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spirit_n	father_n	jesus_n	lord_n	17,123	5	3.7490	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87204	A declaration and proclamation of the Deputy-General of Ireland, concerning the present hand of God in the visitation of the plague; and for the exercise of fasting and prayer in relation thereunto.	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1650 : Ireton); Ireton, Henry, 1611-1651.	1650 (1650)	Wing I1030; Thomason E612_3; ESTC R206477	7,242	15

and do hereby Appoint accordingly the first second and third Tuesdays in the ensuing Moneth of August to be kept and observed as times especially set apart for Publique Humiliation with Fasting and Prayer upon the occasions and for the ends and purposes before expressed On the first whereof to begin the same at the Head-quarters or Camp and at Clonmel Youghal Cork and other Garisons and places to which notice hereof shall come before and the second and third to be observed both at the same and all other places as notice hereof shall be further spread On which days at the several places as aforesaid respectively I require all Officers both Military and Civil for those under their respective Charges carefully to see to it that there be a general abstinence so far as comeliness and necessity will permit from all worldly labors bodily food and other the outward comforts of this life whereof our unprofitableness and iniquities and particularly our usual excess in them and over-valuing or other abuse of them render us most unworthy as also from all sports and recreations And likewise to take notice of and punish by Imprisonment or other fitting Penalties proportionably portionably to the Offences not onely such as shall contemptuously do to the contrary hereof but also any such as shall be found from Idleness or from contempt or slighting of Religion or of the hand of God in his present dispensations to neglect the joyning with others in Prayer and Religious Exercise to the purposes aforesaid in one place Society or other not according to the Popish way And I exhort all true Professors of the Reformed Religion in the fear and dread of God for the love of Jesus Christ and from the bowels of Charity and fellow-feeling of each others Miseries to be seriously affectionate in this Exercise and that in their Addresses to the Throne of Grace for the aforesaid concernments of their own they be mindeful also of the Troubles and Temptations of their Brethren wherewith they are conflicting though in differing kindes in other Nations and especially in England and Scotland where besides many other both Iniquities and Judgements that most sad and abhorred evil is now more then ever to be found and further to be feared That Brethren professing and in each party some as there 's reason to believe really having the same Faith and hope of the Gospel and the same Cause of Common Concernment against the world of enemies to Christ his Spirit and Kingdom that thirst and watch to destroy both parties yet either from offence and weakness or peevishness or from worldly interest not onely have been and are loaded and wounded the one part by the other with foul and hateful reproaches to the dishonor and scandal of the Gospel and the rejoycing and advantage of those their Enemies and provoked one at the other and one of them to take the interest and assistance of the said Enemies against the other and to execute the one upon the other that destruction by those Enemies designed against both which sad spectacle most grievous to every true Christian heart as it calls for deepest Humiliation on both parts especially on that whence the cause hath been most given or the offence with least cause and most impatience taken so it requires most earnest Prayer and Intercession to our God and Father of those that are faithful on either part which I desire accordingly in these our Exercises may be used that for the Merits and Mediation and by the Power and Spirit of his Son Christ Jesus our Lord Head and eldest Brother the great Reconciler and Peacemaker betwixt God and Man and amongst men his Members each with other and from his Fatherly bowels and pity towards his weak and froward children he would now in the extremity of time appear and mercifully interpose and bring forth some expedient when men can or will finde none to avoid and hinder if it be his will this hateful and dreadful evil and mischief and for that purpose would put forth and enlarge in all that are his children in both Nations that sweet Spirit of Peace and Love as well as Righteousness and Judgement which is his Sons to convince and reprove every one of them for their several offences and evils that any way occasion this or lead to it and to overpower and work them unto a disposition of giving and receiving satisfaction and of bearing and forbearing towards each other and that especially in the stronger towards the weak and every one as far as they have been faulty givers or impatiently and unjustly takers of the offence to take shame to themselves and give glory to God and that so he would pardon the sin take away the offences and heal the breaches betwixt his people and discover the hypocrisie and defeat the designs of those his enemies that watch the advantage for the ruine of them all and to raise thereupon their own corrupt interests against Godliness and Honesty that none that have interest in Jesus Christ may further be drawn into or proceed in any Engagements to the destruction of their Brethren the opposing of his Spiritual Kingdom and work in the world or the partaking with those parties and powers that are enemies thereunto But if it be his good pleasure and he see it conducing to the glory of his work at last That there should be any such Engagement even to Blood and further War That then pardoning the weaknesses and failings he would still witness to the integrity and simplicity of those his poor Servants in this same old Cause of His who have through his Grace followed him therein according to their light with faithfulness to the original Grounds substance and principal ends thereof with least mixture of their own or other worldly corrupt interests in the prosecution of it and with truest desires and endeavors for the suppressing or restraining of the Common Enemies thereof for the Deliverance Protection and Advancement of those that love and fear the Lord and wait for his appearance and in the mean time for preserving amongst all such the unity of faith in the bond of peace and love And that if he shall yet see it good to compleat or prosecute any further the outward Victories of his people against their outward Enemies and Oppressors in the world he would glorifie the Power and Vertue of the Spirit of his Son in them now at last in giving them through it to overcome spiritually the Temptations of prosperity and of the good things of the world as hitherto it hath been by their overcoming all Tryals and Sufferings in the evils thereof Now lastly for the better and speedier communication of what is herein required or desired I do hereby further Appoint the same to be Printed and Published Given at the Leaguer before Waterford July 30. 1650. H IRETON Deputy General FINIS