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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85529	Gods deliverance of man by prayer. And mans thankefulnesse to God in prayses. In a sermon by reason of the lecturers absence in the Church of Saint Bartholmewes Exchange, on Ash-Wendesday [sic], at the generall fast, proposed. But at that time by a company of church intruders very rudely opposed. And now at this time, for the publike satisfaction of all men faithfully in print exposed. by I. G. D.D. Rector there.	Grant, John, d. 1653.	1642 (1642)	Wing G1520; Thomason E141_13; ESTC R7665	17,142	34

his Fatherly affections chayned And marke it he wills us to call upon him importunately but so resteth not hee prescribeth us formes of prayer in his sacred word puts the matter into our hearts and the very words and tearmes into our mouths Hence it is that the spirit by the Prophet is called the Spirit of grace and of supplication Zach. 12. 10. Hence that also of the holy Apostle The Spirit helpeth our infirmities for we know not what wee should pray for as wee ought but the Spirit it selfe maketh intercession for us with groaning which cannot bee uttered And hee that searcheth the heart knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit because he maketh intercession for the Saints according to the will of God Rom. 8 26 27. Alasse faulty and guilty are wee all of us and durst not without warrant and enablement approach unto our God the troubles on us would even overwhelm us and as it were keepe us from so much as looking up were we not thus amiably invited thereunto Call upon me in the day of trouble What troubles of ●●te have these three kingdoms under one Soveraigne been cast into Nay still are in and under Our sister Nation Ireland even weltreth in bloud and burneth in mutuall enragements none there secured of his life scarce for a moment and are not we or we ought to be surely even drowned in teares for them for them Yea and for our selves too who are in mutuall enragements and various suddaine uproares through our misaffections and misinterpretations and misconstructions of every thing bloudy mindednesse takes place in the most and the casting about how to entrap and enwrap one another in miseries is the common misery of us all what calumniations are vented printed uncensured unpunished what jealousies each gainst others are every where closely fomented Charity the badge of Christianity and coverer of what may be covered is from us exiled and who can bee most of all uncharitable is the thing every where laboured after By this shall all men know saith the patterne and Patron of Charity our Lord Iesus even by this shall all men know that yee are my Disciples if yee love one another Iohn 13. 35. But with sorrow and shame enough too may it now be said All men by this may know We are none of Christs Disciples that wee hate one another So raging so outragious so notorious is our mutuall hatred Many knotts tye us none will hold us being one to another eye-soares if not heart-soares As strangers are our enter-viewers not as compatriots our conferences differences our * protestations detestations Reformation is intended deformation even in our Church assemblies and most remarkably there and unblushingly practised O! into what Schismes do we runne Into what Sects are we dissected Assunder are we rent one from the other yea where men rope together it is but in a sandy manner the least motion dissipateth parteth the sandily roped together and commotions not usuall in this age Amsterdam England Beloved who so is not troubled with these troubles hath no life no soule of Christianity at all left in him These and the like considerations as diverse others there are ought to incite us unto constant and instant prayer amidst them all in throngs upon us of these Nations at this time let us I say pray that from us they may yet timely be removed that the full and finall blow from heaven decide not our controversies in so much rancor steeped O! that it were come to the Character of the Church Christians Primitive age Corunum via una One heart one way and till it come to that troubles will involve us and when it comes to that to all the world about us may we be a President and an encouragement thereunto mee thinkes the many manifold and manifest preservations of our God should frame us all as one Man to bring this about to bee exemplary Christians to the whole world round about us I shall recite but a few yet these pregnant and of fresh memory and remarkable observation Can that Octogessimus octavus mirabilis annus that wondrous yeare of 88. ever be forgotten It was the yeare of Englands preservation and of Spaines and Romes abasement trouble was on us and we rid of trouble ere we knew it was so neare nor must the yeare 97. passe unremembred Spaine then had a second blow and England a second triumph As formerly the Armado stiled invincible was ruined so then were their forces and policies too shamefully defeated and the English fleete for another purpose designed brought upon them by the windes to sinke them into the waters or bring them Captivated unto our Land Those fell out in the dayes of the Maiden Queene famous Elizabeth for peace at home and victory abroad renowned The next fell out in King Iames his Reigne in the yeare 1605. The powder Treason was an hellish plot contrived most strangely Heaven went beyond hell in the businesse and providence outreached divellishnesse entangled them who long had the trap ready to have ruinated Protestancy for ever In the yeare 1639. were not these two Nations in one Island under one King the present breath of our Nostrils put upon a mutuall internecion and is not that turned into a most blessed reunion We are both the wonder the envie of Popish Territories God even then preserving us when we were ready to be seized on as a prey unto mercilesse teeth and to the Sepulcher throates of the Pontifician generation amongst us no stories can more represent the vigilancy of mercy over any people then can ours as David when hee was to encounter Goliah the stripling shepheard that Tower of flesh loaden with Armes and Instruments of death said He that delivered me from the Lion and the Beare will likewise from this uncircumcised Philistine deliver me so may we say He that delivered us from such and such troubles is the same still is willing and ready to deliver us from our troubles incumbent and imminent all these intricacies we are in and all the hovering and surrounding mischiefes what ever If our prayers can but lay hold on Gods promises no troubles can trouble us Call upon me in the day of trouble and I will deliver thee Will deliver thee Gods promises are as good as performances they are Yea and Amen in Christ unto Gods glory 2 Cor. 1. 20. Yea in the giving forth Amen in the performance certaine constant most firmly firme for evermore Our welfare and Gods glory are enwrapped in them No marvaile then is it that Prayer is so effectuall with God when by the heart hand mouth of faith unto him presented in the Name of Our Lord Iesus Christ when thus we are enabled to pray no marvaile that our prayer is to purpose effectuall No marvaile that God hearing Himselfe in us upon that audience giveth us deliverance in a way and manner to the whole world remarkeable And observe with mee that the Commandement Call upon me includeth