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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87215	A treaty of pacification. Or Conditions of peace between God and man. / By H.I.	Isaacson, Henry, 1581-1654.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1642 (1642)	Wing I1061; Thomason E1113_6; ESTC R202596	35,424	106

lyeth hard upon us 86.6 and thou hast vexed us with all thy stormes Thy wrathfull displeasure goeth over us 16. and the feare of thee hath undone us Thou hast given us over to the sword and art wrath with thine inheritance 〈…〉 Thou feedest us with the bread of teares ●0 5 and givest us plenty of teares to drinke Thou hast made us a very strife to our neighbours 6. and our enemies laugh us to soorne O Lord we acknowledge that all this is come upon us Psr● 9 1● 〈◊〉 13.117 for our evill deeds and that thou ô Lord art righteous and thy judgements upright Because we have not hearkned to thy word Ier. ● ●7 nor to thy law but reiected it thou hast brought evill upon this Nation We have bin disobedient and rebelled against thee N● 9.16 and cast thy Law behind our backs We have sinned 〈◊〉 7.10 what shall we doe to thee ô thou preserver of men Why hast thou set us as a marke against thee so that we are burdens to our selves Lord we cover not our transgressions with Adam Iob 11.13 by hiding our iniquities But we abhorre our selves Ps 41. ● 41.4 and earnestly repent and say Lord be mercifull to us hea●e our souls for we have sinned against thee Take notice ô Lord of our misery Out of the deep of misery and affliction have we called to thee ô Lord 130 1● Lord heare our voyce Oh let thine eares consider the voyce of our complaint 2. Enter not into iudgement we humbly pray thee with thy servants ô Lord for in thy sight shall no man living be iustified 143. ● The Heavens are not cleane in thy sight Iob 15 15. How much more abhominable and filthy is man 16. that drinkes iniquity like water Remember ô Lord the infirmitie of our nature Consider that of our selves we are but weake Isal 6● That we are but flesh 78.39 a wind that passeth away and commeth not againe Thou knowest ô Lord whereof we are made ●03 14. thou remembrest that we are but dust That our dayes are but as grasse and as a flower of the field 15● 16. over which as soone as the wind goeth it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more Remember also O Lord thine own nature That thou art full of compassion 8. and mercy long suffering and of great goodnesse That thou canst not be alwayes chiding ● nor keepe thine anger for ever That thou are good and gracious 〈…〉 5. and of great mercy to all that call upon thee That thou art loving to every man Psal 145 5● and that thy mercy is over all thy works That when thou punishest Esa 28.21 it is not thy proper worke and that thine own worke is mercy Remember ô Lord thy Name The Lord the Lord God Exod 34.6 mercifull and gracious long suffering and abundant in goodnesse and truth That thou art a Father of Mercies 2 Cor. 1.3 Remember thy Sons Name That he is called the Lamb Ioh 1.26 that taketh away the sins of the World That he is called the Redeemer of the World Iob 19 25. Psal● 9 14. ●itus 2 14. That he is called the Saviour of the World Ioh 4.42 That he is called our Mediater and Advocate 1 Tim 2 ● 1 Ioh 2.2 Remember the Name of the Holy Spirit That he is called a Comforter Ioh 16.7 Help us therefore ô God of our salvation Psal 7● 9 for the glory of thy Name Oh deliver us and be mercifull to our sins for thy Names Sake We are called by thy Name 〈◊〉 4.9 ô Lord leave us not Remember ô Lord thy Promise That if a sinner repent and turne from his transgressions Ezek. 18.30 his iniquity shall not be his ruine That when we call upon thee Psal 50.15 in time of trouble thou wilt deliver us Lord Psal 86 7.10●●● we call upon thee in a day of trouble Hide not thy face from us in the day of trouble encline thine eare unto us in the day when we call answer us speedily Remember Lord that we are the work of thine hands Thou art our Father Esa 64.8 We are the clay and thou the Potter and we are all the worke of thy hands Be not wrath very sore ô Lord neither remember iniquity for ever Behold see we beseech thee we are all thy people Forsake not ô Lord the worke of thine owne hands Ps 138. ● And we are not only thy handiworke Gen. 1. ●● Col 3 ●● but the Image of thy Countenance Deface it not ô Lord. We are Members of thy Mysticall Body 1 Co●●15 ● 1.27 O Lord we beseech thee cut us not off We are the price of thy Sonnes Blood 1 Cor 6 20. 1 Pet. 1. ●9 We are bought with a price We were not redeemed with silver and gold but with the pretious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot O Lord undervalue it not Thou ô Lord hast an especiall property in us Ps 119.94 1 6 16. cast us not off We are thine ô save us We are thy servants Esa 64. ● We are all thy people Mar 4.38 Esa 63.16 Lord carest thou not that we perish Though we be undutifull children yet are we thy Children Doubtlesse thou art our Father Thou art our Father ô Lord. Though wee have lost the duty of children Aug. yet thou hast not lost the love of a Father Behold ô Lord we repent of our backslidings Sorrow is continually before us for them Isa 38.17.18 We confesse our wickednesse and are heartily sorry for them and cry Lam 5 16. woe unto us that we have sinned And we know that a broken spirit is a sacrifice to thee Psal 51 19. a broken and contrite heart ô Lord thou wilt not despise It hath bin thy practise to shew mercy Call to remembrance ô Lord Psal 25 5. thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesse which have bin ever of old Thou hast bin our refuge from one generation to another 90 1 And we humbly pray thee that as thou hast bin our succour 27 11. leave us not now neither forsake us ô God of our salvation But rather 80 3. turne us againe ô God shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole Turne us ô God our Saviour 85.4 and let thine anger cease from us Shew some good token upon us for good 86 17. that they which hate us may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen and comfortea us O satisfie us with thy Mercy 90 14. and that soone so shall we reioyce and be glad all the dayes of our life In the multitude of the sorrowes that are in our hearts let thy comforts ô Lord refresh our soules Another Have mercy upon us ô God

as the Prophet willeth us A Sinner is out of his right way Iocl 2 15. hee must therefore turne into it And this turning should bee while wee are in Prosperity Peace and Health when all things are ex sententiâ with us as wee would desire wee should turne to GOD of our owne accord without compulsion Luc 19 4● and then it were Sacrificium acceptabile but seeing wee have omitted that and that we knew not the things which belonged to our peace yet in distresse GOD will not reject a true and unfained Conversion Again the turning Joel speaks of must be to God not to sinne from one sinne to another Nor must it be vertigo capitis a giddinesse or turning of the braine but cordis of the heart not onely our minde but our will and affections must bee changed and then as S. Augustine saith Conversio nostra inveniet Deum paratum our Conversion will find God ready to turne from his wrath and to receive us to favour and there is no sinne so great Isid but hee will remit to a Convert His goodnesse and power is so great saith Augustine that there is no offence so hainous which hee will not pardon him that truly turneth to him 4. Another ingredient is Contrition which is a breaking of the heart with sorrow and griefe for our sins and that by committing them we have so highly offended so great and good a God And it alludeth to things which being hard are broken in pe●ces by some hard instrument and so the heart hardned by sin is as it were broken by sorrow and grief It is somtimes called compunctio cordis compunction or pricking of the heart caused chiefly by feare of Gods wrath against our sins and love to his Majesty and his Commandements Greg. saith Mor Alia est compunctio quae per amorem nascitur alia quae per timorem quià aliud est supplicia fugere aliud praemia desider are Compunction which ariseth by love is one thing and that is another which groweth out of feare because it is one thing to avoid punishment and another to expect a reward This is that which made the Apostles auditours to cry out Act. 2.37 Men and Brethren what shall we doe for the Text saith they were pricked in their hearts Otherwhile it is called Rentino of the heart Icel 2.12 and this is an effect of indignation as the other is of sorrow as you may reade in the Story of S. Stephen after he had pleaded his cause and touched the Jewes to the quick it is said Act. 7 54. their hearts brast for anger For as ripe ulcers are launced with sharpe instruments that the venemous matter may issue out so our hearts swolne by the venome of sin are by this kind of Contrition opened and the Malignant humour let forth Now this Contrition hath many branches 1. The first is Humiliation Depositio excellentiae not only laying aside our best cloathes and putting on those that are more vile as of old they did humbling themselves in sack-cloth but in abasing our selves with Jacob Gen. 18.27 saying Non sum dignus I am not worthy of the least of thy blessings c. Chrysostome saith Contritio est humilitas cordis vera compunctio Lib de co●punct magna agere humilia loqui Contrition is humblenesse of heart true compunction to do great things and speak of small and meane 2. The second is smiting upon the brest with the Publican Luc. 18.13 Ier. 31.19 and smiting on the Thigh with the people in captivity in signe of true Repentance and detestation of sin 3. Another and not the least is weeping an mourning the shedding of teares and grieving for our sins And first of tears 1. Of teares there are 3. sorts 1. Naturall which arise from the losse of goods death of friends infirmities injuries received and the like 2. Hurtfull are they which craft hypocrisie and dissembling wring from us as the teares of harlots which are compared to the tears of Crocodiles but these two kinds of tears are not those which be proper to true Contrition 3. Wholesome tears are they which proceed from the Holy Spirit as from the fountain and of these there are two kinds one the signes of godly sorrow the other of spirituall joy One of hatred for sin the other of love to God The tears of Contrition are demonstrations of hate to sin and the tears of desire to see God are signes of love 1. The tears of Contrition proper to this subject of Repentance are powerfull with God In Esaium Hierom saith Oratio Deum lenit sed lachrymae cogunt Prayer pacifies God but tears force him to grant our suits Ps 126.7 David saith They that sow in teares shall reape in joy In Serm. And Chrysostome speaketh thus Nemo ad Deum aliquando flens accessit qui non quod postulavit accepit No man ever came to God weeping that obtained not what he desired And therefore it was that the Prophet Ieremy so often called upon the people in the time of Gods visitation for weeping that they might appease his wrath and wept himselfe as he testifies Lam. 1.16 For these things I weepe mine eye even mine eye casteth out water because the Comforter should refresh my soule Ier. 9. ● And O that mine head were full of water and mine eyes a fountaine of teares that I might weepe day and night for the slaine of the daughter of my people And in the same Chapter telling how God would feed the people with Wormwood and give them gall to drinke and send the Sword aft●r them he cals the women to mourne and weepe Lastly Lam. 2.18 19 hee perswades them that teares might run downe like a river day and night and to lift up their faces like water before the Lord to avert his heavy judgements from them In the sacred Scriptures there are many examples of those that shed teares to appease the wrath of God We will touch some of them The first were the people of the Jewes who upon the Angels reprooving of them for their sinnes ●lud 2.4 lift up their voyce and wept and called the name of that place the place of weepers and teares And that these teares were from the heart and obtained Gods favour appeares by the end for a little after it is said They served the Lord all the dayes of Joshuah and all the dayes of the Elders that out-lived Joshuah 7. Those then are true saving tears to which a setled change of life succeeds The next we find are the same people who upon two discomfitures 20.26 came up into the house of God and wept c. They held a solemne Fast one part whereof consisted in weeping In the next place we have the example of King David a man abounding plentifully in pious teares as well for himselfe and his sinnes as for the sinnes of others For