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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	peace_n	spirit_n	unity_n	1,812	5	8.9331	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35088	A declaration of His Highnes the Lord Protector and the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland for a day of solemn fasting and humiliation in the three nations	England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell); Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.	1656 (1656)	Wing C7070; ESTC R25360	2,775	7

A DECLARATION OF HIS HIGHNES The Lord Protector AND THE PARLIAMENT OF THE Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland for a Day of Solemn Fasting and Humiliation in the Three Nations Tuesday the 23th of September 1656. ORdered by the Parliament That this Declaration be forthwith Printed and Published Hen Scobell Clerk of the Parliament London Printed by Henry Hills and John Field Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector 1656. A Declaration of His Highness the Lord Protector and the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland for a day of solemn Fasting and Humiliation in the three Nations SVch have been the out-goings of our God for his people in this our generation that none as men but must say It is Marvellous in our eyes And none as Christians but must cry out It is the Lords doing he hath alwaies been a ready help in time of need and never did his poor servants seek his face in vain neither did he ever lend a deaf ear to the voice of their weepings Who can utter the mighty Acts of the Lord who can shew forth all his praises But Israel doth not know my people doth not consider for in the midst of such unequalled and signal mercies how great hath been and is our ingratitude and unfruitfulness Verily such that nothing can be greater but that inexhausted mercy which hitherto hath not consumed us Should the Lord say unto us as once he did unto Ephraim Ephraim is joined unto Idols let him alone That heavy sentence would be but our desert As insensibility is our crime so it might be too justly made our punishment for who has been melted by mercies who has been broken by judgement Ah sinful Nation a people laden with iniquity a seed of evill doers children that are corrupters they have forsaken the Lord they have provoked the holy one of Israel to anger they are gone away backward why should ye be stricken any more ye will revolt more and more As these sad words do Characterize us as fully as they did those of Juda to whom they were first spoken so if that sad Denuntiation should also be our Doom we could not yet but acknowledge the Lord is righteous in all his wayes and holy in all his works How deeply have we grieved our good God in not mourning as we ought even as one that mourneth for his first-born for that ignorance profaneness and barrenness that is so ripe amongst us even under such rich means of knowledge reformation and grace in not being sensible under nor making a sanctified use of those Rebukes we have of late received But rather charging such miscarriages upon Instruments chiefly if not only when every Individual hath helped to fill up the measure of those sins after which such Iudgements were to follow In not improving mercies so fully as might have been to his glory from whom alone they were received In the sad neglect and want of Activity Resolution and Integrity in Magistrates and others impowred therein for the punishment and suppression of vice and crying Enormities In the abominable Blasphemies vented and spread of late through the apostasie of and the abuse of liberty by many professing Religion In that little love and tenderness which is even amongst professors themselves towards one another who whilst they contend for things disputable lose that which is certain even Charity which is the bond of perfectness and without which they become as founding Brass or a tinckling Cimball To love one another is Christs new Commandement nay the very Badge of his Disciples By this shall all men know that you are my Disciples if you have love one to another in allowing difference in forms more power to divide Christians then Agreements in fundamentals has to unite them one of the dangerousest and fruitfullest seed that hath been sown by the envious one In not being truly sensible that though the Lord in the depths of his wisedome and righteous Iudgement hath for some years last past been overturning several Authorities in these Nations and hath as it were been pouring them out from vessel to vessel He hath yet been pleased ever since his people publickly contended for his Truths still to set up Rulers who have allowed them the free exercise profession of them In that Atheistical and Luke-warm Spirit too commonly amongst us whereby not only the form but power of godliness is reproached and accounted as a vile thing but also too many have fallen from their first love and others Laodicean like esteem themselves rich and to have need of nothing whilest indeed they are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked sins which are the highlier aggravated by being committed in Countreys where the Glorious light of the Gospel shines clearest In being more dissatisfied that we have not obtained all we aymed at then thankfull that we have obtained so much as through mercy we now enjoy we have obtained so much as through mercy we now enjoy All which with other the grievous sins of these three Nations call aloud upon all the good people in them to lye Low in the sight of our offended God and by prayer and humiliation a way which in our deepest distresses we have found both our duty and comfort to tread in to seek to appease his wrath And that he will for his own Names sake be pleased to remove whatever accursed thing there is amongst us and that as he is our God so we may be his people That he will infatuate the Counsels and defeat the Designs of all those that labour to exalt themselves against the interest of his Son and his People That he will be pleased in a most especiall manner to vouchsafe his presence to those who are intrusted with the mannagement of the affaires of these Nations That as he is the mighty Councellor in himself so also that he would appear such experimentally unto them That he would in all things spirit them to the work unto which they are called And give them unitie amongst themselves even the best Unitie That of the Spirit In the best Bond That of Peace That as they are a people abounding in Mercies so they may abound in Returns And that at last through the unwearied goodness of our God these three Nations after such memorable revolutions may be setled upon the sure foundations of Truth Mercy Peace and his people henceforth being delivered from their Enemies may serve him without fear in Holiness and Righteousness before him all the dayes of their 〈…〉 It is therefore declared by his Highness the Lord Protector and the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland That for the end and purposes aforesaid They do appoint Thursday being the thirtieth day of October next for a day of solemn humiliation and seeking the face of God through the Mediation of Christ in all places within England Scotland and Ireland And do therefore hereby incite and encourage all such whose hearts God shall perswade and make sensible of their duty and of the Commonwealths present condition that the day aforesaid be set apart by them for the purposes aforesaid And all persons whatsoever are hereby enjoyned and required to abstain from the works of their ordinary calling and from any recreations or other things against the fitting and due observation of that day And all Faires and Markets are hereby prohibited to be kept upon that day but may be proclaimed to be kept upon the day next ensuing And all Officers of Iustice are hereby required to cause due observation to be had hereof And the Ministers and Preachers of the respective Parishes and Congregations are to take notice hereof For which end It is Ordered That Copies of this Declaration be Printed and sent into the several parts of the three Nations that the same may be published accordingly Tuesday the 23th of September 1656. ORdered by the Parliament That this Declaration be forthwith Printed and Published Hen Scobel Clerk of the Parliament