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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95662	Hiervsalem: or A vision of peace. In a sermon preached at Margarets in Westminster, before the honourable House of Commons at their monethly fast, Aug. 28. 1644. By Christopher Tesdale, Pastor at Husborn Tarrant, in the county of Southampton, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Tesdale, Christopher, b. 1591 or 2.	1644 (1644)	Wing T792; Thomason E7_19; ESTC R2601	22,081	35

take my name into thy mouth And to such sinners as hate to bee reformed I may say as Christ to the unclean spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hold thy peace keep thy breath to coole thy torment yet sinners repenting come Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord. Thou canst not pray yet thou eatest to get thee a stomach so pray that thou mayest pray the word and prayer are for beginnings and entrance in grace and though thou canst not pray yet run to Christ Hee can teach thee Lord teach us to pray But now the house of David and the Inhabitants of Hierusalem the true Converts in Israel the deare Saints and fervants of God whose faithfull fervent prayer availeth much these are they must run of this errand these must pray for the Peace of Hierusalem So Moses and Aaron must pray Pharaoh could not Exod. 8. 8. The man of God must pray Jeroboam could not 1 King 13. 6. Peter and John must pray Simon Magus could not Act. 8. 24. The righteous must pray the workers of iniquity cannot Psal 14. 4. they call not upon God You then that are the deare favourites of Heaven eloquent Oratours at the Throne of grace royall Priests of the most high God to come with humble boldnesse into his presence to plead continually and perswade with him and put incense before him who as Princes prevaile with God with gratefull violence holding the everlasting armes and overcomming him who is Omnipotent whose powerfull Prayers can work Miracles open and shut heaven obtaine any blessing remove any judgement whose zeale is able to call down fire from heaven to consume Captaines and their Companies and muster up whole legions of destroying Angels against the face of your enemies and whose faith can fill the Mountaines and Vallies with Horses of fire and Chariots of fire for defence and safety of you Israels you that are the Lords remembrancers give him no rest till hee make Hierusalem a praise in the Earth speak you in the eares of God intreat now the face of the Lord for us lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left Inforce your faithfull fervent Prayers with strong cries and teares at the Mercy seat and say Spare thy people O Lord and give not thy heritage to reproach that the Heathen should rule over them Wee are very right then wee are seeking God in his own way the price of Peace is in our hands and the purchase is before us Fasting is a good handmaid to devotion to pluck off our shooes before wee enter into Gods presence an usefull servant to keep the Asses at the foot of the Mount whilest Abraham goes up to sacrifice to cudgell away our lusts which otherwise as little puppies will nothing but leap about us wholesome discipline to beat down our body and bring it in subjection to humble and withdraw the soule from brutish and unreasonable motions and an excellent exercise to kindle in us a spirituall appetite and get us a good stomach to our prayers and when faith and fervency have given wings to our devotion this will imp those wings and make them fly home with more speed to the Throne of Grace And here worthy Fathers of your Country and the rest all beloved I beare you witnesse you have been with Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you have continued now many dayes with Christ in his temptation your prayers and teares have even now been your meat and drink and you have falne I hope heartily to it but I must invite you yet as to an aftermeale and desire you in Gods name to fall to it againe God will have not only the morning incense but the evening sacrifice that as the sinners repentance sets him at liberty for shewing mercy so the righteous mans prayer may tie up his hand from doing Justice Our Saviour often cals for audience from his most attentive hearers Matth. 13. And David in the greatest ardency of devoutest praises calls up and summons in the powers of his soule to doe over the same duty again and again and to do it yet better Praise the Lord O my soule Psal 103. 1 2. And surely God is about some great work hee intends some great blessing to the Land wee trust hee will blesse our eyes with the happy sight of the King in his beauty the Lord Jesus upon his glorious Throne with all his holy Ordinances about him in their purity and power that in his time the righteous may flourish and abundance of Peace so long as the Moon indureth The humbling our soules before our God abhorring our selves repenting in dust and ashes the saving a poore undone Church and State from utter ruine and destruction the dethroning Satan and Antichrist and setting up the Kingdome of Christ over the hearts and lives of the people of the land the laying the sure foundation of a blessed peace these are the great works of the day no wonder then that every faint desire and impotent indevour bee not competent to carry on such great motions as these No God will have us cry and cry mightily before hee will answer A cold suitor begges his own denyall God will have us Jacobs before wee shall bee Israels cito data vilescunt that which is soon gotten is as soon forgotten God will inhance the price of his good blessings by the deare purchase of them hee will have them not onely Samuels beg'd of God but Napthalies with great wrastlings obtained of him and even Christ himselfe though the Son yet learned obedience hee was heard indeed in that hee feared but it cost him strong cries and teares for it Except yee become as little children yee cannot enter into the Kingdome of Heaven As little children how is that little children if they would have any thing from their tender-hearted Mothers they have many deare intreaties and pretty insinuations to win them to it but if those will not doe they put finger in the eye and will bee sure to carry it by crying then the bowels yern and the Mother yeelds So it is in our suites to our heavenly Father Jacob wept and made supplication and had power over the Angel and prevailed Hosea 12. 4. Though God keep silence sometimes at our prayers hee will not hold his peace at our teares Psal 39. 12. And now to set on the point more closely upon the conscience by way of application my first addresse shall bee to you Honourable Worthies in a Use of Admonition It is a general rule for Prayer that the Petitions of it must bee practised as well as prayed Wee blesse God for your piety in commanding and your zeale in commending and incouraging these solemn daies of publick Humiliation we would not have you slacker in devotion but quicker in motion You must pray for peace and pursue too the things that belong to your peace Wee obtain great Victories but have no skill to use them Vincere scis Hannibal uti victoria nescis the