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A80908 A declaration of His Highness, with the advice of his council inviting the people of this Commonwealth to a day of solemn fasting and humiliation.; Orders in Council. 1655-11-21 England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell); England and Wales. Council of State. aut 1655 (1655) Wing C7078; Thomason 669.f.20[19]; ESTC R211672 1,017 1

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A DECLARATION Of His Highness with the advice of His Council inviting the people of this Commonwealth to a Day of Solemn Fasting and Humiliation WHen We call to mind together with the repeated loving kindnesses of God to his People in these Nations the late rebukes We have received the Tares of Division that have been sown by the envious one and the growth they have had through his Subtilty amongst Vs the abhominable blasphemies vented spreading of late through the Apostacy of and the abuse of liberty by many professing Religion the continued Series of Difficulties We have been and are exercised under by the secret and open practises of those that bearing evil will unto Sion have Balaam-like attempted all waies to frustrate Our hopes and endeavours of such a Settlement and Reformation as hath been so long contended for as also the weight of the work of this Generation We have thought it a duty becoming Vs not only Our Selves to lie low before the Lord and to have recourse to him by Prayer and Humiliation but also to call upon and invite all the People of God in these Nations to joyn with Vs in Solemn and Earnest Supplications to the Throne of Grace a way wherein We have often experimented the good presence of God That the Lord will be pleased truly to humble Vs and the Nation under his righteous hand that We may be every one searching out the plague of his own heart and turn unfeignedly from the evil of Our waies that notwithstanding all Our provocations the Lord may be pleased to return smile upon Vs That he will disappoint the Designs of those that labour to lift themselves up against the interest of Christ and his People That he will rebuke the aforesaid evils and give his people to know the things that belong to their Peace that so We may with one heart and shoulder serve the Lord both Theirs and Ours That his presence may be with those that are more especially engaged in and entrusted with the great Affairs of the Nation by a Spirit of Counsel and Wisdom to enable them faithfully to discharge their weighty Trust and that they may bear some proportion of serviceableness to the great Works Designs and Promises of God concerning the Kingdom of his Son our blessed Lord in these later times and may be used as Instruments in his hand for the continuance and increase of the Reformation and the Security and Settlement of these Nations Vpon these and such like grounds We have appointed Thursday the sixth day of December next to be set apart for a day of Publick Humiliation And the Ministers of the several Congregations are to give notice hereof on the Lords day next before the said sixth day of December Given at Whitehall this 21. day of November 1655. Printed and Published by His Highness special Commandment London Printed by Henry Hills and John Field Printers to His Highness 1655.