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The Parliament of instrvctjons; for, the relief of afflicted, persecuted, and plundered Christians. / Written by H.T. one of the Parliaments soldiers, who hath since lost his life in the service.
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when he arose he arose early Lazarus that lay four dayes began to savour If we lie long in our sins we shall wax unsavoury too We see by experience that the longer we defere the curing of wounds the harder is their rocovery at the last Jer. 8. 11. 1 Kin. 17. 13 17. We should cast away all confidence in our selves in our own strength Peter trusted â—o himself and fel In his own might shall no man boast 1 Sam. 2. Let us be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Ephes. 6. 10. Mat. 26. 33. 1 Sam. 2. 9. Deu. 3. 39. 18. We should redeem the time because the daies are evill especially from idle talking and speaking of those things which do not concern us for that speaking may indanger us The Prudent should keep silence in an evill time Amo. 5. The Advarsary may intrap us in our words Therfore let us take heed before whom and what we speak 19. Let us labour to have true faith in God this weapon where ever God hath put it in any hand hath done glorious things for the Church of God if thou canst but get this weapon into thy hand heart it will cause thee to live comfortably in the worst times thou canst meet withall and make thee say with the Prophet Hab. 3. Though the figtree should not blossome nor no fruit bee left in the Vine though the Labour of the Olive should faile and the Fields not yeeld their increase yet will I rejoce in the Lord and joy in the God of my Salvation Heb. 11. 11 c. Mat. 21. 21. 20. Let us bee often conversant with God we should enter into Chambers shut the door upon us and hide our selves till this jndignation be passed over Isa. 26. 20. Let the stream of our thoughts be for Heaven Let us get under our Fathers wings and say to him Thou art my hinding place Psal. 32. We must run to God not fly from him if we will be safe in the evill day Oh happy and comfortable shelter that alone can defend us from the scorching heat of persecution Pro. 27. 12. Psal. 32. 7. Act. 8. 21 22. 21. We should often exercise workes of Mercy charity towards our poor Brethren visite the sick releeve the wounded and distressed servants of Christ Give a portion to seven and to eight for thou knowest not what evill the Lord will bring on the earth Eccles. 11. 2. Mat. 25. 45. 1 John 3. 18. and 24. 22. Meditate Terrour conceive the worst before hand To be forewarned is to be forearmed get hope get submission get patience Let us prepare and set our selves in a readinesse Thinke of the Judgement comming upon us All the faithfull Ministers of God admonish us The sword is now amongst us and God is now riding upon his Red Horse through England to chastise us for our former sins Meditate as if the enemie had overcome our Armies and that a famine and siege should insue The things that I feared saith Iob are come upon me 1 Pet. 4. 12. 23. Let us take heed of these things now that may make our condition uncomfortable then There are three things that will make that condition very uncomfortabe Pride wanton abuse of your creature Comforts and unwillingnesse to lay them out in the cause of God If you have house Lands estates friends or good clothes and be now proud of them when they are taken from you your hearts will smite you and say Ah this was because I was so proud thereof and lifted up my self above my Brethren and therefore I am now made even with them as poor as they Esay 3. from the 16. to the 25. Mâ—â— 10. 37. Luk. 14. 26. 1 Cor. 7. 30. If you do wantonly abuse the creature in Drunkennesse Chambering Wantonnenesse c. When â—hey are taken away your heart will upbraid you and â—ay Ah This you may thank your wantonnesse for â—ou used these creatures so basely that they groaned â—nder your hand and so now they be got from you â—f you be not willing to lay them out in any good cause your heart will reproach you in the evill day Ah it is even just with God to take all from me I would not lay out my money and estate for his â—ruth his Ordinance his cause and now he hath â—iven me and all into the hands of spoilers 24. In the last place I shall conclude with some â—sefull directions unto those that have or shall fall inâ—o the hands of the enemie and thereby suffer the â—osse of their Estates or goods If it shall please the Lord to bring any into that condition Let them first humble themselves and accept of the punishment of their iniquitie and say The Lord is righteous in all that is come upon them So did Daniel Dan. 9. 7. O Lord righteousnesse belongeth unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day 1 Pet. 5. 6. Isa. 2. 11. Deut. 8. 16. Ier. 13. 18 2 Be sure to blesse and praise the Lord for that little you have left and if nothing be left praise God for others that are free from your condition If a man be in prosperitie and grieve for others in adversitie it is the onely way to keep him in prosperitie if a man be in adversitie and can praise God for others and rejoyce in their prosperitie it is the onely way to have his own adversitie changed into prosperitie 3 Be carefull to keep Gods promise in your full view The promise is very full and clear what condition is there enriched with more promises Are you afraid when you are driven out of your Houses that you shall faint and fall in the streets that you shall die in the Fields or some Ditch Remember that promise where God hath said Matth. 19. 29. Those that forsake house and land shall receive an hundred fold Then remember the 100 fold promise But would you return to your own house and are you afraid you shall not do so Then remember that promise Micah 4. 6. 7. In that day saith the Lord will I assemble her that halteth and gather her that is driven out and her that I have afflicted In the interim are you afraid of misery povertie beggerie Then remember that promise which hath 5 seales upon it I will never leave you nor forsake you Where in the Originall there are 5 negatives as if he should say thus I will never never never never never leave you or forsake you Heb. 1. 3. 5. Jos. 1. 5. Luther insists much upon that promise of our Saviour Christ unto his Disciples Matth. 10. 33. You shall not have gone over all the Cities of Judea untill the Sonne of man shall come The sonne of man was already come saith Luther wheâ— he did speak these words and therefore the promise belongs not onely to the Disciples but to all the Disciples of Jesus Christ that shall be the promise speaking thus much that though they be persecuted and driven from one place to another yet there shall be alwayes some place open to receive them When persecution is in one place another shall be free from it and there shall be alwayes some place free untill the Sonne of Man shall come Stock and store your selves with many such promises that when this misery spoken of shall come keep them in your full view Think on all these things I say for the present and in the future if such a condition fall And the Lord give us understanding in all things FINIS Published according to Order
THE PARLIAMENT OF JNSTRVCTJONS FOR The relief of afflicted persecuted and plundered Christians Written by H. T. one of the Parliaments Soldiers who hath since lost his life in the service PSAL. 55. 22. Cast thy Burthen upon the Lord and he shall nourish thee he will not suffer the Righteous to fall for ever LONDON Printed by JANE COE 1645. The Parliament of Instructions for the relief of afflicted persecuted and plundered Christians THe Ship of this Kingdome being now tossed with the Waves and Tempests of a Civill and unnaturall Warre the sharpest and sorest of all Gods Arrowes It is no time for any man like Ionas to lie snorting in the bottome of the Ship but we must all indeavour to use some means for to stop the current of this inundation and overflowing of Gods judgements upon us and as by our many great and crying sins we have provoked God to wrath and indignation against us so by our humiliation prayer and reformation we ought to seek to appease his offended Majestie Which that every perticular man may the better put in execution I have collected these considerations and Meditations following out of the word of God which may serve as directions unto all sorts of people how to behave and dispose of themselves in the most sad and disconsolate times 1 Let a man examine himself whether he be in the estate of grace or not Let us try our faith and repentance if we will not try our selves we shall be tried it is therefore our duty to do it before hand Let us look that we lay a good foundation and build upon the sure and immoveable rock Christ Jesus and then let the flouds of affliction beate Lam. 3 40. Let the Stormes and Tempests of persecution blow never so yet we shall stand firm and sure Mariners you know it s enough for them almost that they know their ships good however they be tossed they know the nature of the Seas I am well imbarqued why so may you in the middest of all your tossings who are right with him say I am in a good vessell I am in Christ here is my Ark let the world rage let what will come I am in Christ I am in a very blessed Ark Math. 3. 26 27 28. Mar. 5. 37. Luk. 8. 28. Rom. 13. 14. 2 We should wean our mindes from the love of the world A thing hanged on a pin is easily heaved off but the things that are glewed or cemented together are hardly surrendred or divided David loved Absalom too much which made him so much lament for the losse of him Excessive love to the world makes the crosse the harder to be indured 2 Sam 18. 33. 3 We should be twice as much exercised in religious duties as in other more peaceable times When Iudas was plotting Christ went to the passeover when Almighty God comes to visit let him finde us well imployed let us be moved with reverence and diligence to use means to save our selves and our families all that belong unto us Mat. 26. 14. Lu. 22. 4. 4 We should labor to keep a good conscience that when we have troubles without we may have peace within For saith Salomon a good conscience is a continuall Feast Acts 24. 16. 1 Cor. 1 3. Gal. 1. 3. 5 We should inure our selves to some hardnesse a delicate person will hardly suffer We should deny our selves something in meat something in apparell Let us abase our selves lest God abase us God threatens a severe curse by the mouth of his Prophet unto those that humble not themselves in times of common calamitie Joel 2. 1. 12. Zeph. 1. 12. 6 Pray and sue and intreat evermore for the favour of God it wil be intolerable to apprehend the wrath of God and the wrath of man both at once God hath promised that if we cal upon him in the time of trouble he wil hear Psa. 50. 15. Jam. 5 13. Jer. 29. 12. 7 Let us make much of the promises they being up wil be as strong waters to keep us from fainting Amongst other precious promises of God in Scripture meditate upon these Texts following Psa. 125. 1 2. They which trust in the Lord shal be as M. Sion which cannot be moved but abideth for ever As the mountains are round about Jerusalem so the Lord is about his people from henceforth even for ever 1 Sam â— 9. The Lord will keep the feet of his Saints Prov. 1. 33. Who so hearkneth unto me shall dwell safely and shall be quiet for fear of evill Psal. 91. 4. He will cover thee under his wings and thou shalt be sure under his feathers his Truth shall be thy sword and buckler Psal. 121. 3 4 5. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved he that keepeth thee will not slumber Behold he that keepeth Israel will neither slumber nor sleep The Lord is thy Keeper the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand Seeing the Lord is our Keeper we need not fear the greatest dangers in the most dangerous times See also Job 11. 18 19. Matth. 10. 39. Chap. 19. 24. Psal. 125. 3. 1 Sam. 2. 20. Deut. 28. 7. Deut. 30. 7. Prov. 21. 18. 8 Get into thy heart sound and experimentall knowledge of the truth as also the love of it It is the truth we are likely to suffer for we cannot suffer for that we do not know much lesse for that we do not love Joh. 17. 3. Tit. 1. 16. Joh. 18. 37. 9 We should labour to incourage and comfort one another in these evill times God hath a Book of remembrance of them that speak often one to another Mal. 3. When men do ask what news we should question with them what shall we do to escape Gods judgments shall we pray and humble our selves shall we fast shall we become new men and binde our selves to God with an everlasting covenant Many good friends oftentimes in the world shake hands at parting therefore when we keep our solemn Assemblies which should be now more often then ordinary we should keep them with the more reverence and devotion for we know not whether we shall make them any more Mal. 3. 17. Luk. 21. 38. Joel 1. 14. Pr. 27. 12. Isa. 45. 20. Ezr. 6. 23. Neh. 8. 30. 1 Pe. 5. 6. When we make our humble repentance unto God we had need do it sincerely indeed it may be our last It is said of certain Hawkes in colder Countries that they are most earnest and eager to take their prey when the day light there is of least continuance Let us not care so much what shall be after us in the World but let us care what will become of us when we are departed in the World to come Hear good counsell saith Austin do that before death which may do thee good when thou art dead When the Church in Hesters time was sold to be destroyed by wicked counsell as we now are Hester and Mordecai and all the Jews they fasted and