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A96886	The churches thank-offering to God her King, and the Parliament, for rich and ancient mercies; her yeares of captivity; her first yeare of iubile; that is, for the marvelous deliverances wrought with God the first wonderfull yeare (since the yeare 88) beginning at September 1640. and ending the ninth of the same moneth following: in all which time, the Lord appeared for his church, as in the dayes of old, out of the middest of the bush, so the church burn'd with fire, and was not consumed. In the preface, the thank-offering is vindicated, and set free, from all the cavills and charges against it; where also it is cleared to be, as every mans duty, so every mans purpose, to offer willingly now, who doth not make full proofe, that he falls short of pagan, papist or atheist; and is wilfully resolved to walk crosse to the most supreme law, the highest reason, and the unquestionable will of God.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1642 (1642)	Wing W3484; Thomason E122_1; ESTC R18182	151,993	158

face for griefe of heart because she saw it's visage marred spit upon vilified trampled on more then any Day Oh it joyed her heart That you who next to God maintaine her spirits and life you accounted her Lords day honourable that was because you honoured the Lord of the Day And indeed how could you not For He is worthy and you looke to be honoured The Church will looke upon this mercy againe and againe and reckon the restoring to her the Sabbath among the chiefest and choisest of your good deeds which by Gods good hand upon you you have done Had the Adversary taken away the Sabbath as he had almost done tantum non he h●d taken away all The Word the Sacraments God and all All goeth when the Sabbaths are gone as you may see in our sister Churches What is left them now Lamentation and Mourning and Woe What heare they in their Temples now Howlings instead of Songs What are their Townes and Cities now Ruined heapes a Golgotha a place of dead Mens sculls or to speake as Salvian doth in the like Desolation d Omnis Civita●●ustum c. Sal. l. 7 210. Their Townes are like our new Church-yards scarce large enough to bury in The Lord hath stretched out upon the Land the like of confusion and stones of emptinesse They shall call the Nobles thereof to the Kingdome but none shall be there And all her Princes shall be nothing e Isa 34. 11 12. Wherefore hath the Wrath of the Lord burnt out against that people so fiercely Surely because the Land had greatly provoked the Lord of the same Where great Desolations are there are great provocations so we may conclude though Gods Judgements are as the great deepe And this we may say more That our English Commanders noted this still and it was to be noted with all observation That still on the Lords Day the Enemy got much ground And that which opened the floud-gate to all their misery fell out thrice upon the Sabbath Day The Lord pointing as with the finger to that sinne The prophanation of the Lords Day as to the Source whence all their Evills have issued I will take leave now for I must not passe over this lightly to note two things 1. The Priests Villany 2. Your Piety That they may remember and be confounded because of their shame And that you may goe on and doe exploits † 1. The Priests Villany Is not that too heavy a word No It is the word of the Lord. The Priests heart hath wrought iniquity to practise Hypocrysie and to utter errour against the Lord to make empty the soule of the hungry and to cause the drink of the thirsty to faile h Esa 3● 6. This is villany and they have spoken it before the Lord in His house where He hath said He will be sanctified and they have compelled others to speake it too even to utter errour against the Lord there in His House where they stand charged to deale faithfully To utter Truth To speake as the oracles of God They have committed villany in Israel a greater villany than they committed whom the King of Babel roasted in the fire i Ier. 29. 2● They have not only committed Adultery vvith stocks and stones k but they have spoken lying words in Gods Name I KNOW AND AM A WITNESSE saith the Lord l Ier. 29. 23 Many villanies have been committed in Israel but none like this which the Priests have committed The giving liberty to prophane the Lords Day BY A LAW Nay a forcing thereunto Every Word of God shall meet with some who will turne head against it looke how many kinds of Precepts there are so many adversaries there are m Omnis sermo divinus habit am●los suos quo● genera praeceptorum sunt ●●t adversarior●● Salv. ad Ecc. Cath. l. 4. p 486. But let the superstitious Papists turne head against the second WORD Let the Licentiously Prophane oppose the fourth WORD Let the Athyst the Pagan who knowes not God blot out the first and the third WORD Take away all but let not the Priests doe it let not them oppose so holy so just so reasonable a command They know the Lord They minister before him But they did it even the Priests And for a Priest to turne this good Word out of Gods house and the Ministers after it if they would not speake errour against the Lord for him to blot out the Hard writing there this was villany sure never the like committed in Israel it exceeded the boldnesse of that Pagan King n Dan. 5. The Time must be enquired into When did the Priests commit this wickednesse Then At that time when the Lord called to mourning they called to Dancing * Nigra est incendio civitas in vult●● fest●vit●●● usurpa● Lugent cu●cta tu latus et Sal. de gub l. 5. p. p. 22● To allude to that place Then the Priests proclaymed a liberty for sports on the Lords Day when the Lord proclaimed a Liberty in the Neighbours Church to the Sword to the Pestilence to the Famine m Ier. ●4 17. Salvian would expresse this a great deale better Then they consulted all this against the LORDS DAY when they saw Cities wasted and two Kings slaine if not in battell yet they were slaine The Priest did just like Ahaz they saw as hee a miserable destruction before their eyes yet they brought a patterne of that abomination which caused that desolation and as Vriah did set it up here by a Law * 2 King 16. The time must be noted and that our spirits may be raised high in praise the exceeding 2 Chro. 28. patience of a God must be noted also we did patterne after them vve vvere like them nay we exceeded in that prophanation yet the Lord did not patterne us He did not make us like them in desolations O exceeding patience that The patience of a God Truly when the Church heard this she was perswaded in her heart That the Lord would strip her people naked set them as in the day they were borne make them as a Wildernesse like a dry Land and slay them with thirst n Hos 2 3. Nay her sad thoughts rose higher she verily thought that the Lord would put a Cup of deadly wine into her peoples hand a Cup of pure wrath That is she thought her Lord would not have mercy upon her children And that is a Cup of deadly Wine ●ndeed of pure vvrath wherein there is no mixture of Mercy A people may be stript naked c. and yet there may be mercy in all that Truly the Church thought thus now the Lord will not have mercy He will turne His backe upon her people now for He beheld abominations in His House which His soule hateth and His Day was prophaned by a Law But see now That we may set our hope and our hearts upon the Lord and set-up a pillar an everlasting Monument

breath of her nostrills and the life of her soule She doth professe unto you in the presence of her God that she hath but one meanes in her absence from Him whereby to seeke His face To know His mind concerning her and her conversation here below But one means to carry up all her wants and to bring down all her blessings for she accounts nothing a blessing which is not gained by Prayer and shee writes upon every thing she receives ASKT OF GOD But one meanes to hide her selfe in the clifts of the rock till the indignation be over For when the Lord sh●ll shut the Heaven and open His Armory against the earth a Ier. 50 25. bringing forth all the weapons of His indignation Then hath she but one meanes one shift but as one said its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a greate one and a sure one HE ARE THOV IN HEAVEN THY DWELLING PLACE AND FORGIVE AND DOE This is all her refuge SVPPLICATIONS TO HER GOD. The Church hath much to say at this point But she humbly thankes you that you did not thinke it fit to bind her strictly in her Publike Assemblies to formes of others making Alas they cannot reach her wants nor the boosome of her God The heart knowes its own bitternesse and can best indite her own sorrowes and make them known unto her God But yet the Church will not prescribe heere only she hopes you vvill consider how shee hath been dealt with very lately when a stout Prelate was so daring as to prescribe her a prayer and then cheate the world with her Name The Churches Prayer when indeed it was Lincolns Prayer so the prayers have been all this Time some private mens devotions and then called the Prayers of the Church But had this beene all she had held her peace Behold how her Adversary like an imperious WHO RISH WOMAN hath dealt with her these l●st yeares which surely her Lord will take as a FORCING His QVEENE before His Face It is notoriously known that the Adversary hath by his prescribed formes comp●●led her to blaspheme the Name of her God and her own Name to curse her best friends and to bl●sse her worst enemies In consideration of the premises she conceives great hope that if you allow not her children to choose their speakers yet to allow of your choise such an one who is sincerely honest understands their case the weight of his office and is sufficient to be their mouth to their LORD and to make knowne His meaning to them The Church is confident that if you shall well consider her Negotiations you will find them weigh more upon the ballance then those concerning the greatest Prince in the world and yet she will take the grant of this her request as a speciall favour and grace from you though not only a Prince but inferiour persons will challenge so much as their proper Right But she referres her suites to the Closet she is now giving in the tribute of thankes and praise and she blesseth God and thankes you with all her heart for all the labour of Love worke of Faith Patience of Hope towards her Sonnes and Daughters that you have brought them so farre even HITHERTO she sets a marke upon it for it requires speciall observation SECT III. The ninth of September a notable Day to be written and to be named both written because on that Day an unrighteous Decree To establish a Service odious to God one of their own being Judge was made Null and of none effect Named as in Dayes of old forthe same Reason HEre I have concluded the yeare almost in the middest of a Month I could not else have given up the full tale of wonders It was necessary I should goe to the ninth of that Moneth so farre that it might the more fully appeare how farre the Lord hath brought His Church working wonderfully for His people That Day the Worthies adjourned their Court for five weekes that so they might look over their private interests and then returne againe well refreshed for the Common-weale and Gods worke vvhich that Day late at evening had a notable close The Church seemes to heare a voyce now as one of her sonnes once did comming to her eares with a double charge Sonne of man write the name of the Day even of THIS SAME DAY * Ezek. 24. ● And the spirit suggests unto her the same Reason in effect which He did to the Prophet for so doing She remembreth well some there were who that same Day vvould have established the Liturgi● as now it is with all it's faults which all indifferent men doe find there not a few and acknowledge it to b● a Service which God never commanded neither ever ca●e it into His Heart He that pleads so hard for the Liturgy as now it is for that must be remembred still the continuance and est●blishment of it in the Church even the same man t●ls us it is a S●RVICE ODIOVS TO HEAVEN Doth he so Truly I th●nke so but j●dge you No that you w●ll not you will say for you are not a judge let the learned give judgement in these matters and let my spirit be subj●ct thereunto I confesse this is a point of w●sdome and of modesty both But I take judgement here in a vulgar construction and so we may judge for the eare can try words as the Mouth can taste Meat * Iob 12. 11. I will then give you out his wor●s by tale for we find a pretty parcell of them together Thus he saith first GOD WILL HAVE NO WORSHIP OF OUR D. Hals Com. l. 2 p. 138. DEVISING Then God will not allow of all our Liturgy for sure there is something of mans devising therein as no man vvill deny that is not all fore-head and dares deny that Snow is white or fire will burne 2. WE MAY ONLY DOE WHAT HE BIDS US Then we must worship the Father in SPIRIT and in TRVTH for the FATHER SEEKETH such to worship HIM 3. NOT BID WHAT HE COMMANDS NOT. Ioh 4. 23. Then the Curate must not bid Saints dayes to be kept holy for God commands them not He commands His Day to be kept holy which the bold Priest hath count●rmanded and such dayes vvhich are to the Church now as dayes of PVRIM vvere to the Church of old Dayes turned unto them from sorrow to joy and from mourning into a good Day b Est 9. ●● So also dayes of Atonement Fasting Dayes called also Sabbath Dayes 2. The Bishop must not bid his Curate reade all the Liturgy for then he will reade Arch-Angels which he ought not to doe for God commands him not to reade a lye we never heard or read of that word plurall but in the Liturgie 4 NEVER DID ANY TRUE PIETY ARISE OUT OF THE CORRUPT PUDDLE OF MANS BRAINE We believe it and withall that all is not true Piety that is contained in the Liturgy for the worst part of it

those blessings to blesse did belong to the children of the free-women the Church and her free-borne can blesse and they onely but yet though these were appointed by Moses to blesse yet there is not one blessing expressed and that is very notable by the way For by such silence Moses would have Gods people expect great Mr Ans blessings such as cannot be expressed by the tongues of Men or Angels but yet this good people must looke for those blessings by another that is Christ For the Curses these are mentioned not the people who must curse as if Moses were loath to name them for such a misery But the curse not causlesse must come e Pro. 26. 2. The point and comfort is which required clearing notwithstanding the haste for I would be very short though in such a businesse I cannot well frame to it the viols of the Saints so full of prayers and blessings are all powred out upon your heads and the Lord smels a savour of rest and peace from these odours for such they are being presented by the hands and through the Mediation of His Beloved Sonne CHRIST JESUS The Nations will rush now as the noyse of many waters There will be a shaking in the Earth much strife and contention there Who shall have the Day and overcome who shall returne ashamed from the battle with their hands upon their heads as Mourners A foolish question this I might as well aske what will prevaile most with God PRAYERS or CVRSES Who shall treade downe most the feet of the proud and lofty ones whom God resisteth and hath now cast out of their places or the feet of the poore and steps of the needy whom the Lord guides with His eye yet I determine not It sufficeth me and you too I beleeve that all the prayers in the world are for you all the blessings of all that can blesse there are upon you as assured yours as if they were pronounced by the very mouth of Christ and all the curses in the booke of God are upon your enemies and shall over-take them in due time if hearty Repentance prevent not So much touching the first great thing so prevailing in the world PRAYER You will be remembred of it again anon For as with Esther f Est 4. 16. you have commanded it so with her you will pray likewise THANKS follow and that is the subject of this Treatise a gaining commodity also freely laid out and the more freely so the more they receive-in the fuller are the returns and In-comes every houre These you have here from a most considerable person for I take a single word The CHURCH who can prise mercies speake them forth with rejoycing can skill in giving thanks for the time matter and manner and order in the same excellently well Thankes You may say That is a poore Returne No A rich Returne considering who offers them The Church and from her They never goe alone her hand goes with them she workes for you never was there a greater a better a more hopefull cause to set all on worke and her heart also she prayeth for you too she cryeth in the cares of her God night and day though you heare her not for so you reade of Moses he cryed * Exod. 14. 15. and yet there was not a syllable of a word heard Some doubts are to be cleared here the Method also which is easily done Another worke there is not so easie the answering some grave questions about the THANK-OFFERING Church-men so in name question it very much set themselves against it pleade rather not for a return of curses we hope but mightily set against a returne of thankes here they have indignation also saying to what purpose is this waste And some are so pinched gnawing their tongues that they know not what to say only they mutter that the LAW is against a Thank-offering too The Lord knowes how willingly I would have stepped over these blocks but He knows so I could not doe and not offend the Church and the Reader both so great is the offence in the way which by His strength I shall remove from before his eyes who is not resolved to shut them that he may stumble with lesse excuse and more impudence in a Sun-shine But I have so much wit and manners both to reserve this for him that hath leasure disposition and reason to hearken to it anon It will be sufficient for you if you take leasure for two things whatsoever the imployment is they must take place Consideration and Prayer the one will take up some length in your thoughts not more then may be thought necessary in this Paper the other may be lengthned also in your closet it shall be very short here Consider for it is also HIGGAION-SELAH g Psa 9. 16. Rem meditand●● summè Jun. A thing much to be considered on That there hath beene no undertaking no Designe of yours all this time which God hath not prospered and no designe of the Adversary which God hath not cursed You doe consider this and is it not wonderfull That you should goe over such Mountaines all along through a Sea so full of straits and and rockes on every hand and yet not dash the foot No for you consider this with it That you have managed the cause of Christ all this while you have carried all things your Counsels and Consultations and Actions levell to that Marke the advancing that STANDARD call it what you will that GLORY Your Adversaries have done the cleane contrary Not any one ACT hath passed through your hands all this long Session not any one Vote from your mouth that hath sadded those hearts which should not bee sadded c Eze. 13. 22. The Church hath high thoughts of this thus shee thinkes Nay shee knowes That never was there such a PRICE put into mens hands nor more wisely managed then by you for yee have set your hearts to it d Pro. 17. 16. You naturally a Phil. 2. 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cared for the CHURCHES state as Sons yee served with her in the GOSPELL The Church wonders not at all this for 1. You naturally cared for her therefore you worke and are not weary Love feeles no more burrhen then the Woman did taking the Childe into her Armes being the true Mother b Exo. 2. 9. Shee did it heartily 2. Heere wee can discerne GODS hand with you Wee must say as the Heathen did GOD IS c Gen 21. 22. WITH YOU IN ALL THAT YOU DOE GODS hand hath beene with your KING therefore hath His Hand beene so gracious to you and his heart is still in the same Hand not as Iron and Brasse and yet all is one to an Almighty Hand but as waters there d Prov. 21. 1. easily bent and called forth TO HIS FOOT e Isa 4. 1. 2. Vt aqua in areolâ quocunque dux ris sequitur Hier ep 16.

great wrath The Enemy comes in like a flood with open mouth to devoure all REMEMBER the Lord Who is GREAT His Spirit will set up a Standard against them r Esa 59. 19. When the sonnes of Belial do as their Name imports breake bands and cast away coards then the Lord will laugh ſ Psal 2. And then said Luther well he would not cry like a child he would be merry as a Man and sing for joy of heart the 46. Psalm For he remembred the Lord WHO IS GREAT It follows and TERRIBLE To his Adversaries fury to them t Isa 59. 18. and He has them under His feete already like unto fine brasse u Rev. 2. 15. and He can stampe them to pouder but He is patient He will endure a little while their wrigling sooner then you can a worme under yours Nay you have had assurance ever since the dayes of Joshua x Josh 10. 25. That you shall set your feete upon them too It seemes the Lord is fulfilling this good word to you now nay doubtlesse He hath fulfilled it even now He hath done as He promised to His worme Jacob He hath taken you a company of wormes yee are no better worme-like men He hath given you armes of steele and feete like brasse and you have threshed the Mountaines like straw and have come upon the Princes as upon Morter and as the Potter treadeth clay y Isa 41. 15 25. Thus the Lord hath done Who is GREAT and TERRIBLE even now in all the peoples sight Remember Him you cannot be afraid And remember where you are And yet as one saith a Nihil interest ubi sitis in saeculo qui extra saeculum estis Tert. ad Martyres chap. ● no matter where you are in the world who have your thoughts above the world and managing the great things of Christ there But yet to tell you what you know and what your security is you are in Gods hand b Deut 33 3. Now put all together and consider on it God He is GREAT and TERRIBLE He is your God you are His by covenant you are in His hand your enemies under His feete nay under your foote The Result from hence is A Glorious Dependance upon this Lord Who is Great yea a TRUST FOR EVER in Him Who is EVERLASTING STRENGTH c Isa 26. 4. and that is a sure ground for EVERLASTING CONFIDENCE That though the earth should shatter to peeces and the mountaines be taken off from their everlasting foundations yet God is good to Israel you shall not be greatly moved your head may ake but you may repose it in the Lap of your EVERLASTING FATHER certainly He will sustaine you you may lay your selves downe in peace He will make you dwell in safety The enemy shall not be able to come neare you to doe you hurt no nor to sad your spirits who in all this time have not spoken one word whereby to sad the heart of the Righteous Yee must the promise is so d Isa 65. 13 14. reioyce when the Adversary shall be ashamed yee must sing for ioy of heart when your enemies must howle for vexation of spirit your Name must be a blessing theirs a curse This is glorious matter for faith to worke upon it will make you pray in the Holy Ghost You need not be entreated to take leisure for that it is the very breath of faith and it hinders nothing at all but sets forward businesses exceedingly it makes them glide-on I give my selfe to prayer said David e Ps 109. 4. when he was in the very case you are in f ver 2 3. He made prayer his worke what ever he was doing and so his worke slided-on he had an easie passe through all hee could leape over this wall and that mountaine was a plaine before him and his enemies were given into his hands for he gave himselfe to prayer What ever we omit we must not omit prayer It commands your Marke that betwixt the Kings Question to Nehemiah and his Answer there is a prayer his Answer was as ready as the Question was but he would pray first q Neh. 2. 4. A hint only is enough to wise men Your prayer shall be short you may lengthen it in your closset pray as Nehemiah did he beleeved as you doe and you have done as he did and you have as many enemies as he had and so envious against you They would make you afraid too they would weaken your hand from the work that it be not done pray now THEREFORE O GOD STRENG THEN OUR Ne. 6. 9. HAND AND REMEMBER US O OUR GOD FOR GOOD Now there is a voice gon up that never returnes in vaine and cryes aloud in the eares of the Lord like the sound of many waters saying AMEN Mercy and Truth be with you AMEN And the God 2 Sam. 15. 20. of both these give you favour in the eyes of the Man Amen wipe not out the good deeds that you have done for the Ne. 13. 14 22. house of your God and for the Offices thereof AND SPARE YOU ACCORDING TO THE GREATNESSE OF HIS MERCY AMEN AMEN The PREFACE clearing the way through this Treatise and the READERs understanding touching the proceedings in Parliament the clearnesse of the Lawes and Iustice therein his Knowledge also of the times and cleare WILL of GOD and what Israel ought to do notwithstanding the contradictions of sinners and crosse wils of Malignant Men. Reader IVnderstand well the use and Law of a Preface it should containe no more but what could not be put into the booke that is observed here And yet it will be very large and that I could not helpe I have an hundred sheets tending much the same way this Treatise goes If a Providence should call forth all or any part of it I might trouble thee with an Epistle but never more with a Preface How willingly I would have forborne it here I know and God knows but then I strongly conceived I had left thee in the darke but now I shall shew thee the way in much clearenesse if thou wilt not blind-fold thy selfe and render thee in the close a Thankefull man This is the tendency and purpose of all this And so that thou mayest reade with profit understanding what thou readest and then shew thy selfe an understanding man I shall endeavour to cleare the way before thee and give thee cleare resolution to the matters in debate some more easie and quickly resolved other some more hard and admitting more contention 1. Touching the Person who offers Thankes that is easily cleared 2. Then the Thank-offering there will be the knots for Collegiate men the Eyes of the Land these are set against it and some say the Law also we must examine their reasons and cleare the proceedings against these men and that will take up some time 3. In the last place the Method the clearing of that is very

contention wee have but one LEADER and COMMANDER And so I have done with the Divines whom I honour very much and heartily so be they are Divine magnifying their office exalting the Scepter of the Lord Iesus Christ● these not so but the contrary the Lord lay it not to their charge He will not if in truth of heart they can charge and shame themselves with it I should now come to the Lawyers the chiefest of them for they have made the THANK-OFFERING to be questioned very much in point of Law but they are run away turning their backs upon the Law yes the supreame Law and the highest reason Thankes be to God we have the Law on our side and in more strength energie and virtue now these Lawyers be gone And by helpe of God and the fore-mentioned I shall cleare the THANK-OFFERING and the Readers understanding touching the Cavils about it and render him also in the close a very thankfull man that is he shall give us his heart and his purse too if need require his life also if Law or Reason can perswade with him or the WILL of GOD all this shall be cleared in order All appeale to the Law I shall appeale thither too and yet not to the Law of Nature which teacheth a poore worme to Earth-it-selfe against the foot of pride nor to the Law of Nations no nor to the Lawes and Constitutions of this Kingdome whereby we have a priviledge beyond the Christians in Primitive times living under those Emperours whose Constitutions I had rather call them so then Lawes were flat against the Christians and their Religion and that is very considerable now But all this I leave to the good Lawyer I meane the honest man and truly he hath cleared the case soundly and well so much I knew and I doe professe my selfe No Lawyer you will say Yes but I am for I understand the Lavv as the Proverbe is Every man is a foole or a Physition he understands something touching the state of his bodie what is good or hurtfull for him so he is a simple man that knowes not so much Law and I presume no more then as may fit him for a civill life in his Societie or Neighbourhood But that I may keepe within my owne bounds and be sure to goe right I will aske and returne such an answer as shall be to the mind and heart of every honest man Q. What is the Lavv we have heard much of the common Law we have seene and felt something from the Civill-lavv but what is the SVPREAME LAW A. The answer is this and you shall heare no other if you shall ask till Doom● Daie THAT THE SVPREAM AND SOVERAIGN LAW IS THE SAFETY OF THE PEOPLE b Suprema lex salus populi We argue Then the Nobles all we need no other word they all are so so their Votes for Christ and actions to promote His glory have innobled them have proceeded according to LAVV the SUPREAME Law For I aske and let malice answer Did ever any before them sweat as they have done Did ever any worke so effectually for the safety of their Nations We thought such fools we were That safety it selfe c Salus ipsa as the simple Proverbe is could not have saved the Nation We said Our hope is perished the house of Esau shall be a fire and the house of Iacob as stubble Behold by their noble indeavours and contrivements they have so vvrought vvith God this Day That it is otherwise they have snatched us as brands out of the burning and now we may say as we reade The house of Iacob shall be a fire and the house of Ioseph a flame and the house of Esau for stubble d Obad. 18. And have they not Lavv for this No Lavv for keeping downe the fire that vvild-fire from kindling upon our Bodies our Houses our Townes our Cities our Nation our three Kingdomes No Law for saving all these from utter ruine and Destruction Doubtlesse they have Lavv on their side which will justifie them and their actions The Supreame lavv It cannot be clearer but it is as cleare as the Sunne that glorious Creature shining in it's strength Nay I must goe higher and quite stop the mouth of malice it selfe Did ever any contend so heartily worke so effectually with one lip and one shoulder as these Nobles have wrought for the SVPREAME safety of the people I meane the SALVATION of our SOVLES that is Supreme a Salvation indeed If we will be fullen and will not answer here as men hating to be Reformed I can tell who will answer with indignation and wrath enough the Prelates will those that labour not in the Word and Doctrine those I meane All that Antichristian Tribe the Divell and all his servants The Votes and actions of the Nobles this way have tormented the Divell and his Angels A sure evidence That the Nobles have done right They have wrought for the safety o● our bodies and soules hoth that 's a Salvation indeed It were ●ol●y to aske now and blasphemy to doubt whether they had not a Law a Supreame Law for all this And so I would leave the Law but it will not be left and come to Reason so to argue the case What is the best Reason The Answer is and we have no other That is the chiefe the prime the principall the highest REASON WHICH MAKES FOR RELIGION e Summa Ratio quae pro Religione fa●●● that it is come then let us argue the case like reasonable men keeping close to our Reason yet honouring the Law of the Land just and good and the good Lawyer for he is a good man and be knowes himselfe to be so or the contrary no man in the world more clearely then he because though he could tread the Law under his foot as the bad Lawyer hath done yet he cannot put-out the light which he hath set up in his understanding All call out law law as if all their helpe were in God and the law It is indeed but if wee forsake right Reason and yet expect helpe from God and the Law we shall faile of our expectation neither God nor the law will yeeld us any helpe for God is holy and the law is just Consider then what partie for there be two parties in the world deviding all betwixt them and carrying all before them so they have done ever since the world was and so they will doe while the world stands Which of the two doe act according to right Reason that we cal'd the highest Reason Who of them doe make it their worke to doe Iustice and Iudgement But I will come to the highest step which of them doe labour to advance Religion to ●et up the Standard of Iesus Christ He is blind and will not see who sees not his answer hereunto Why then they have God on their side and the law on their side I might say Gospell too for there comes

they vvould have So he said What were these gods Stocks and Stones some of them Divels few did him a little good at somtime in conceit the most a great deal of hurt but he offered so liberally to all because he would please all that some might do him good others might doe him no hurt d Aust de civit l. 8 13. Plac●ndi sunt Dij mali ne laed●nt bo●●i invocandi ut profi●● Enquire now and so thou shalt understand His Will the better VVhat is thy God As we reade The God That made the Heaven and the Earth The Father of the Lord Jesus Christ the God before whom thou dost walk b Gen 49. 25. the God Who hath fed thee all thy life long unto this Day The God Almighty Who hath blessed us with the blessings of Heaven above blessings * Gen. 4. 15. of the deep that lieth under blessings of the brest and of the womb But when I have said God I have said all Mercy goodnesse wisdome power riches all only this was not said That He so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Sonne c. What wilt thou do now for this God and His Christ Thou wilt understand what His will is first Thou dost well So thou shalt His will shall be cleared unto you as the Sunne beame This is His will even thy Sanctification c 1 Thes 4. 3. His will the very Law of His will but His will is His Law an holy Law and His will revealed is our Law that wee should sanctifie His Name a●d His Day heare His word a●d doe it that is His will walke as people in Covenant with Him as children of the light honestly d Rom. 13. 13. as in the Day soberly righteously and godly in this present world e Tit. 2. 12. not in rioting and drunkennesse not in strife and envying not as Arabians Sabeans and Chaldeans Papists and Atheists men without God in the world robbing spoyling pillaging not as the fishes in the Sea where the greater devoure the lesser a Hab. 1. 14. not as Devils b 1 Tim. 2. 12. slandring each other not as his eldest sonnes children of Beliall breaking yoakes and casting away bands and girdles under a pretence of being freed from fetters not so for this is after the lust of the Divell most contrary to the will of God which is as was said Holy just and good It is impossible we should be ignorant of it Why then Thou knowest what the will of thy God is and Thou seest Who steere their course thereafter by the help● of God and the Law You see who doe contend for the Faith for Religion for th● Gospell call it what you will It is that whereto the Prophets and Apostles have sealed and so transmitted it to the generations following and from them it came streaming downe unto us in the blood of the Martyrs under the shadow whereof this Church hath enjoyed her Sabbaths rest and peace these foure-score yeares and upward So long have we set in peace under this cove●ing For this the Nobles have contended and are resolved to resist the opposers of it unto blood And is it not Gods will they should so doe Yes more cleared unto them then if it could have bin written with the Sunne beame And is it not their bounden duty so to doe No question to be made of that when it is clearly the will of God But I would rather their children sh●uld answer here Certainly ha● these Nobles failed at this point had they not given out their Male their strength in the managing thi● great businesse had they not contended here then had their Descendents put up a complaint against them doubled the same as we reade Bloody Fathers have ye bin to Exod. 4. 25. us bloody Fathers ye are Yee contended not for Religion ye neglected that ye were carelesse thereof and so of the good estate of future times unnto which ye knew ye must transmit and commend-over us your dearest pledges bloody Fathers ye are so they had complained Blessed be God they knew the will of their Lord and their bounden dutie and have done thereafter they have contended for this Faith and they will contend what is their life to them o● what regard to a new b●rne son If ICHABOD where is the glory that is gone They will contend for the Glory they will keepe it they are resolved so so to contend even as for life Ob. What contend against their King Is that the will of God An. A sillie Objection I had almost said wicked They contend for the King for the maintaining his Crowne Peace and Dignitie They contend for the maintenance of Religion and that is like the maintaining a Ship in a Tempest a sillie will●ull man and let him perish if he be not a sleepe that will not put forth his hand to maintaine the Ship now in distresse of weather if that lives he lives if that drowns be drownes Truly I have said all I can saie They that contend to maintaine Religion doe as those who contend to save their ship save that and that will save them The Nobles doe contend to maintaine Religion that ship and in so doing they contend for their King his life and peace for his everlasting Crown for the peace and honour of his people for the safetie of his Kingdomes that they may be the head and not the tail● the most honourable of Kingdomes All this they doe contend for for they contend for Religion that ship which carries three Kingdomes in it at once peace safetie lives liberties and all And is it not the will of God they should so contend It were folly to answer for it is blasphemie to doubt Then what wilt thou doe to helpe them and their cause against the Mightie It is the greatest the most hopefull cause the best the plainest and clearest as cleare as the Sunne beame the most legible cause that ever was heard or read of in the world What wilt thou doe now to rescue thy King from out of the hands of Murtherers The Land from out of the hands of spoylers The Laws of God and man from sons of Belial who would make all void What wilt th●u doe to helpe the Lord against these Nimrods mightie hu●ters What wilt thou doe I say to helpe God and the cause of Christ Neither of them both do need thee He Whose cause it is can manage it without thee But so He is pleased to honour His Servants by calling them forth to helpe Him against the mighty And what wilt thou doe for H●m and His cause Who was made a curse for thee gave His blood for thee what wilt thou doe for Him It is His will and command both that thou shouldest give in thy helpe the Male of thy flocke thy strength and chiefe of thy substance to Him and thou hast heard what an Heathen will doe in such a case then thou wilt

neare as can be in this world That her Lord and Christ may be if not All in All yet above all Beloveds the chiefest of ten thousand Why then all those things She thought against her were for her promoting her good very much Therefore Shee doth record that time and speaks of it with rejoycing finding by many good experiences That there is no Condition how uncomfortable soever but what is ordered according to Righteousnesse and faithfulnesse This ce●tains much we will then proceed in it SECT II. As the Righteous now doe so have all done before them They have recorded Dayes of Trouble for that was a meanes to settle them the faster on their Rocke and have been thankefull for their Hell here for that made them looke for Heaven where it is THe Church must remember the former yeares when they called her Marah because the Almighty had dealt very bitterly with her d Ruth 1. 20. She cannot passe-over that Time as if a Time let forth like water to waste Plowing and harrowing time is as seasonable for the Church as it is for the fallow-ground and she doth record that time thankfully and with an heart full of Praises for the deeper the furrowes are and the longer the fuller the Sheaves will bee at the Harvest Chrysostomes words are remarkably notable Evermore in your 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys Hom. 10. Col. 3. See ●hil 4. 6. prayers give thankes for knowne and unknowne mercies for mercies which appeare to you so to be and such which appeare not for mercies you received with a willing mind and for those which God did for you against your will be exceeding thankfull for them For your good things your comforts your refreshments your strange Deliverances your rich mercies yea and for your lucida intervalla for your well nights and your good daies Yes who would not be thankfull for all this All are not nay the fewest of many But the Father hath not rais'd up his children to the height of thankfulnesse yet You must be thankfull for your turbida intervalla sicke dayes and wearisome Nights for your aches and your paines for your troubles in and to the flesh the knotty racking Gout the tormenting Stone the bloudy torturing Strangury the burning Fever In a word you must be thankfull for your Hell here For Hell who can be thankfull for that they that are of another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Humb. 14. 24. spirit Their Hell here made them not to looke for Heaven here vvhich else they had done though they have their Lords expresse word for it In the world yee shall have tribulation in Mee peace e Ioh. 16. 33. Their Hell here made them to lift up their heads and stretch forth their necks * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 8. 19. and to stand as it were on tip-toes so earnestly looking after things which are not seene And this earnest expectation of glory hereafter even to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the Land of the living this assurance of hope caused their very Hell here to seeme a very light affliction and its continuance very short but for a night an houre nay but for a moment a little small moment ● Cor. 4. 17. To conclude Their Hell here made them flee from the vvrath to come and that is hell indeed and the sense thereof raised up their thoughts and endeared Christ unto them the chiefest now of ten thousand O how precious are their thoughts concerning Chr●st A drop of vvrath burnt their flesh and vvas sore upon them though but for a night how are their he●rts enlarged after Christ vvho redeemed their soule out of all adversity and from the vvrath to come I have added a short paraphrase on Chrysostomes vvords he goes o● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ch●y● T●m 6. ●e 〈◊〉 judic and gives us an example I knew a man said h● a very pious Man he vvas vvho prayed thus as vve have heard and the first vvord vvas Thankes and that he first thanked his good God for vvas for his afflictions his Hell here So vve have that vve come for so fitted to this place vvhich is They put afflictions into the Catalogue or Register of Gods mercies and in the first p●●ce Indeed it is no ha●d matter to open the mouth in vvay of Thankefullnesse for the goo● things of this life as vve call them but to be thankefull for the ●vils that is an hard taske but yet the daily vvorke of a true Christian SECT III. The Church recordeth her evill Dayes when Shee saw Affliction HEnce we also may learne our Duty and see our patterne for according thereunto the Church Records and Thankes her Lord for her afflictions her pressures her tribulations her anguish her sorrows She gives thanks for her nights of mourning as wel as for her morning joy for her Aegypt in this life as well as for her Goshen here She thankes her God for her treading downe by the foot of Pride for that made her rise more victoriously for the blood vvas drawne from her because that vvatered her and made her more fruitfull She thankes her God for the Courts of Inquisition though bloudy Courts and all the Purgatory she lookes for because the oppression she felt therein and the violent perverting of Iudgement and Iustice pointed her eyes and set them stedfast towards Him Who is higher then the highest and made her to stay fixe and settle her selfe at that high Throne before vvhich the Judges must be judged and from which there is no appeale She gives thankes for her mockings Eccl. 5. 8. scornings revilings buffetings for all the hard vvords and deeds she heard and felt there O hovv thankefull is shee for all that thereby shee vvas made conformable to Her Lord and Head so Hee was dealt withall O how did She rejoyce at all this though perhaps not at that present all this makes their Crowne the more massy ●●d weighty It added muc● to their consolations which ● 2 Cor. 15 7. are ever ●fter the me●sure and is their sufferings are The Righteous doe conclude thus That after the rate of their sorrowes and sufferings shall their comforts and consolations be And by the measure of their shame and reproach for Christ here shall their Robe o● Glory be cut out hereafter wherewith they shall be vested in H●aven Therefore The Church thanks her God for her weakenesses and many infirmities They made her leane more st●adily upo● her Beloved That strong Arme For her sl●ps and fals too they made her stand ● Thes 1. 10. more strong in her God and in the power of His Might For her feares they pointed her to her rocke that is higher then her above all For her troubles without and her terrours within For now She can admire her Saviour the mighty God of her strength For her anguish of spirit and paines in soule when She travelled with her Christ first and now with her

the fury of the LORD the Rebuke of Thy GOD i Esa 51. 10. Then from that Day ye proceeded against them and their Courts so that the Church may reade her Deliverance now in that vvhich the Lord wrought for her people in dayes of old So the terrible one is brought to naught k Esa 29. and the Scorner is consumed and all that watch for iniquity and they that made a man an offender for a word and laid a snare for him that reproveth in the Gate and turned aside the just for a thing of nought all these are cut-off for where is the fury of the oppressours and the jurisdiction of their Courts Where is it She remembers this with all thankfulnesse and she remembers you in all earnestnesse before the high Throne as was said before for she can reade on Now l Esa 29. 19. the meeke shall encrease their joy in the Lord and the poore among men shall rejoyce in the Holy One of Israël for how you eased the Churches shoulders and cheared her heart when you tooke off those yoakes the two insnaring Oaths and bloudy Courts she and you know very well and she accepts vvith all thankfulnesse but she gives glory to her God ¶ 10. Then from that Day you could trace the footings in the dark the turnings and windings of the crooked Serpent in his crooked pathes Then the Lord made darknesse light before you and crooked things strait Then you had discoveries upon discoveries for what a discovering God have you How easily did He defeate His enemies Their turning of things upside downe He esteemes as the Potters clay for He turned them and their vvorke upside downe as easily as the Maid doth the Dish which she vvipes or the Potter the clay vessell he frames m Esa ●9 16. Vid. Cal. in loc ¶ 11. Then you quenched the SONNES of the COALE and though they sparkled in your face yet they could not kindle notwithstanding the wrestling of the Adversary you held and maintained the staffe of BEAVTY and of BANDS n Zach. 11. and so made firme the Brotherhood betweene Iacob and Israel And it was like the making of twaine one so making peace a Ephes 2. 15. as the causing the envy of EPHRAIM to cease and the cutting-off the Adversaries of IVDAH b Esa 11. Ephraim shall not envy Judah and Judah shall not vex Ephraim but they shall be as one sticke in the hand c Ezek. 37. 19. that so with united force they may fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines I will say no more of it here for it fills a volume But according to this time it shall he said of Jacob and of Israel WHAT HATH GOD WROVGHT Num. 23. ●3 In all this last mentioned the Church turnes to her God renders praise and glory to Him for he only workes wonders She will ascribe all to her God so the Church may doe and yet make all due acknowledgement to man whom the Lord is pleased to honour as an instrument Man stood in the GAP and he shall be called The REPAIRER OF THE BREACH but God made it up even Esa ●8 12. by His owne Right-hand for it was great as the Sea Hee did it who hath taken the wicked in their owne Snare consumed them with their owne breath swallowed them up with their owne lips fallen upon them with their owne tongues bound them fast with their owne cords HIGGAION SELAH d Ps 9. 16. Rem meditandam summè a matter HIGHLY to be considered on Therefore with your good leave the Church ascribes all to her good God Blessing Honour Power Wisdome Thanks all the glory unto Him that sitteth upon the Throne and unto the Lambe for ever and ever And the Church makes account that so yee will doe also yee doe call this yeare and your Court BAAL-PERAZIM for at this time the Lord smote His enemies there and hath broken forth upon them before you as the BREACH of WATERS Therefore ye call this yeare and that place BAAL-PERAZIM e 2 Sam. 5. 20. giving glory to the Lord for HE IS WORTHY ¶ A Transition to the next Section THus I have made as short a collection and given-in as briefe a Catalogue as I could of Gods dealings His wonderfull Administrations His strange dispensations of Wisdome and Providence towards His Church this yeare so full of Grace and Power all these contracted here into as narrow a roome as possibly might be considering how comprehensive some of the Heads were else where I have given them more enlargement but I looke and heartily expect that my paines will be prevented by some others pen that hath more leisure and a larger portion of gifts and abilities for the compleating such a History which so much advanceth the Name of God and the hope of Israel in the time of His distractions The Remembrance of what God hath wrought this former yeare vvill be to the Church in after times and in all her fainting fits as vve reade a Deut. 7. 18. for the consolation is the same and the gr●und thereof the same Thou shalt not be affraid of them T●ou shalt WELL rem●mber what the LORD thy GOD did unto PHARAOH the Pope and unto all his helpers The c Another great Worke you have vvrought in the close of the yeare concerning Gods immediate worship and service which must be recorded in order with reverence to the time when these workes were done I say work●● for it is plurall a comprehensive worke and containes m●ch Thou●h it may suffice very well that the Lord hath registred them and will reward them A Cup of cold water b Mat. 10 4● given to His Church He will thinke upon and reward for that is His manner He will not be in arere with any man much lesse with His faithfull Servants if He seemes to delay the time or to forget it is for your advantage and that he may remember you in the fittest time as in the case of Mordecai A Cup of Water shall be remembred how much more your labour of love patience of hope your workes of Faith such vvorkes vvhich you have done and are written in the records of Heaven and Earth both for they concerne His pleasant Sacrifices vvhich He hath commanded such as were in the dayes of old and as in former years * Mal. 3. 4. But before the Church can record all this she must record with all thankfullness● what you have done for her Land her people there breaking our bands and taking-off our yoaks also and rescuing us from cruell Taske-masters This the Church accepts alwayes in all thankfullnesse But we account this rescuing us and the Law from out of the hand of cruell Lords the chiefest among your many worthy deeds being most taken with outward priviledges and so vve may prosper in the vvorld we care not how our soules prosper such our teaching is and so blind our guides are for

integrity obedience more beautifying then a Crowne performed to Gods command in sincerity This will doe it even all the fore-mentioned And we are convinced hereof by a common light and naturall principles and can conclude therefrom when we are our selves that vve should give out our strength and be most active for the first and last thing in the PROTESTATION To maintaine RELIGION in it's purity and the BROTHER-HOOD in Sincerity for therein are contained the very strength and spirits of the Covenant as hath been said and cannot be to often thought upon But now vvhat blunts the edge of our indeavours and affections this way comes now seriously to be considered on ¶ 3. Our Priests who pretend to lead us mislead us destroying all that the Church doth for our building up to the subverting of our soules and the putting out of a common light by their common and unclean conversation The Church points us to a more excellent way VVE are naturally blind and cannot see farre off * 2 Pet. ● 9. We are not instructed to discretion not so discerning as to approove the things that are excellent much lesse to contend for them And a great cause hereof is we are naturally stupid and blind a spirit of infirmity naturally boweth dovvne but I say a chief cause is without us in our guides and leaders for the most part blind and yet they leade us Many of them preach once in a Yeare perhaps some of them once a Moneth and not a sound word of Doctrine then comes from them but their TEXT Their practise is as bad it corrupts like a canker We observe that and nothing else we see they oversee nothing amongst us with any care or diligence but their Easter-booke and their Tythes all the yeare after That hath been the complaint against Bishops from Dayes of old to this present Day a See Hist of the Councel of Trent 2. p. 252. p. 216. Non magis de pāscen●o grege cogi tant quam sutor de arando Pastors now a dayes the werst part of the think no more of feeding the flock then a Cobler do's of the plough Cal Ins 4. cap. 5. Sect. 1● 13. And if our SEERS doe so we think and are perswaded we may do so too mind Earth and do well enough for Heaven for they do so and yet they know better and see farther then wee can see for they are called Seers The Lord unscale their eyes and unvaile their hearts and deliver His people from these murderers because of whom the Churches soul is wearied b Ier 4. 31. The Lord stirre up your hearts to pitty the Countryes round about yet more For vve are in a sad condition if we saw it Our Teachers are as you heare and the People content to have it so Truly had not the Oppressor touched us in that we make our god outward profits and Priviledges vve should never have complained what violence the Priests had done to the Law of God to the House of God to His vvorship there we regarded not but what violence the Judges did to the Laws of Man that we regarded and then vve could howle Truly we mind not what bands you have broke nor what yoakes c Facile est quicquid in praesenti seculo nocet illud grave illud perniciosum quod in aeternitate iugulabit Salv d● Eccl. Cath. l 2. 410. you have taken off the necks of Ministers Nor that you have advanced the Scepter of the Lord Christ and that worship which is according to the Rule and mind of God these things we mind not No nor that you have troubled the troublers the Achans That you have searched their Tents and found out the Babilonish garments We regard these things no more then Gallio did the beating of Sosthenes for so we are instructed Our Prophets for the most part prophesie to us of wine and strong drinke which pleaseth the sense well and our walking is thereafter we regard only our Oyle and Wine And yet upon sadder thoughts vvhen we think as men we are halfe convinced That this our walking is not right That rivers of Oyle and wine i. e the marrovv and fatnesse and fullnesse of the world is but emptinesse and will ●ot satisfie All this reacheth but to the body no farther and vvill leave us or vve them on this side the grave We can consider sometimes that vve have a Spirit within us vvhich is called the soule a vast large and capacious thing It can measure and graspe all the fore-mentioned all the things in the world and when all is done find but an emptinesse in all We are able to consider That the vvorld cannot satisfie this soule no more then can the East-wind the stomach It is Heaven and the great things there which can satisfie this great capacity vvhich can vviden and stretch forth it selfe like the Heavens The soule may goe from creature to creature as the Bee from flower to flower and be as restlesse still and as unquiet in its motion as is the needle not pointed right and so must be till it be pointed stedfast to Heaven All this vve can consider and upon due consideration approove the things that are excellent But then we behold our Priests and are quite off againe seeing them vvalke like men nay many of them more like be●sts I would rather my tongue were silent in darknes then it should cast a note of contempt upon outward civility These have not so much but as beasts could they phancy happines would place it in fat pastures and sweet waters so do these droves and heards of men This is a mighty snare unto us lead not so much by rule as by example * Persuade● lingua iubet vitae Athan. ad Monachos The Tongue perswades the life commands We consider not what ought to be done but what is done by our betters and thereafter we practise as our leaders do as if what they did vvere well done and as if outvvard things could inwardly satisfie This digression is necessary declaring how our minds stand Now I must shew That the Church is of another mind and so make vvay to the scope ¶ 4. The Church desires to prosper as her soul may prosper Contends for the advancing of Christs Kingdom prefers inward enlargements before outward priviledges ESaues ENOVGH a Gen. 33. 9. Gen. 6. will not content the Church though that be much or a great deale Iacobs ENOVGH b Gen. 33. 9 1● only contents her which inwardly satisfies and fills up the vast capacity of the soule This God alone doth Who is Iacobs ENOVGH for HE is ALL. The Churches Sons and D●ughters looke after those things which may further them in their way Heaven-ward such things as will make their soules to prosper are to their mind and heart They looke after spiritu●ll enlargements they would have their Lord Christ to be highly ●d●anced in the world It would rejoyce them at the heart to see

dost Thou take pleasure in those that hope in THY MERCIE f Ps 1●7 11. for after times Good Lord what a good word is that Thou takest pleasure in those that HOPE in Thy Mercies This word is to Thy people sweeter then the Hony-combe They keepe it as a sweet Morsell under the tongue Sith it pleaseth Thee so well They will hope in thy Mercie that they vvill It is the manner of the Church I will looke unto the Lord I will wait for the God of my Salvation my God will heare me * Mic. 7. 7. It is the Churches confidence Thou wilt heare But if thou seemest to slumber she will waken Thee with Importunity she will give Thee no rest her Sonnes and Daughters vvill be Thy Remembrancers for they remember all that Thou hast done HITHERTO is That they might set their hope in Thee for after times g Ps 78. 7. They doe Lord they doe and they will give Thee no rest touching this thing even that Thou wouldst goe with thy Church yet farther even till the enemy be subdued and come no more into the coast of Israel to destroy there And they will trouble with their importunity those thou hast sent to heale us when we thought 2 Chro. 10. there was no remedy they shall have no rest neither Thou lovest an humble violence till they bring this people yet farther if but to that place where though there will be weeds many yet they shall not keepe downe the good Corne though Bryars there be yet they shall not choake it nay though Scorpions be there yet they shall not sting in Thy holy Mountaine Why Lord God as if this which Thou hast done were but a small thing Thou hast promised to goe with Thy people yet a great way farther for thou hast spoken good and comfortable words touching Thy Servants for a great while to come Thou art beginning we hope and Thou wilt not goe backe with us till thou hast finished we dare not make haste for some faith we have concerning this That Thou wilt hold the sanne in Thy Servants hand till the floore be throughly purged as becommeth a floore on Earth that Thou wilt root out them whom Thy right Hand never planted set Thy face against them who turned Their backes upon Thee walking so contrary That Thou wilt thrust out that which thou never commandedst nor ever came it into Thy heart ô Thy Servants thinke they have very strong arguments when they can plead the case before thee with Thy owne Thou hast said Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted Mat. 15. 13. up we know they have taken root but not by Thee and h●ld possession but not in right from Heaven Wilt not Thou judge them O Lord God and remove them from being Over-seers unto Thee Thou hast broken downe what Thou didst build and pluckt up vvhat thou didst plant k how much more those who h Ier. 45. have built themselves up with their owne hands and planted themselves upon their owne bottome Thou hast said Thou wilt be served in spirit for that service onely reacheth unto Thy bosome and that hath been the manner of all Thy Servants true worshippers Whom I serve in spirit saith Thy Servant i Rom. 1. 9. What hast thou to doe with a feare taught by the precepts of men Thou hast rejected them who did reject the commands of God that they might keepe their owne traditions k Mark 7. 9. Thou art the same jealous God st●ll Thou dost looke into Thy Temple still with the same eye and beholdest the abominations there both persons and services and we hope Thou wilt arise now and avenge Thy-selfe of Thy Adversaries who have made voyd Thy Law and the offering vile who have given Thy children stones for bread and fo● a fish a Serpe●t Surely Thou wilt be avenged of such murderers Thou hast given Thy Servants a sure and gracious word of Promise Aske what you will and i● shall be done l Thy s●●vants 〈…〉 aske nothing but according to Thy m will and it is th●● confidence that Thou hearest them It is Thy will that we 〈◊〉 pray for the peace of Ierusalem Thy will that they should prosper that love it Thy will that the zeale of Thy House should consume Thy Servants and that the abominations there should vex their righteous soules for such are as smoake in Thy nose and a fire which burneth all the Day It is Thy w●ll Lord Thy Servants should pray Ease Thy selfe of Thine A●versaries Thy Servants are assured they doe not aske amisse they aske according to Thy owne will Thy own command for Thine own glory that Thou mayest have a pure and cleane Sacrifice offered unto Thee that Thou mayest be the King in Thy Church and rule by Thine owne Lawes there they aske nothing in or for behalfe of their lusts but against them altogether that Thou wouldest be King in their hearts as well as in their Churches That Thou wouldest take all Thine and our enemies which would not have Thee for their King and sl●y them before their eyes We doe not aske wickedly therefore we will never leave asking we will trouble Thee day and night with importunity and give Thee no rest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iam. 4. 3. till Thou shalt hearken and heare us and grant our request till Thou shalt perfect what Thou hast begun performe the word to Thy Servants wherein Thou hast caused them to trust till Thou shalt bring Thy Church THITHERTO to a safe place where Iacobs face shall waxe pale no more shall be troubled and tossed and vexed no more shall heare Thy Name blasphemed no more see Thy worship defiled no more Thy Day prophaned no more Anti christian Rights base beggarly Rudiments prevailing no more Thy Ministers villanously used no more Thy Servants thrust into corners no more and because of Aegyptian burdens and illegall pressures Thy people howling no more nor any breach betwixt Iudah and Israel any more where Ierusalem shall be a QVIET HABITATION where she shall looke from the top of AMANA from th● top of SHINAR Isa 29. 2● ●o 33. 20. and HERMON from the LYONS DEN from the MOVNTAINS of the LEOPARDS then we shall ●●ng the high praises Cant 4. 8. of our God Then Jacob shall rejoyce and Israel shall be right glad saying HALLELV-IAH Salvation and Glory and Honour and Power unto the Lord our God Amen HALLELV-IAH FINIS