towers and slay the men of your City and accordingly did it such like doom and execution shall all politick Neuters receive from the hand of Christ 2 There is a second sort of Neuters who neither oppose the Church nor helpe it not out of policy but meere sluggishnesse and desire of ease or basenes of spirit loving only their worldly profits and sensuall pleasures nothing regarding what concernes religion or the Church like Gallio the Deputie of Achaia who when the Iewes one while beat Paul another while the Ruler of the Synagogue as the Text sayes cared for none of these things If it had beene a matter of right or equitie things belonging to the Roman lawes he was ready to appeare but if it be a matter of Religion it was out of his element he is indifferent whether the Beare bite the Dog or the Dog bite the Beare it is all one to him Abundance of these are to be found every where of whom we may say as Salomon in another case The heart knowes his owne bitternesse c. They neither know the Churches bitternesse nor are acquainted with the joy of it Such I thinke were the men of Iabesh Gilead who when all the Tribes of Israel had bound themselves by oath to prosecute that bloody murder of the Levites Concubine against the Benjamites and never to returne untill they had avenged it they let both sides alone they had businesse enough of
salvation but that with them all wee should be as good Stewards of the manifold graces of God So that our hands if skilfull to write should be employed as Secretaries of the Church our feet as Messengers of the Church our tongues as Advocates for the Church our Wisdome and learning as Counsellors for the Church our wealth as Stewards or Almoners for the Church Whatever any man hath the Lord would have his Church to be the Common-storehouse into which all should bee brought the body to which all should be serviceable just as it was when the Tabernacle was to be built Not only Bezaleel and Aholiab men skilfull in all manner of work were to bestow their labours upon it but all with whom any thing was to be found whether silver or brasse or fine linnen or Goats haire or Badgers skins or Rams skins all with a willing heart were to bring it in yea the very women that could spinne either linnen or woollen or haire were all to be employed to further the work of the Tabernacle This needs no proofe every mans spirit carries him to do all this for whatsoever is his summum bonum his chiefest happinesse such as make Mammon their God or their belly do readily contribute all they have or can doe to the service of them I shall shut up all with a briefe application First for reproofe Secondly for duty How sadly doth this speak concerning them whose serviceablenesse to the Church consists only in empty and barren wishes the same which they can and doe afford to any creature which they see to be in distresse they love the Church they pity the miseries of the Church they are sorry for Germany when they think on it and that is but seldome They grieve for Ireland but require either their hands to underwrite their legs to walk their purses to contribute their authority to command or countenance c. they can spare none of all these They have a bottomlesse gulfe called selfe which swallowes all they are have or can doe and yet is never satisfied Aske them if they have a heart to do nothing for the Church they answer readily they pray for it with all their heart and that is all they can doe But let all such false-hearted Christians know that the Lord needs none of their help and cares as little for their dry barren prayers as the poore beggar did for the Bishops blessing who begging for a peny but denyed that and put off with the offer of a benediction told him that hee perceived his peny was better than his blessing otherwise he had denyed him that also In the meane time think how thou wilt appeare in the day of thine account when the not having much but the improving of what we had to our masters advantage will bring the Euge bone serve when others shall come in and say Lord thy pound hath gained five pounds when as Gregory sayes Peter shall come in with his gaine of Iudea Andrew of Africa Thomas of India Paul and the rest of many Nations Ministers bring in their sheaves of soules private Christians their gleanings and bundles And thou appeare empty thy talent buried or embezelled thy age spent thy candle burnt out nothing done by thee for the Church when it shall appeare that thou hast had gold and silver to feather thy own nest power and authority to terrifie thy neighbours like a great Tree crushing or overdropping all that stand neare thee and hast had this worlds goods as the Leviathan the Sea onely to take thy pleasure and satisfie thy lusts in them Woe unto thee if thy Master finde thee thus doing This gaine of thy Talents will be the losse of thy own soule Secondly for exhortation to all especially to you Right honourable and beloved What words shall I use How shall I make up a strength to prevail with you to give up your selves and all you have so wholly to the Lord and to his Church that all your other outward occasions may not so much as dare to expect any thing from you so long as the Church hath need of it that your pleasures and superfâ—uities nay your profits sometimes necessities may never offer to come in competition with the Church of God for any thing which you call yours O that you could hear the Lord speaking to you in the same language as once he spake to Cyrus For Jacob my servants sake and Israel mine elect I have even called thee by the name I confesse that instead of exhorting we have just cause to blesse God for you when we consider how you who heretofore have lived at ease and in pleasure enjoying the delights of the sons of men have now changed your pleasures for paines your delights for dangers your profits and gains for expences your houses for lodgings and still continue to deny your selves in all these things and goe on in your unwearied labours for the Church and cause of God This is great matter of praise to God and honour to your selves Generous plants and odoriferous spices they say grow onely in hot regions such fruits as yours are not brought forth by every plant such plants as you grow not on every ground But go ye on ye Nobles and Worthies forget what is behind God and his people will not forget it look and presse to the work which yet remains Get the resolution of Zisca that brave Bohemian Captain who not onely was willing to fight while he lived but be queathed his skin when he died to bee made a drum head for the service of the warre Hold out to the end Cloath ye with zeale as with a cloak put on righteousnesse as your ornament Bee good shepherds still to rescue and feed the flock committed to you Be so many Saviours upon mount Sion All this shall be done for the best Master all this seed will be sown in the most fruitfull ground the bosome of the Church and to quicken you the more remember how much of the golden time which is gone you have wasted with Domitian in catching of flyes how much of your estate hath bin spent needlesly in pictures feastings buildings sportings if not worse in riot and disorder how much of your strength hath been bestowed in the service of this world and the God of it and now when the gray haires are scattered upon many of you and God might justly cast you aside as broken vessels the Lord should choose you and accept you in the most honourable service that the sons of men are capable of nay that service which he employed his owne Son in How readily and cheerfully ought you to consecrate your selvs and service to this work you should come from your habitations and countries as the Levite from the place where he so journed with all the desires of your minds to serve the Lord your God And to you the rest beside your Prayers the exigence of