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spirit_n	covenant_n	heart_n	new_a	6,959	5	6.8797	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97301	Zion's sad tears, for Nineveh's just fears. Or, Hours of mourning, for yeers of sinning; Being some few directed observations of divine mercy, & sinful returns: with an humble offering towards regulation of land and maritime affairs. By a humble seeker of truth and peace.	Humble seeker of truth and peace.	1653 (1653)	Wing Z14; Thomason E684_25; ESTC R207055	12,707	27

wish not ruine or that it spoyl not you because you manage it no better either take your hearts and hands to you to maintain Publick interest or draw aside take Physick a while and admit others that you dare trust as Deputies with that or part of that high trust in you commit your selves to the preserver of men and let nothing be wanting in by through or from you that may manifest your selves to be Patres Patriae advancers of the Kingdom of Christ and the prosperities of his Saints Which that you may do shall be the prayer of the Author to the chief Author of mercy To my honest Fellow-Commoners TRuly Sirs I have nothing worthy to be called a present for you in this day of your great Tryal but if you will accept it I render you the sorrowful countenance of a dejected heart wishing it might sigh and mourn it self away for your deliverance which sure will approach every night hath its morning and that its perfect day When God hath afforded you mercies greater then ever putting your Trustees in fair wayes of establishing your long-desired Rights have you been truly thankful or have not your fresh sinnes still called and renewed more judgements Seriously I now fear your case yet the Lord will if you trust him not suffer poor souls for ever to groan under the Altar of mercy but give them a glorious issue of their desires Patiently wait stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Man can do no more then God permits nor can Pharaoh with all his Chariots pass the Red Sea but ye may escape if ye steer affairs by Divine direction Well this is further to try your spirits if not humble and lay them in the dust If ye are perfect Christians ye cannot refuse your Masters Cross But say you We expected our Freedomes and external Priviledges to be setled long since I bewail your want I desire to mourn with you When God had even planted you in peace and had pruned you what fruit brought you forth were you not so bad as my self a barren Fig-tree which justly deserv'd this curse upon all our hopes or indeed brought ye not forth wilde grapes which occasioned God to pluck down your walles and leave you a prey to the Bears and Wolves of the Forrest but those of you that are in Christ shall be in safety if Warre and pestilence cover the Land he will watch tenderly over his and preserve them from all dangers Gog and Magog must fall Truth onely stand Oh Friends be ye just and upright then shall your path be as the shining light which shineth more and more unto the perfect day and be ye not as the wicked which walk in darkness who know not whereat they stumble I shall desire you to offer up your hearts in sighs and groanes to the God of mercy for an happy restitution of your Christian Priviledges now sinking by reason of those corruptions Observe Divine Providence let nothing be wanting towards support of the Church yet Militant for your sakes I mean those that shall go forth for you for those must bring in Materials to build the true Temple as David did To all present Powers WHat God or man by him shall dictate observe and follow lest God finde you so disobedient as your Predecessors and accordingly afflict though he may love you For God was once in the still voyce I wish the same may modelize you as it will and manifest more to you then the poor Author I desire to be spent for you and my poor Country I mean spiritually that ye may also taste and receive more excellent things excellency waits at your gates To the Mariners and Sea-Commanders HAth God brought you to this for punishment or mercy judge ye Oh what Blaspheming and Retrogade spirits have ye been Oh Friends judge your selves in time lest ye be now adjudged to torments Shall I deal plainly with you Ye are the Vessels of Wrath which the Omnipotent hath appointed to scourge so bad as your selves though more numerous some of you must fall for the rest by a Rod of your own gleaning yet it shall preserve you though ye cannot but by faith espie the hand that moves it Oh in time with me bewail the Face of affairs and Divine judgements which your treacherous sinnes to God and man hath call'd upon our own heads Pray why was not victory pursued when your Enemy fled before you Was it to betray your Country or enlarge their fears sorrowes and exhaust their declining Sweat and Treasure Well for this I tell you though the Lord of Hosts in whose Almighty presence we are alwaies will notwithstanding though for your sins punishing you let you by another hand more then yours see deliverance Then trust God and his pure Spirit in his Saints leave Oaths and wickedness that ye may be converted and live and indeed be Instruments yet of as much glory and Conquests as the God of Forces hath made some of his Children by Land that you or yours may see Peace established in Righteousness and so Posterity have occasion to bless God for you though wicked Instruments of his glory for now the ungodly will punish the wicked O let the Spirit of Christ reign in and over you that it may not onely deliver you and us in the evil day but confirm you to the enjoyment of the great glory shall be discovered and made manifest in though out of the flesh then be ye conformable to the dictates of the same walk humbly in his sight that ye may be bold as Lions in your Enemies and they be crush'd before that greater invisible Power in or with you which I most heartily wish To all people of and in God I Suppose our Bears must not onely destroy those without but rob them of their Whelps if they make haste and by or before the beginning of March next resolutely and unanimously attempt and persevere in it then trust God with the issue two or three bouts will do the work if you and they desire the Lord of Hosts to do it for us to further which I wish a new Covenant written in every ones heart and spirit to seek Truth and Peace and pursue it immediately after the deliverance and in the height of our Conquest that mercy may be minded and so burning Coals heaped on the heads of the Enemies and I wish the rigid Presbyters and Anabaptists ruine not themselves Also a Publick Treasurie to be erected for every one worth above 200 l. de claro to advance a twentieth part of substance towards the propagation of this great work to be repay'd immediately after victory if our State can bear it with interest at 8 per cent with the voluntary contribution of others in that nature towards support of affairs and of the Widow Fatherless and Orphans that must happen Also the Soldier and Mariner when duly paid will be humbler and bettter servants As to suppression of Tories Moss-Troopers and Vagabounds in Armes which must increase in Ireland and Scotland That in the first place a Marshall-General and strict Advocate with Force may continually convenient rest in a place allowed be allotted to Quarter on their Landlords or Grandees and setting forth a Proclamation for every one of those Wolves to come in by a due season immediately else hang up every one at the next Tree they shall meet in Armes and all suspected disaffected disarmed As for the Navy honest Commanders of the Army joyn'd with the Naval to qualifie the Spirit will crush the Enemy Had not Sol afflicted Merc'ry in Cancer Crabs to Rams had never found an answer Soli Deo Gloria FINIS Coronat Opus Let Bears decay Wolves fall and Lions stand First gone others wasting lost and last command When heaven once shall unfold this Mysterie Heavens in earth receive a Jubilee Wake not my Love when now wishes slumber Crush your Enemy though exceeds number The Author hath been too busie for you Yet his pointed work he must doe Let Babylon fall that truth may flourish Then Peace Joy all blessings shall you nourish

preaching in season and out of season fearing not what man can do unto you in persecution and out of persecution You may observe the first Horn of the Beast in the last unhappy Queens time fell immediately with it depending thereon the Prelacy the second I must say comes too near your selves and ye have had Power to procure the Image of the Beast to speak and some to be slain which worshipped not the Beast But beware though you cannot see it Babylon is faln is faln in the hour of Gods judgement the great City and the reason is rendred She made all Nations drink of the Wine of the wrath of her fornication But let such as tast thereof take heed they drink not of the wine of the wrath of God and his indignation poured forth without mixture Your Hierarchy is even grown threed-bare and as it crush'd the Bishops 't is but just yours be crush'd You 'll say I am a mad fellow to tell you Diana is falling I am of your opinion yet not ashamed to maintain or write truth at any time prosecute me if you dare you shall shortly be your own prosecutors so well as I have been mine then read me some pretty Homily of your conversion to comfort me But lest I should make you so mad as my self let me soberly advise you to joyn your Prayers publickly and privately with the Saints for the deliverance of a justly-afflicted people peradventure God may have mercy on you and them if ye unfainedly repent amend and advance Christ without private end To the Covenanters SUrely in 43 my Friend was an Infant at Law yet having then a place by his Master Gamliel's Excellency in mundane affairs worth more then 100 l per an he according to the trust on and duty in him tendred the Covenant to many amongst the rest viz. the Prelatical and Royal Clergie and Gentry whom he found though silenc'd their imperfections that after much trouble on their own spirits they could in humane eyes imbrace any thing to preserve their large Revenues without seeking first the Kingdom of heaven laying up treasure there notwithstanding at that time some chosen ones refused to take that earthly honour from the dust by such means For Oh my friends if so to God and your own spirits tell me the Plot and issue was it not more from Northern Policy then Southern Piety that we should ingage to preserve a Nebuchadnezzars or Belshazzar's dying fate with yours though then by those in hostility against both ye espyed not the Vision and Hand-writing on the wall Truly I cannot but acknowledge my friend declined it though his Master brought forth more Law then Gospel for it and suddenly his employment God calling him thence by his own hand to a more retired way lest he should abound and wax worse fell from him as several times since on other occasions Had this Idol-creature and other things before and since entred into been or savoured more of God then man so much blood treasure sweat surely had never been extorted to serve the three Nations and yet no deliverance no my hearts I doubt you yet but grope as 't is convenient till true light appear but when it doth or shall glorifie the giver reject not the means but embrace it lest your condemnation in the great day be just which asseveration I believe you ignorantly took in the conclusion of the Covenant hereupon I intreat you for Gods cause to consider you have doted more on man then God seek Gods face more mans viz. honour and carnality less and less write but a new Covenant on your hearts to serve the God of glory promote Christs Kingdom and seek the union and common defence of his people more now then ever never more need then joyning your constant prayers therewith trust God with the issue it may be Crowned with everlasting success if God once speak the word however you shall have done your duty for what is earthly tends to its Centre but what is heavenly in you to a glorious Essence Be wise in time and repent lest ye all likewise perish the Kingdom of heaven being now close at hand The the moderate People of the three Nations O My beloved ones though you may be styled Laodiceans or worse continue in your Sphere Serpentine and Dove-like God will do glorious things by his despifed people in this latter Act now in motion stand still and see the salvation of the Lord be confident therein and ye shall be hid in the great day as the Apple of his Eye nay if ye be his he will rebuke Kings and Princes for your sakes yea he will crush them for the same Therefore with humble but faithful hearts seek his Face if you have not had your hands in blood ye may yet live to see Salomon's Temple builded however none truly seeks his Face and returns unfatisfied You 'll carnally object We have laid forth our selves for the Publick good and can do no more Give me leave to say Your Prayers and Tears may be yet enlarged then sure contribution of relief to those that go forth for you will not be wanting better do so till the Almighty send you deliverance then become subjected to the Conquering Tyrant when God shall by any means though externally despised grant it then you must embrace it In the interim The Lord God of glory continue or give you his Peace which passeth all understanding so unfeignedly prayes the whimsical but submissive Author of this his latter Piece To every Individual Member of the Army HAst not thou been one of those that God Almighty the Lord of Hosts hath been pleased to bless in the tryals of fire and smoak Hast thou not in thy time sent or endeavoured to return Trophies of thy success to thy friends and Brethren at home to magnifie thy self Didst thou or thy Assistants ne'er promise the people succour or assistance to procure their Freedomes and Liberties What then did they pay thee for to continue ever upon their charge and never endeavour it or indeed to call thee to Maritime as well as Land-affairs Oh ye foolish Galatians who hath bewitched you to seek God little man and thy interest much forbear seeking truth and freedome and pursue vanity Indeed what fruitful returnes hast thou given to thy Preserver You will say you were a servant I hope not Mercenary you might advise nay truly urge better Counsel when the House was declining you must therefore now help to support it Well now it seems that the Lord by some confiding more in War then Truth and Peace must call you or your Comrade once more forth as well to qualifie the wickedness of the Marriners a spirit bad enough and too too soon though lately rais'd as to try once more to bring home victory from an insulting Foe even at the gate Deny not when you are call'd cast your selves into the armes of your heavenly Father he shall direct you and his chosen