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A93382	A sermon preached before the Honorable House of Commons, at their monethly fast, May 29. 1644. By Peter Smith Doctor of Divinitie, minister of Gods Word at Barkway in Hertfordshire, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Smith, Peter, d. 1652? or 3?; England and Wales. Parliament.	1644 (1644)	Wing S4142; Thomason E52_24; ESTC R9534	45,343	53

but even for them it had been well were he where he so much desired to be for then he might have been their intercessor with God and might have presented all their prayers unto him but he knew no such doctrine he hath taught us otherwise We read in Revel 8. 1. that there was silence in heaven for half an hour and what follows An Angel with a golden Censer stands at the Altar and there was given unto him much Incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all Saints upon the golden Altar which was before the Throne Vers 3. I will not stand to open this whole prophesie unto you let this suffice The Incense that is offered with our prayers is Christs intercession which smels so sweetly in the nostrils of God that he is content silence should be in heaven for a little time where yet his praises are sung eternally untill those prayers of the Saints so perfumed be fully heard Remember then Christ sitteth at the right hand of God making intercession for us Rom. 8. 34. let all our prayers then be made in his Name and presented unto the Father by his hand Vse 5 Fiftly there is an use of consolation arising from this consideration touching the Object of our supplications Have we a God to call upon and doth he call upon us that we should do so and do it freely frequently and the more often the more welcome O blessed and thrice blessed be his Name that hath so graciously invited us He hath not put us over to any such as the Papists fancie to be Favourites or Masters of Requests in heaven God the great King of heaven and earth is not like these his Vice-royes who must have their other u Satrapas quosdam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 appellatos Philost vit Apoll. Tyan lib. 1. cap. ●● cap. 19. Eares and Eyes to see and heare their subjects in their suits Whereas he by himself alone seeth and heareth all things his eies and eares going at once through all the world He is that friend spoken of Luk. 11. who when his children were in bed x P. Chrysol serm in Luc. 11. his Saints and Angels asleep rose himselfe to lend bread unto his friend How ready was he to heare that placed his bed so neer the door that no sooner his friend knocks but he heares him Not like that idol Baal of whom Elias said unto his Priests when with much clamour they cried after him Cry aloud for he is a God either he is talking or he is pursuing or he is in a iourney or peradventure he is sleeping and must be awaked 1 Kin. 18. 27. Nor like the heathens Iupiter who when the Grecians and the Troians were together by the ears was gone to visite his old friends y 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. Iliad 15. Oceanus and Tethys He is alwaies nigh at hand to all that cal upon him yea unto all that call upon him faithfully It is he that said Before they call I will answer and whilest they are yet speaking I will heare Isa 65. 24. And when they thus come unto him z 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 C. Rhod. Perioch Hom 9. he turns about to meet them graciously He is that father of the prodigall who when his sonne was at last returning to him with an humble confession and a poore petition Make me as one of thy hired seavants Luk. 15. 19. When he was yet a farre off saw him and had compassion and ranne and fell on his necke and kissed him And when he had made his confession stop 's him there and before he utters his request in stead of a servants livery cals for the best robe to put upon him and puts a ring upon his finger and much more he doth as if nothing had been too good for him who was dead and is now alive againe who was lost and is now found Read the parable and be comforted Vse 6 But then give me leave I beseech you to adde one use more Let it not seeme a digression which truly I conceive a seasonable direction and that is Since prayer is so effectuall and consequently so usefull in these calamitous times let us from hence be all directed especially upon this day of solemn humiliation to make our humble confession unto God and here principally of such sinnes as may be thought to have the greatest hand in these great judgements that are upon our Land We finde this to have been the constant practise of the Saints of God Thus did good Nehemiah he wept and mourned fasted and prayed Nehem. 1. 4. and withall makes a large confession of great sins ver 6. 7. and more largely Chap. 9. 33 34 35. he confesseth the sinnes of their Kings and Princes of their Priests and of their Fathers and of all the people Thus also did Ezra as appeareth Ezr. 9. 5 6. Thus Daniel exceeding them both Dan. 9. 4 c. I prayed unto the Lord my God and made my confession and said O Lord the great and dreadfull God c. We have sinned and have committed iniquitie and have rebelled c. An example worthy to be imitated and therefore worthy to be read over and over againe and to be learned and put in practise by us all And for our help in this holy duty suffer me to present unto you some of those foule offences that have provoked God against us and which may be the present matter of our mourning and of our serious confession before God First I shall begin where I fear our miseries began Our prophets have prophecied lies and the priests have ruled by their means and the people love to have it so Ier. 5. 31. The dayes of visitation are come the dayes of recompense are come Israel shall know it The prophet is a foole and the spirituall man is mad for the multitude of thine iniquitie and the great hatred Hos 9. 7. Our Nadabs and Abihu's Aarons sonnes have offered incense with strange fire before the Lord and no marvell then if fire be gone forth from the Lord to devour them The story of those men Levit. 10. and of their fire is by divers Interpreters expounded and applied to such things as have been the great abuses of our times Procopius upon the place saith a Exemplum habemus clarissinum humana non admiscenda divinis We have here a cleare example that humane things are not to be mixed with divine And have not we mixed Apocryphall writings with the Canon of the word of God and which is more to be lamented have we not preferred them before the divine Scriptures b Calend and Order for reading c. Before the Common prayer Our directions for the publike service so punctually to be observed by the late commands upon us do in expresse termes tell us that certaine books and chapters of the Old Testament are left unread as least edifying and yet you shall find by perusing the