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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84600	The prisoners praises for their deliverance from the long imprisonment in Colchester. On a day of publique thanksgiving set apart for that purpose by the gentlemen of the committee of Essex, who for their fidelity in serving their country were surprised by the enemie at Chelmesford. In a sermon upon the sixth, seventh, & eighth, verses, of the CXLIX. Psalm. / preached at Rumford Septemb. 28. 1648. By Samuel Fairclough, pastor of the congregation at Ketton in Suffolk.	Fairclough, Richard, 1594-1677.	1650 (1650)	Wing F108; Thomason E589_4; ESTC R206306	32,215	40

THE PRISONERS PRAISES FOR THEIR Deliverance from their long Imprisonment in Colchester On a day of publique thanksgiving set apart for that purpose by the Gentlemen of the Committee of Essex who for their fidelity in serving their Country were surprised by the Enemie at Chelmesford In a Sermon upon the sixth seventh eighth verses of the CXLIX PSALM Preached at Rumford Septemb. 28. 1648. By SAMUEL FAIRCLOUGH Pastor of the Congregation at Ketton in Suffolk EZRA 9.8 9. We were bondmen yet our God hath not forsaken us in our Bondage but hath extended mercy to us in the sight of our enemies and hath given us a reviving PSALM 102.19 20. God looked down from the height of his Sanctuary from heaven did the Lord behold the earth To heare the groaning of the Prisoners and to lose them that were appointed to death That they might declare the name of the Lord in Sion and his Praise in Jerusalem LONDON Printed by John Macock for Lodowick Lloyd and Henry Cripps and are to be sold at their shop in Popes head Alley 1650. To the Right Worshipfull Sir William Massam Barronet Sir William Roe Knight Timothy Midleton John Eden Robert Smith Col. Thomas Ayloffe Arthur Barnardiston Samson Sheffeild Major Langley and Robert Crane Esquires The Gentlemen of the Committee of Essex that for their sidelitie in the Service of their Country were surprised by the Enemie at Chelmsford and imprisoned in Colchester GENTLEMEN I Conceive it will not be accounted any presumption to present that unto you which without injustice and breach of promise I cannot detain from you for howsoever when I heard you had designed me to this solemn Service of being Gods mouth unto you on the day of your publique Thanks-giving the consciousness of mine own weakness caused me to entertain the message with fear yet when you were pleased to give life and incouragement to this plain and unstudied Sermon First by your cheerfull and affectionate attention in hearing and then by your earnest importunitie That it might be made publick when you had heard it I must confess I was overcome contrary to mine own inclination to promise that if my reverend Brother who joyned with me in the work did send his Sermon to the Press before that mine in due time should follow after in performance whereof and in answer if not satisfaction to your desires therein I have tendred it unto you without addition or alteration of one materiall passage that was then delivered unto you I was intended to have added a Doctrinall Explanation of the remaining part of the Psalm with Scripture Resolutions to some Questions that may serve to be obvious therein before this mangled and imperfect peece had come to your hand but upon the advise of some godly judicious friends I have suspended the same conceiving it better to speak enough then to speak all accept it therefore as a testimonie of my complyance rather to your pleasures then mine own will who am not so great a stranger to mine own weakness as to think any thing of mine worthy of publike view wherein if mine obedience shal appear better then my sacrifice yet this is my comfort That the same candor of Spirit and ingenuitie that put me on the Service and gave so undeserved approbation unto the weak performance Knows also how to pardon my weakness and imperfection with favorable acceptations then which indulgence as when I reflect upon my self I dare desire no more So when I look upon you I can hope no less All that I would further say unto you you shall receive at large expressed in the Book which I will not anticipate by any earnest solicitation of your forward mindes to raise up themselves by the reading of it to wel-grounded determinations and constant resolution dayly to act and practise accordingly only this I must add That the Subject is so excellent that it is as worthy of your dayly remembrance and deepest consideration as my Pen is unworthy of so excellent a subject and withall That as your desire of publishing of it hath obliged me to present it to the world so hath it engaged you also to walk more answerable to the Intents and directions of the same before the world The Discourse is yours the Duty therein is yours and my uttermost Indeavours Service and Prayers are yours which shal speak that unto God for you which to avoyd the appearance of flattery I dare not speak unto you The most high God that hath highly honored you with his highest dispensations enable you al joyntly and severally with his grace and blessings to honour him again with your highest prayses and thanksgivings which shall be the constant Prayer Of the lowest and most unprofitable of all Christs Servants SAMUEL FAIRECLOUGM THE PRISONERS PRAISES FOR THEIR Deliverance from their long Imprisonment in COLCHESTER PSALM 149.6 7 8. Let the high Praises of God be in their mouthes and a two edged sword in their hands To execute vengeance upon the heathen and punishements upon the people To binde their Kings with Chains and their Nobles with Fetters of Iron SO great and thick is the cloud of Interpreters commenting upon this Psalm that instead of inlightening Introdu they darken the Text for the Occasion Analysis Argument and Scope is rendred by them so various and different as that it would swallow up the whole time alotted to both our exercises to rehearse their opinions to dispute their grounds and to make choyce of the best amongst them I shall purposely wave them all and only hint unto you that wherein they all concur viz. that this Psalm is one of them which they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gratulatory Circles where by the cast of your eye upon it you may perceive the Centre in the middle the fift verse to be the Glory of God the circumference on all sides the Praises of God beginning and ending with Hallelujah the several verses as so many radii or right lines Piscator Mollerus either ascending from the Centre of divine Goodness to the Circle of the Churches Praises holding forth the Beams of Gods Mercies to his People or else descending from the Circumference of the Churches Praises to the Centre of divine Love expressing the Peoples duties to their God Observe the words of the Text with their relation to the Hallelujah in the end of the Psalm and what I have said will be manifest to you they containing these two generals First The text analys'd A prescription of duty to be done Secondly A description of the duty how it is to be done 1. The prescription of the duty to be done is the high Praises of God 2. The description how it is to be done in all the following words to the end of the Psalm where we have First The Instruments Secondly The Execution The Instruments by which the high Praises of God and to be performed are two First The Mouth that they may be expressed verbally