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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91942	A letter, discovering the cause of Gods continuing wrath against the nation, notwithstanding the present endeavors of reformation: directing to the meanes of appeasing that wrath; and encouraging to constancy in those endeavours: / written with much judgement and pious affection, by Mr Nathaniel Rogers, a godly and learned Divine now in New-England, to a worthy member of the Honourable House of Commons, bearing date, Decemb. 17, 1643. Imprimatur Edmund Calamy.	Rogers, Nathaniel, 1598-1655.	1644 (1644)	Wing R1821; Thomason E53_20; ESTC R23205	8,921	12

Kingdomes unto Christs Ecclesiam ad mundi normam Regnorum Statuum componere est merè Domum tapetibus accommodare I know the contrary hath been the professed judgement of many and I feare the practise and way of more inclines thereunto But once I hope Christ shall in England be acknowledged All and only in his Church and it shall be the greatest honour unto him to accept him in every of his laws and priviledges And give me leave to use the like argumentation that Bucer whose piety in his works de Regno Christi is worth the reading and observing at this time to King Edward you will not suffer any Parliament priviledges or rights and liberties of subjects to be taken away but will rather hazzard the losse of all shall not zeale and punctualnesse here be much more seasonable and warrantable I doe not think all will be seen at once yet this shall be acceptable service and honour to the Lord Jesus our King if you aime at that one way wherein he will be served and weigh all in the ballances of the sanctuary and preferre the wisedome and authority of his word therein above civill policie humane reason yea universality or antiquity of any practise since the first normall patterne prescribed in the doctrine recorded in the history of the sacred Scriptures And I am perswaded thus much being asserted for truth and sincerely professed as your scope and aimed at in endeavours it shall be acceptable unto the Lord and a blessing to his people Pardon my boldnesse good Sir if I present to your wisest consideration the unhallowed passages that come forth in Mercurius Britanicus of scornefull dishonour put upon the Name and Person of Him who is by you acknowledged the Lords Annointed It 's very aimeable to reade tearmes of honour put upon his Majesty though so farre stirred up against you It 's that which I meddle not with what is cast upon those that are about the King I deeme just to make Remonstrances as things stand wherein even the actions of his Majesty may be complained of for your justification but to put bitter and most contemptuous scoffes upon His royall Person is that which Davids heart could not beare nor will your selves if you take notice of it I am assured and know the offender It 's against not only the course of Scripture but one Article of the late Covenant Though I am thus bold to mention what flies about yet I am not so bold as to accuse any of that Honourable House herein who may be farre from the knowledge hereof Since my setting pen to paper we heard so sad newes as made me lay aside my pen fearing no passage would be to you but since againe much better blessed be the God of our mercy that would not let us sinke in sorrow and the comfort of our comfort is in the religious and blessed Covenant made by you and the Scottish which He who hath wrought it graciously accept it and scale it in all hearts and give us all with you not to make the emphasis of our Joy that it is made with the Scottish but that it s made by them and you with the great God of Heaven that sinne is so humbly acknowledged so holily disavowed and divorced and Gods truth and service so zealously avowed and professed It 's the way whereby Kings have sought and found the Lord and whereby Nehemiah setled the peace of a troubled State You have to all the world avouched the Lord for your God now we looke for Him to avouch you for His people in the sight of the world And now our hearts have gotten some good hold to wrestle with the Lord which we poore worthlesse wormes desire to doe so as your expectations may not be failed of us nor our duties towards you on whom the eyes of the world are set and in whose hands is the Cause of God and the great action of this age for his Church and in this purpose and posture I shall humbly take leave and with all due service and honour to your selfe and worthy Mr M.C. the only one that I have had acquaintance with in that Honourable House which hath now some yeares been more your house then your own home where that worthy and vertuous consort and sweet hopefull children were wont to accompany you to whom with most affectionate respect I desire to be remembred I commit you to the God of the spirits of all flesh who hath honoured you with his highest work and will crowne you with an immortall reward through Christ Jesus the King of Kings and Lord of Lords Ipsw Decemb. 17 1643. Your Worships obliged but especially in the Cause of our Lord Jesus NATH ROGERS FINIS

A LETTER DISCOVERING The Cause of GODS continuing wrath against the Nation notwithstanding the present endeavours of Reformation DIRECTING To the Meanes of appeasing that wrath And Encouraging to Constancy in those Endeavours Written with much Judgement and Pious affection By Mr Nathaniel Rogers A godly and Learned Divine now in New-England To a worthy Member of the Honourable House of Commons bearing Date Decemb. 17 1643. Imprimatur EDMUND CALAMY LONDON Printed by G. M. for Christopher Meredith at the Crane in Pauls Church-yard M.DC.XLIV Honoured Sir OH that I had or could sanctifie the Lord according to his manifold and great administrations of late dayes in England our deare mother It 's not long since we were as men that dreamed dreames when we here at once heard of that which might have been the work of many yeares such a Parliament once more chosen and assembled such liberties granted unto it such acts done by it for Scotland whose peace and liberty procured by your counsels and Englands willing charges I hope shall not be wiped off from your account in the behalfe of the Land against enemies of God Religion Church State such tall cedars felled c. But how suddenly did the Lord bring a black cloud over the Nation and a new presentment of it had we as lying in blood rent with division even such as scarce any cause but the Gospell useth to make filled with alarmes the mart of all rich commodities made the shop of artillery the garden of pleasure the stage of warre in one part of the Countrey and another some Worthies already fallen besides divers no question though of lesse name on earth yet of precious account in Heaven some pined in prisons others spoiled of their estates not to mention miserable Ireland made a very slaughterhouse whiles your home-affaires filling your heads and hands and emptying your purses give advantage to those blood-thirsty sons of that scarlet-whore to execute that cruell rage that cries to Heaven In the midst of all these sad calamities your selves whom God hath honoured to serve him at such a time in that high Court as Pilots and Marriners toyling night and day in a storme longer then that Paul was in to save that precious Barke from shipwrack and utter submersion with all that rich treasure that God hath stored it with especially of precious Saints more precious then the fine gold though accounted as earthen pitchers It hath been matter of admiration unto me often to see how the Lord upholds that House it selfe from dissolution in many respects that you know better but that it s He that hangs the earth upon nothing Iob 26.7 and those whose hearts are faithfull and close to the worke how their heads have held and their spirits not been exhaust and hearts with weatinesse failed and given over who have so many various weighty unusuall cases to attend who were sufficient for these things without divine assistance But not to seeme to forget what I write by troubling you with long writing be pleased to understand hereby our due respect to and remembrance daily and almost continually of the great and high worke that you have in hand and our labours and travailing thoughts and desires according to our condition and measure to promote that Cause which you have the heaviest end of at present lying upon your hands and we say and desire the Lord daily to speake to your hearts what he oft did to his Worthies in their great employment Feare not but be cou●agious you serve a great Lord that is higher then the Kings of the earth and shall reigne in Sion in a victorious cause however oft oppressed and for a people that are deare unto God his Israel which he will deliver his Saints that shall reigne with Christ Jesus But why then are all these things befallen us and where are all his miracles c. Iudg. 6.13 I confesse its a case worthy enquiry and the Lord give an answer of peace unto his servants It 's true that Antichrist will not downe with case not the woman bring forth the man-child that should rule all nations with a rod of iron a son of the Church to reigne without the painefull throwes and bloody sufferings of many Martyrs Pharaoh would not easily let the people goe We our selves inherited the Gospell with a mercifull Reformation not without the ashes of many faithfull witnesses in those Marian dayes yea how long was the Church in her painefull breeding and bringing forth the Truth in the yeares and from under the tyranny of the Romish mystery of iniquity in the bitter persecutions and innumerable slaughters of the Waldenses and others of the same Religion though of severall names The two witnesses were slaine after their sad prophesyings in sackcloth before they are taken up to Heaven yet we must seeke a blameable reason from sinfull sons of men as of the taking away the Truth so of the withholding it from them And it 's no uncharitable guesse to say that the hearts of the people of England are not prepared for the receiving Christ Jesus in his kingdome This is obvious yet the case sticks for the neerenesse of England to this mercy and the suddaine withdrawing of it againe increaseth the darknesse of it Doth the Lord use to refuse zealous Reformation especially in the hands of men of authority that hath made such promises if there were but one such c. Ier. 5.1 Yes it's not without president Israel would correct Benjamins unnaturall wickednesse defended with diabolicall pride and impenitence yet they loose 40000. before they all can punish one such Tribe as vengeance it selfe would not suffer to live Iosiah is zealous in purging and restoring Gods worship his heart of a most choice temper his actions almost all non-paraile matchlesse and superlative yet it stands not there were sins before which God would not pardon 2 King 24.4 no not to the accessaries though they were to the principall Manasseh I mean but it was that those repented not but their hearts hung idolward What remedy then Truly you are the Body representative and there are many of the body personally yea some of all rankes whose sincerity of Repentance I am perswaded the Lord would not refuse And I know your Fasts are many and your care great that all the people of the Land should observe them Blessed be God! Only be pleased to give me leave to suggest one question which it may be you can readily assoyle though my distance keeps me ignorant Hath that Honourable House which hath begun to cast out the persons and things that have so much offended God and good men hath it confessed the guilt of neglecting such Reformation in former Parliaments yea the rejecting of motions presented that way and justifying the then present state of the Church as being pure c Hath there beene any publike testimony of acknowledgement of the great sinne of the Land in worshiping Christ after the manner of Antichrist and