JERUSALEM: OR A VISION of PEACE. IN A SERMON PREACHED At Margaret's in Westminster, before the Honourable House of COMMONS at their Monthly Fast, Aug. 28. 1644. By CHRISTOPHER TESDALE, Pastor at Husborn Tarrant, in the County of Southampton, and a Member of the Assembly of DIVINES.  ISA. 28. 18. 
O that thou hadst hearkened to my Commandments, than had thy Peace been as a River.  JUDG. 5. 8. 
They chose new gods, than was war in the gates.  
LONDON, Printed by R. Cotes, for Phil. Stephens, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Golden Lion in Paul's Churchyard, 1644.   

Die Mercurii, 28 Augusti, 1644.  
ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, That Mr. Cawley and Mr. Herle, do from this House give thanks to Mr. Tesdale, for the great pains he took in the Sermon he Preached this day, at the entreaty of this House, at St. Margaret's Westminster, (it being the day of public humiliation) and to desire him to Print his Sermon. And it is ordered that none shall presume to Paint his Sermon without Licence under his hand writing.  
H. Elsing Cler. Parl. D. Com.   

I do give licence to Philemon Stephens only to print my Sermon.  
Christopher Tesdale.   

TO THE HONOURABLE THE HOUSE of COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT.  
Worthy Fathers of your Country,  
IT is said of the Ambassadors of the King of Persia, that coming to Athens, the Metropolis of Learning, in the time of the seven Wise men, they desired that each of them would deliver in his sentence, that they might report unto their Master the wisdom of Greece; which accordingly they did, only one of them was silent: which the Ambassadors observing, entreated him also to cast in his symbol with the rest: Tell your Prince (quoth he) there are of the Grecians, that can hold their peace. Verily, it had been my wisdom altogether to have held my Peace in such an Audience, or having spoken once, to have proceeded no further, but as this Sermon, such as it is, came to the birth by your Authority, so your Command now is the Midwifery to bring it forth. The ice thus broken, I shall make a double virtue of this necessity. First, by supplying and making out the failings of mine own unfaithful Memory; and this done, though there were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, in me, yet I hope to find an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, an act of oblivion from you. Secondly, I shall be your remembrancer by restoring the loss of the care to the eye: Words, we say, are wind, and unless they be taken upon the wing, even while they are flying, and brought to the Press, they are gone and lost. You know whose wish it was, Oh that my words were now written, Oh that they were Printed in a Book! as if that were the only way to preserve the memory of things, and to imprint them so deeply in the m●nde, as never to be forgotten. And though I may seem hereby to serve in your cloyed appetites with a Cram his cocta, and obtrude upon you, that which is no way worthy to be laid up in those full fraught promptuaries of better notions, it may be yet of some use to meaner understandings, and by this means too, that wh●ch was delivered in the ears of one Congregation, shall be offered to the publ●ck view of all, who so will, may take and read: and if by any thing herein, I may, for the promoting the great cause in hand, in the least measure, put more life into our Devotions, more speed and quickness into our motions, I have my end. And now, Ever honoured Patriots, that I have been God's remembrancer to you, I will be bold to be your remembrancer to God, that the Lord of Peace himself would give you peace always, and by all means, that he would let you see Jerusalem in prosperity, and peace upon Israel, and in recompense of all your work of Faith, and labour of Love, and Patience of Hope, he would fill you with length of honourable time here, and with a glorious eternity hereafter.  
Yours in the Lord, the meanest and lowest of all my Master's Servants, CHRISTOPHER TESDALE.   

JERUSALEM: OR A VISION of PEACE.  PSAL. 122. 6. 
O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.  
THE inspired Penman of this Psalm, and Song of Degrees, recounting with joy of heart the present flourishing estate of Jerusalem, the City of the great King, and the holy Sanctuary, the place where Gods honour dwelled; and under that the inestimable blessing the people of Israel enjoyed in the pure Ordinances and worship of God, and the due administration of Judgement and Justice in the Land: by way of apostrophe turns him to the godly of those times, and calls in the Auxiliary help of their pious devotions for the happy continuance of this welfare of the Church and people of God. O pray for the peace of Jerusalem.  
Wherein we discover, first, the divine Oratory of the man of God, putting life into his Doctrine.  
Secondly, his zealous affection exciting others to holy duties, O pray.  
Thirdly, his able direction, pointing out:  

1. The right means of obtaining all good blessings, pray.  
2. A choice subject of Prayer, peace.  
3. A choice subject of peace, Jerusalem.   
A word or two of the former of these by way of Introduction, as not altogether begged at the door of the Text; The first is a divine kind of Rhetoric, a powerful delivery, becoming him that speaketh the Oracles of God, which no Academy can teach, no acquaint strains of Arts, or parts, can reach, only a supernatural principle of Grace, true zeal at the heart, heavenly affections, suitable to the life and spirit of the Word, will naturally produce it without straining.  
The people were able to say then, by their own happy experience, that our Saviour Christ taught, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, as one having authority, and not as the Scribes and Pharisees, those dull Doctors of the Law, that were never able to keep Moses chair warm, but cold Sermons made bold sinners. This was it which made the Disciples hearts, whilst Christ opened Moses and the Prophets to them, to burn within them; this made Apollo eloquent in the Scriptures, and Paul mistaken for Heavens Mercury, quite putting down Tertullus the Orator, and the Town-clerk in the Acts, so as it was one of Aust●…ns wishes, to have seen Paulum in ore, to have heard Paul in the Pulpit, the most Seraphical Preacher of the Doctrine of Grace. Multum intererit Davusne loquatur an herus: insomuch as the same Sermon from sundry men's mouths, differs as much as the flight of an Arrow from the arm of a Giant, and the hand of a child: Praise, saith Solomon, is uncomely in the mouth of a Fool, he cannot frame his speech to that Dialect: he hath no skill in the language of Canaan.  
But oh how savoury do words come from graceful lips and a gracious heart, how do they carry with them the very breathe of Gods own mouth? how do they warm the coldest hearts, and quicken the deadest spirits? A man may deliver matter, otherwise beyond exception, yet so without zeal and affection, as to occasion the most inflamed attention, to i'll into tepidity; and the conscientious hearer, to be haunted with woeful distractions, so as such justly fall under that blunt censure of a Countryman; This man may be a profound Scholar, but he wants a good beetle, to cleave out our knotty timber, our green wood must be better blown or it will not burn; Here is our way then, first, to Preach to ourselves, and work up our own affections, as Paul would have Timothy, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, stir up the gift that is in thee, every one get fire first upon his own hearth, and so he shall be better able to kindle it on others; do as Cocks, first rouse ourselves, and then awaken others.  
The next is the zealous affection of the man of God, exciting others to holy duties, O pray, etc. 'tis truly said, that every one is a coal, if he be a living coal, he will inliven others, if a dead coal, he will sully others; It was our Saviour's charge to Peter, thou being converted, etc. and every true Disciple will own this duty as directed to himself; and as one candle lights another, so Grace where it is, will endeavour to kindle Grace where it is not▪ and wheresoever there is life, there is a seminary also of generation, and the more excellent the life is, the more pregnant to propagate its kind. The Holy Ghost came down we know in fiery tongues, the tongue a member made for communication, fire the most active of all elements And indeed if the devil's agents be boutifues and incendiaries, why should not men truly zealous, chiefly ministers be, as Gregory compares, like glowing iron upon the Smith's Anvil, casting their light and heat round about.  
Secondly, this exhorting others, is no trick which many use, a cleanly put off of duties from themselves, to task strangers, as Pharaoh, and ease his own people, and as the Pharisees lay heavy burdens on men's shoulders: Caesar's word was venite, not ●…e, like that of Gideon, look on me and do likewise.  
It is but a dull kind of teaching, to say, and not to do, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, a silent work is the best Rhetoric, and the real is more persuasive than the verbal Sermon.  
Miracles, say some, were the bells that tolled in hearers to the Apostles Sermons, good conversation comes in now in the place of Miracles, these Harbingers must make way and get entertainment for our doctrine, else our bad lives will quite discredit our great learning, as many loathe the good light of a candle for the noisome tallows sake. That was Christ's method just, he did and taught, a Prophet mighty in deed and word: great speakers little doers, are some, mighty talkers mean walkers, exhortations are but dead things, the man's example must put life into his Doctrine, than Boanerges come kindly, when lightning follows thunder, when the word of life, and the life of the word go together. Here the man of God that exhorts others to pray, is first at his devotion, Peace be within thy walls.  
But this by the way, as the first essays of this day's errand. I shall keep myself, God enabling me, within the boundaries of this corollary and doctrinal conclusion, as main subject of my ensuing Discourse, and the full result of the Text.  
The Peace of the Church of God, is a choice blessing much 
Doctr.  to be desired of all the true Members of it: and prayer is a special means to obtain it: O pray.  
We will first examine the thing which is here singled out, as a choice subject of Prayer, and see whether it be a matter indeed worthy so great a motive, O pray for the peace, etc.  
The Proverb saith, All is not gold that glisters; so all is nor Peace that appears so, all pretences of Peace are not Peace▪ there is great cry and little wool, much seeming concord and agreement in the World, that deserves not the name of Peace; such Peace as is not worth the wetting one's finger, or the spending one's breath, much less ones blood to purchase and enjoy it; Honourable Worthies, God hath made you mount up upon eagle's wings, and you are flown too high, to be brought down by any tempting lure; though the bait be pleasant, take heed of the hook, we have been well beat to it; in our greediness let's not be cozened like children with Counters for current money. To find out the right, our way will be to cast by the counterfeits of Peace. And,  
First, there is a Satanical Peace, for the Devils are provident to maintain outward Peace, even where there is no order but all confusion, lest their kingdom should come to an end; so one Bear will kennel with another, and the very Cannibals use not to eat them of their own Country. And O that this Consideration should not shame the most unnatural opposites of this Land, that without all regard of Nature, Nation, or Religion, imbrue their hands in each others blood, that Protestants and Professors, bred up in the principles of the same Religion, & walking all their life long in the House of God as friends, should be teezed on to more deadly feud, then between a Jew and Samaritan then, or a Turk and a Christian at this day: we were sometimes branded for a Kingdom of Devils, and now we are less provident than those infernal Spirits, the foundations will be thrown down, and what hath the righteous done?  
Secondly, there is a Heathenish Peace, when men for their credit sake will not seem contentious.  
Thirdly, there is a Brutish Peace, when people consent together in beastly behaviour, because they know no better life.  
Fourthly, there is Judas Peace, who held agreement with the Apostles, because he bore the bag, and got by Christ's service.  
Fifthly, there is Tyrannical Peace, when men are awed and kept under patience perforce, as the poor Israelites under the Egyptian Taskmasters, and for very fear are constrained to agree.  
Sixthly, there is Herod's Peace, for he and Pilate which were secret foes, yet agreed together against Christ.  
Seventhly, and lastly, there is the Peace of Sampsons' Foxes which were tied together by the tails, but all their heads were lose, and every one looked a several way; you may soon discover here the Peace of our adversaries, the agreement of Atheists and Papists, Priests and Prelates, Irish Rebels, and English Traitors, to ruin Church and Commonwealth, we may read the Pedigree of Popish Peace and Unity, Rome's surest note of the Church, but though Babylon's may, yet Jerusalem's Peace is not found here: and I may say of them, as Samuel of Jesses seven Sons, the Lord hath chosen none of these. Heathens could say, there was no true friendship but among the good; and Christians believe as an article of their Faith, no communion but of Saints; there is no Peace, saith God, to the wicked: as Jehu said to Joram, demanding whether it were Peace, What Peace so long as the whoredoms of thy Mother Jezebel, etc.  
The People say something to the matter, in their description of peace Ps. 144. that our sons may grow up as plants, &c but the chief ingredient is wanting here; and therefore upon the acclamation of the common sort, crying up this outward prosperity as the most desirable happiness in the world; Happy is the people that is in such a case, as the Greek turneth it; they count the people happy that hath these things: the Prophet subjoineth by way of refutation another sentence, opposed to all this outward felicity. Happy rather is the people whose God is Jehovah.  
God then must be one in this holy League, he must be principal, he must think thoughts of mercy towards his people, he must speak peace unto them, he must be reconciled to us through Christ our eternal Peacemaker.  
And then secondly, we must be at Peace with God, Fellow Peace and holiness, saith the Apostle, without holiness there is no peace: Sin separates us, Faith reunites us: O knit my heart unto thee, was David's Prayer; so Christ must ingratiate us into the favour of his heavenly Father, God must enter Covenant with man, and man must be in good terms with his God by faith, repentance, obedience, or there is no Peace.  
Thirdly, there must be a sweet agreement between Prince and People, a gracious accord too of the people among themselves, knit together in the inviolable bonds of loyalty and love, neither entoiled with civil broils at home, nor infected with hostile inroads from without, all professing and maintaining that one eternal Truth, which is both Mother and Nurse of Peace: Such a Peace as was enjoyed in the days of Solomon, when Judah and Israel dwelled safely every one under his Vine, and under his Figtree, from Dan even to Beersheba. And in the days of Constantine, when there was silence in Heaven for the space of half an hour, and the sweet odours of the Prayers of the Saints ascended up as a cloud. But a shorter and more full definition of Peace we cannot have then Paul gives us, 1 Tim. 2. 2. That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. Here it is, a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, otherwise we may buy (as gold too dear, so) our Peace, evil conditions, as bad ingredients are able to embitter this sweet blessing and turn it into a curse, Balaam may engross the promotions of Moab, as the temporising Clergy of late the dignities of our Church, but upon saucy terms, they must come then and curse Israel, and they must build Altars the better to effect it, as it were with Bell, Book, and Candle, Micaiah may have the Court favours, but he must frame his mouth then to the flattering vein, and comply with the false Prophets in carrying on the King with lying visions to his destruction; Eliah himself need not despair of being Chaplain in ordinary to Queen jezabel, could he but bate of his fiery zeal, and take the Priests of Baal for his Comrades. Herod that fox will reverence john Baptist, and hear him gladly, if he will not meddle with his Herodias. Those Boanerges which the times favour not might be better accepted, would chey thunder less, and not lift up their voice like a Trumpet, that carnal men cannot sleep on for them securely in their sins. These cocks are a great disturbance to drowsy Sybarites, they cannot away with the unseasonable clamours of such wakeful birds. But we that are the Lords remembrancers must not keep silence though we be silenced for it, we must hold our faith, and hold the truth, hold our profession, and hold a good conscience, but not hold our peace: O'tis the basest tenure in all the World for any Minister to hold by, to hold his living, or hold his favour, hold his Peace by holding his peace. And so for public peace, Nahash the Ammonite will make a Covenant with the men of jabesh Gilead, upon condition he may thrust out all their right eyes, the Pope's condition just, upon which he admits blinded Proselytes into the communion of his Church.  
Hezekiah may make his Peace with great Senacherib, if he will take slavery with his bravery, the Assyrian yoke with his chain of gold, and become a Tributary King, some moderate men think that a good motion for controversies in Religion, which the false Mother made for the living child, Neither mine nor thine, but let it be divided. Upon such terms I doubt not, the Church of England, and the Church of Rome, Protestancy, and Popery might soon b●e reconciled, would we renounce our most Orthodox heresies, and come home to the un-erring Council of Trent. Christ's Kingdom would be more quiet, would he admit rivals, and compeers with him in his Throne, and suffer Rome's Saints to sit cheek by choul at his right hand, and at his left, as the Thiefs upon the Cross, to rob him of his honour; or would his faithful modest spouse but dress herself after the garb of the Scarlet whore, in that garish attire; she might find more favour in her sight. Holofernes would hurt none that would serve the King of Babylon: no more will the Jesuits infest those kingdoms that will worship their great Italian Idol, and be stigmatised with the mark of the Beast; and if this be it, we were best take a nearer cut unto the Devil for a boon, and as the miserable Indians fall down and worship the foul fiend, that he may not hurt us, appease and please him, that he may be quiet; rather when his conditions are ever most base, and he draws after him such a Dragon's tail of damned Idolatry, Si cecideris. Though he should offer us all the kingdoms of the world, the devil and all; our answer is made already: Avoid Satan, get thee behind me, thou foul fiend hold thy peace, thy kingdoms, thy money, thy peace perish with thee. And how much better were it, to have a biting Gospel, than a toothless Mass, as Bradford said; to sit under the saddest shade of the true Vine, even weeping, then to frolic it under the greenest Trees, and most pleasant Oaks of Idolatry, the people sat down to eat and to drink, and risen up to play; to enjoy Christ, though with the cross and persecution, then to live under Antichrist in all manner of temporal prosperity. Better the Kingdom were troubled with the Pope's leaden Bulls, than his golden Calves; and fell under the curse of a man of sin, than the wrath of a jealous God; you like not I presume, those hot gleams of Sunshine, which carry fierce storms and tempests at their heels, like your lucid intervals, lightnings as they call them, in sick folks, seconded with pangs of death, a short truce that brings after it long troubles: in a word, better have a holy and a just war, than an irreligious, dis-honourable and unsafe Peace; better want the peace of the Gospel, than not have with it the Gospel of Peace.  
It was Augustine's wish to see, Romam in flore, Paulum in ore, Christum in corpore, I English it thus, the Church in its flower, the Word in its power, each man in his Bower; such happy times were to be wished indeed, when righteousness and peace kiss each other, than it is right indeed; when God raiseth up Kings to be nursing Fathers, etc. when he sends in mercy Princes after his own heart, and sets up David's, solomon's, hezekiah's, to preserve the people committed to their charge, in Wealth, Peace, and Godliness.  
And now that you have seen what Peace is, you will quickly perceive that it is not incident to all Commonwealths, it is a choice blessing, and fit for none but the choicest Subject, Jerusalem: To speak properly, Peace is not where to be found, but in the true Church: Jerusalem is a City that is at unity in itself: Verity is the bond of Unity; neither can they be truly one, that are not one in Truth. The unity of other Kingdoms and Commonwealths, all societies in the world beside, is but the agreement of Simeon and Levi, Brethren in iniquity, the friendship of Herod and Pilate to crucify Christ, but a confederacy, or conspiracy rather, against the Lord and his Anointed; we must pray against this Peace, as dangerous and destructive to Jerusalem, with David, break the arm of the wicked, Lord turn the Counsel of Achitophel into foolishness. Say of it as Jacob of his sons. bloody riot, O my soul, come not thou into their secret, and unto their Assemblies, mine honour be thou not united.  
Now Jerusalem the true Church, and the Members thereof, though they cannot lose inward Peace, Christ's Legacy to them, My Peace I give unto you; yet they may forfeit outward peace: O that thou hadst harkened to my Commandments, than had thy peace been as a River, Isa. 48. 18 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold, Deut. 32. 30. Sin is a perpetual makebate between God and men, and men among themselves. Our Nationall sins, pride, gluttony, drunkenness, swearing, whoring, Sabbath-breaking, our neglect and slighting of the means of grace, our nonproficiency, after so long standing in the School of Christ, our though more science, yet less conscience then of darker times, our scornful contempt of the power of godliness, and trampling under our profane feet, the despised profession of sincerity, our superstitions, idolatry, form, perfunctorinesse, neutrality, lukwarmnesse, will-worship, and that universal loathing of the heavenly Manna of the Word, in the people of the Land, their hankering and longing after the trash and trumpery of spiritual Babylon, as the Garlic and Onions of Egypt: These and many other Epidemical sins loudly crying to Heaven for vengeance, provoked God to let lose Satan, to stir us up enemies abroad, and to sow too, Cadmus-like, his Serpent's teeth at home, which have sprung up into a baneful crop of armed men: but besides the cursed agency of these known incendiaries, to put a period to our Peace, many pernicious instruments, close Factors for Rome and Hell, were deeply engaged to imbroile these happily united Kingdoms in the uncouth miseries of Civil wars: to this end they enforce sundry Popish innovations, and lay upon the people heavy burdens of illegal taxes and impositions; too well versed in that maxim of Machiavellian policy, Divide & impera: and the story of Scilurus the Scythian, who upon his deathbed taught his fourscore sons, the force of unity, by a faggot of rods, very strong, when tied in bundles, but when taken asunder easily broken; these engines, they might be confident, would work their ends, grating upon men's Religion, and liberty, they well knew they should touch them in their Free-holds, touch them to the quick, this, if any thing would startle their patience, to stand out pro aris & focis. In this hurly-burly, dissensions, and distractions of all sorts, they had reason to believe, an easy inlet would be made to Foreign Powers to enthral this brave Kingdom under the tyranny of the Spanish pride, and to enslave the free borne Burgesses of the New Jerusalem with the intolerable yoke of the most Un-christrian and Antichristian Sea of Rome.  
Many inferior agents, and subordinate instruments which were employed, (as the Monkey in the Fable made use of the Cat's foot) though they had intermediate scopes of their own, and those bad enough, yet I verily believe, they knew not the main ends of their own motions, The grand Projectors knew, the old Greyes knew the cubs, the young Foxes did not; green heads, shallow brains, they were not able to fathom the depths of Satan, they knew not whither they were going, the devil that drove them knew: God knew who was taking away his Kingdom from us, and Christ knew who was departing out of our Coasts. And oh that ever this kingdom, such an enlightened Goshen as this, should hatch or harbour such black monsters, that would gnaw out the bowels of their own Mother; that so many Judasses' should be found amongst Christ's Disciples, so many false Sinon's amongst them that profess his name; but so long as there shall be a Devil in hell, and a Pope, shall I say, at Rome? nay so much room for a Pope here, we shall never want Achitophel's, and Ravilliacks, either heads to plot, or hands to act most bloody designs against Church and Commonwealth.  
And indeed quantillum ab fuit? the proud waters had well ni●h gone over our souls, and poor England been made the sad Prologue of that bloody Irish Tragedy; and now the odds is not great, God hath brought us upon the stage, our parts are acting now, and we are made the second Scene of it. Our mournful story is not told yet, the waters are not abated yet; the wicked are like the raging Sea, they swell and roar horribly; yet though they should rise higher, and even cover all, our comfort is, Christ is aboard the Ship, he can put bounds to the proud waves, even of the Irish seas, when he pleaseth; he can command a calm, and though he should be asleep, our prayers can awake him, if we cry unto him, Save Master we perish.  
But haply those jonahs', for whose sake this great tempest is come upon us, are snorting yet under hatches; let's try whether our loudest cries can a wake them first, What meanest thou, O thou sleeper? arise, call upon thy God; art thou only a stranger, said they then? there is not so very a stranger in this our Israel, whose ears have not been filled with those more than barbarous cruelties exercised by those cutthroat Rebels in Ireland upon our brethren by Nature, Nation, and Religion; God hath even thrown down the wall, and plucked up the hedge of that Vineyard, and let in the wild Boars of the Wood to root it up, and the savage Beasts to devour it; their houses have been rifled and fired, their wives deflowered, their daughters ravished, women great with child ripped up, old and young murdered and butchered without number, and without mercy; Nay, the same hands have acted over the same bloody parts with us, what plundering, what leading captive, what imprisoning, what starving, what hanging, what murdering and massacring have we had? As if our own breed, brats of the same litter had vied with those Monsters of Ireland for blood and cruelty. Peerless Lords, incomparable Knights, & Patriots, much of our brave Gentry, & truehearted Yeomanry have sacrificed their dearest Lives in this unhappy quarrel, lives too precious to be so vilely cast away, though with infinite odds, upon the scum of the Land, men base than the earth; and yet for all this the wrath of the Lord is not turned away, the Sword is not yet sheathed, the unnatural issue of blood in the body of the Kingdom is not stopped nor staunched yet; Is it not high time then for Aaron to take his Censer in his hand, and run between the living and the dead? O pray for the Peace, etc.  
The men of Israel have turned their backs, and fall'n too before the men of A●…: Is it not time then for godly Joshua and the Elders of Israel to rend their , and with blubbering tears, cry unto the Lord, O pray for peace?  
Israel and Amalek join battle daily: should not then Moses hands be lifted up in prayer: and Aaron and Hur help sustain them, till the Lord hath avenged us of our enemies? O pray for peace.  
When Christ's Sheep are but a little flock, their enemies many, you may call them Legion, and as bloody and ravenous as evening Wolves; should not the Vine branches out of a sense of their natural weakness twine and pleat, as it were hand in hand, and arm in arm? should the Lambs appointed for the slaughter, amidst such a world of Butchers, straggle one from another, break into factions and schisms, and so gratify the common enemy?  Hoc I hacus velit, et magno mercentur Atridae. 
Should they not rather enfold, associate, keep close together, and sweetly accord among themselves? O pray for the Peace.  
When so many Kings have given their power to the Beast to wage war against the Lamb, and the Israel of God, should not Jerusalem be a City that is at unity in itself? O pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.  
Now that the great Cause of the whole Kingdom is handling and debating in the High Court of Parliament; should the people of the Land suffer their own suit forwant of encouragement to starve upon their hands? Now that the great Argosy, the ship royal of Church & commonwealth is in danger to dash upon the rocks, or be swallowed up of Quicksands, by an Euroclydon, the Malignity of cross and contrary winds, unless those worthy Pilots who sit at Stern by some propitious gale from Heaven, be able to guide and conduct her to the fair Havens of Peace: should we not all lend an helping hand, should we not all have an Oar in this Boat, when we have all adventures in it? should we not cry and shout after it, Peace, Peace? Peace be within thy walls: for my brethren and companions sake, I will now say, Peace be within thee. O pray for the Peace, etc. Surely we Christians ought to prise as a mean of our greatest good, the peaceable frequenting public assemblies, and our future serving of God; Merchants are more glad of a calm then common Mariners, and make too a higher use of it: So should we Christians of halcyon days of Peace, than Heathens, forasmuch as we may and aught to improve them to richer ends of God's glory and our own salvation. But is't no more now, but ask and have, pray and and speed; must we stand still and see the salvation of God? Faith and dependence upon God doth not evacuate our own endeavours, prayer doth not justify the neglect, but presupposeth the use of all other means which God shall put into our hands; we may put forth the arm of flesh, but must not rely upon it: Indeed prayer alone will do the deed, in them that have no strength, and God no doubt will help his people in such a case even by a miracle; yet we must not tempt God, and expect that Manna in Canaan, which he intends but for the Wilderness. For David to stand fiddling with an Harp in his hand hoping to charm the evil Spirit, when Saul stands desparately armed with a Javelin in his, who can commend his wisdom, or promise him any security? 'Tis time now to lay hold on Goliahs' Sword, and well advised he was, there is none to that; Co●nsell and strength are for the war: Rabshakeh was right in this, Fas est & ab hoste doceri, Counsel that is your work, honoured Senators, and it should be sound and secret; the everlasting Counsellor make it such, that you may decree a thing, and the Lord may bring it to pass, and let him never prosper, if there be yet any false Brother, any close Spy in your bosom to reveal arcana Imperii to your enemies: there must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as well as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as well as either, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Moses in the Mount praying, Aaron and Hur staying up his hands, and Joshua beneath with an Army fight with Amalek And here my heart is toward the Governors among the people; those noble Commanders, and Valiants of Israel, whether of our own Nation, or our brethren of Scotland, whose affection was so inflamed towards us, that the sharpest winter season could not abate it, whose love was so great, that many waters could not quench it, nor the floods drown it, all that jeopard their lives unto the death in the high places of the field, and among these as high in merit, those lightning Legions of the City bands, who so willingly offer themselves to the help of the Lord, the help of the Lord against the mighty: The good Lord remember them for this, and reward all their kindness an hundred-fold into their bosom; and let this be written for the Generations that are to come, that the people that are unborn may praise the Lord. And verily, they that come not in now, fall deservedly under Meroz curse: how much more they that help the mighty against the Lord, who Nero-like rip up the bowels of their own Mother? the men of Smyrna had but a poor and beggarly kind of charity, yet they prayed for their neighbours of Chios; but these are so fare from praying for them, that they prey upon them, and more inhuman than the very Cannibals, devour those of their own Country; but let them take heed, lest as Philip branded a Soldier that would have begged the Land of his honest host, with ingratus hospes, ungrateful wretch up on his forehead, so God brand them for their base thoughts of making our worthy Patriots a trampled footstool to their ambition, & raising their broken fortune upon the ruins of the three Kingdoms, and cause their names to rot, or else remain as pilate's in the Creed, a curse to all posterity. And indeed this, if ever any, is the holy war, the Lord himself seems to have set up his Standard, and sounded an Alarm from heaven, Who is on my side, who? and we all own this fealty to our great Landlord Possessor, etc. we hold of him in Capite, in Chieftage, and so should perform our homage in Knight-service, and follow the Lamb in all his wars; and we hold of him in Soccage too, and so must do him plow-service, break up our fallow ground, and sow in righteousness. And oh that the Lord would raise the sunk hearts of our British Yeomanry, renowned heretofore for their brave courage and high achievements; that he would not suffer a freeborn lion-like people, to degenerate into a Kingdom of Asses; that he would once take off the base cowardice from their low Spirits, and seeing he hath given them wisdom to get riches, he would give them courage also to defend it. Go to the Ant thou sluggard, and consider her ways, and see, they have taken forth the lesson of her providence in gathering wealth, they should go now to the Bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, so it follows in the Septuagint, a stout creature to defend her own, 
Illis ira modum supra est, laesaeque venenum  
Mor●ibus inspirant, animamque in vulnere ponunt.  Seeing plundering Drones are every where breaking into their Freeholds, if they will needs have their honey, they should make them taste their sting too; and seeing, as Solon told Croesus, the hardest iron is like to carry all the Gold; they should remember their Swords in times of Peace were beaten into Plowshares, and now resolve their plowshares into their old principles, and turn them into Swords again; and I hope they will be so wise as make them win it, before they wear it. But now our arms cannot move without their nerves, money is the sinew of war; there must be not only praying and fight, but paying too; and here my heart is toward the freehearted, and open handed Araunahs, who have given like Kings, not only of their superfluities, but even with the widow in the Gospel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, their whole living; yet I hope not so exhausted, but that they will find more yet to support a poor Church and State at a dead lift; and the Lord increase their store, and multiply even by a miracle, that little meal in the barrel, and oil in the cruse, till he send rain upon the Earth; and I would have it remembered, that the Turks in sacking Constantinople, the Imperial City of the East, quickly possess't themselves of vast treasures of gold and silver, when, to the eternal dis-honour of the Christian world, money enough could not be raised for Garrison soldiers to defend it: They shall have for their security, not only the Public faith of both the Kingdoms, but of the faithful witness in Heaven too: And lock whatsoever they lay out, it shall be paid them again, infinitely, beyond the proportion of any usury, an hundred fold in this life, and Crowns and Kingdoms in the world to come.  
But the burden lies upon some few, the more is God pleased to honour them, he will not beg, it seems, at every man's door, their money may perish with them, yet if their bags come not in as Volunteers, they should be pressed to it, their gold perhaps will prove more cordial than themselves: and there is all the reason in the world, the buckets of those boutifues should walk most to quench the fire themselves have kindled. When Christ wanted a royal Steed for his triumphant progress to Jerusalem, he sent his Disciples to the next Village, with this Commission, You shall find an Ass tied, lose him and bring him unto me, and if any man question you for it, say, The Lord hath need of him, and he will let him go.  
Honourable Patriots, Christ is now gone forth with his Triumphant Army, conquering and to conquer, and if you want Arms, or Money, or Horse, for their accommodation, all the beasts of the field, though they be not ferae naturae, yet are ferae Dei, even the Cattle upon a thousand hills. He is Lord Paramount, the great Possessor of heaven and earth, as Abraham styled him. Art thou then God's Tenant? dost thou owe him Knight-service, and Plow-service, and doth he want thy Horse, and shall he not have it?  
Zacheus, doth Christ want thy house or thy dinner, and shall he not have it? Marry, doth Christ want thy tears or thy hairs, and shall he not have them? Joseph, doth Christ want thy Tomb, and shall he not have it? The Owners, I hope, will not try Titles with God, but remember themselves to be Stewards, and not Proprietaries, and let them go; and if not, take them though, your warrant is good, The Lord hath need of them. And me thinks men should be willing to part with any thing for a quiet life; Dulce nomen pacis. And if the very name be sweet and amiable, how much more the thing itself?  
Peace, sure, is a most desirable blessing, if these Cities, and the neighbour Counties which yet enjoy it in part, know it not, ask Germany, ask Ireland, or nearer home, ask the poor plundered Countries that want it:  Nulla salus bello; Pacem te poscimus omnes. 
If we be put to pay for peace, as we are bid to pray for Peace, and so have it, we have it so at an easy rate, if we should buy it over and over, we should not over-buy in; if some blood be spent for it, pity indeed there should be any, yet we shall be gainers by it, when they that shed it die Martyrs, and it shall be too the seed of a glorious Church. So than it must be Manus ad clavum, oculus ad Calum, the hand to the Helm, and the eye to Heaven, there must be an head to counsel, a heart to pray, a hand to fight, and a purse to pay, we must pray and use the means, use the means and pray, O pray.  
But who now shall go up for us; who be they that must pray? Indeed it were but reason, that they whose sins are gone up to Heaven, should send after them, their prayers and tears, and try whether they be able to drown the clamour of their sins, by the louder cry of their prayers, but the misery is, they that cry most in their sins, are least able to speak in Prayers, they are loud vowels or consonants, one way, but still and dumb mutes the other: they whose hands have been most busy to set the Kingdom on fire, are not able to afford one drop of water from their hard and stony hearts, to quench it. As Joshua said, ye cannot serve the Lord, so all cannot pray. Every one is not a fit Ambassador to the King of Heaven.  
The blind man saw something that said, God heareth not sinners: to the wicked, God saith, What hast thou to do to take my name into thy mouth? And to such sinners as hate to be reform, I may say as Christ to the unclean spirit, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Hold thy peace, keep thy breath to cool thy torment; yet sinners repenting come: Come now and let us reason together, saith the Lord. Thou canst not pray, yet thou eatest to get thee a stomach, so, pray that thou mayest pray; the word and prayer are for beginnings and entrance in grace, and though thou canst not pray, yet run to Christ, He can teach thee: Lord teach us to pray.  
But now the house of David, and the Inhabitants of Jerusalem, the true Converts in Israel, the dear Saints and fervants of God, whose faithful fervent prayer availeth much; these are they must run of this errand, these must pray for the Peace of Jerusalem. So Moses and Aaron must pray, Pharaoh could not; Exod. 8. 8. The man of God must pray, Jeroboam could not, 1 King. 13. 6. Peter and John must pray, Simon Magus could not, Act. 8. 24. The righteous must pray, the workers of iniquity cannot, Psal. 14. 4. they call not upon God. You then that are the dear favourites of Heaven, eloquent Orators at the Throne of grace, royal Priests of the most high God, to come with humble boldness into his presence, to plead continually, and persuade with him, and put incense before him, who as Princes prevail with God, with grateful violence holding the everlasting arms, and overcoming him who is Omnipotent, whose powerful Prayers can work Miracles; open and shut heaven, obtain any blessing, remove any judgement, whose zeal is able to call down fire from heaven, to consume Captains and their Companies, and muster up whole legions of destroying Angels, against the face of your enemies, and whose faith can fill the Mountains and Valleys with Horses of fire, and Chariots of fire, for defence and safety of you Israel's: you that are the Lords remembrancers, give him no rest till he make Jerusalem a praise in the Earth, speak you in the ears of God, entreat now the face of the Lord for us, lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left.  
Enforce your faithful fervent Prayers with strong cries and tears at the Mercy seat, and say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thy heritage to reproach, that the Heathen should rule over them. We are very right then, we are seeking God in his own way, the price of Peace is in our hands, and the purchase is before us, Fasting is a good handmaid to devotion, to pluck off our shoes before we enter into God's presence, an useful servant to keep the Asses at the foot of the Mount, whilst Abraham goes up to sacrifice, to cudgel away our lusts, which otherwise as little puppies will nothing but leap about us; wholesome discipline to beat down our body, and bring it in subjection, to humble and withdraw the soul from brutish and unreasonable motions; and an excellent exercise to kindle in us a spiritual appetite, and get us a good stomach to our prayers; and when faith and fervency have given wings to our devotion, this will imp those wings, and make them fly home with more speed to the Throne of Grace.  
And here worthy Fathers of your Country, and the rest all beloved, I bear you witness, you have been with Paul, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, you have continued now many days with Christ in his temptation, your prayers and tears have even now been your meat and drink, and you have fall'n, I hope, hearty to it; but I must invite you yet, as to an aftermeale, and desire you in God's name to fall to it again, God will have not only the morning incense, but the evening sacrifice, that as the sinner's repentance sets him at liberty for showing mercy, so the righteous man's prayer may tie up his hand from doing Justice. Our Saviour often calls for audience from his most attentive hearers, Matth. 13. And David in the greatest ardency of devoutest praises, calls up and summons in the powers of his soul, to do over the same duty again and again, and to do it yet better: Praise the Lord, O my soul, Psal. 103. 1, 2.  
And surely God is about some great work, he intends some great blessing to the Land, we trust he will bless our eyes with the happy sight of the King in his beauty, the Lord Jesus upon his glorious Throne, with all his holy Ordinances about him in their purity and power, that in his time the righteous may flourish, and abundance of Peace so long as the Moon endureth. The humbling our souls before our God, abhorring ourselves, repenting in dust and ashes, the saving a poor undone Church and State from utter ruin and destruction; the dethroning Satan and Antichrist, and setting up the Kingdom of Christ, over the hearts and lives of the people of the land; the laying the sure foundation of a blessed peace, these are the great works of the day: no wonder then that every faint desire, and impotent endeavour, be not competent to carry on such great motions as these: No, God will have us cry and cry mightily, before he will answer.  
A cold suitor begs his own denial; God will have us jacob's, before we shall be Israel's: cito data vilescunt, that which is soon gotten, is as soon forgotten; God will enhance the price of his good blessings by the dear purchase of them, he will have them not only samuel's, begged of God, but Napthalies, with great wrestlings obtained of him; and even Christ himself, though the Son, yet learned obedience, he was heard indeed, in that he feared, but it cost him strong cries and tears for it, Except ye become as little children, ye cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven: As little children, how is that? little children, if they would have any thing from their tenderhearted Mothers, they have many dear entreaties, and pretty insinuations to win them to it; but if those will not do, they put finger in the eye, and will be sure to carry it by crying, than the bowels yern, and the Mother yields. So it is in our suits to our heavenly Father. Jacob wept and made supplication, and had power over the Angel, and prevailed, Hosea 12. 4. Though God keep silence sometimes at our prayers, he will not hold his peace at our tears. Psal. 39 12.  
And now to set on the point more closely upon the conscience, by way of application, my first address shall be to you Honourable Worthies, in a Use of Admonition.  
It is a general rule for Prayer, that the Petitions of it must be practised as well as prayed. We bless God for your piety in commanding, and your zeal in commending and encouraging these solemn days of public Humiliation; we would not have you slacker in devotion, but quicker in motion. You must pray for peace, and pursue too the things that belong to your peace. We obtain great Victories, but have no skill to use them, Vincere scis Hannibal, uti victoria nescis, the time of action we while away in consultation, and improve not those precious advantages which God puts into our hands; Dum moliuntur, dum comuntur annus est, whilst armies might be subdued, and kingdoms reduced, we stand recruting our unbroken Forces, like tedious musicians more in tuning then in playing.  
Scuh tiring remoras, GOD help us, hang upon our swiftest motions, we are even undone by delays, and quickly spend what prayer hath been long a getting: And oh that the Lord would raise us up some Jehues to march furiously, (and men are never right indeed till in this sense they are beside themselves) to put more mettle into our Charet-wheeles, that drive so heavily: Oh that the Lord would purge our Armies, and purge all our Bodies; our soundest bodies, God knows, need some purging; the zeal of the Lord of Hosts must do this, man's courage will never do it: Oh that he would cashier those that carry on counter-motions, to protract and spin out the War, till they have broken all our brave spirits, quite beggared the State, brought our worthy Patriots upon their knees, and forced them in that mean posture to pray for, and pay for too, an irreligious, dishonourable, and unsound Peace.  
And I know not how it comes to pass, though we prevail, as Jacob in his wrestling, we go away halting, and with Samson, are creepled by the fall of our enemies, and we spend more time in setting a bone, than they in making a new body. To mend this I move for a new association that zealous prayer, sound counsel, constant resolution, speedy action, be firmly joined together; let these as water and ice, mutually produce, and be resolved too, one into another.  
Secondly, God will have mercy and not sacrifice, and justice too, rather than sacrifice; and as he is content that the acts of his own immediate worship should be suspended, that mercy may be exercised, so also that justice may be executed. Get thee up, wherefore liest thou upon thy face, saith the Lord to Joshua? He is called away from his devotion to an act of Justice. Phinehas stood up and prayed, or executed judgement, the word will bear either sense, and 'tis like he performed both; prayer doubtless is a good preparative to Judgement, and judgement as good an enforcement to prayer. Achan must be stoned, before Israel could stand before their enemies. Jonah must over board, before the tempest would over: 'Twas not the Son of Jesse, but those sons of Kish that hindered the Kingdom's settlement; some of that bloody house must be hanged up then before the judgement would cease, and they that trouble Israel, must be troubled now before there will be peace.  
In Magistrates, jacob's voice, and Esau's rough hands are best welcome to God, and he will not hear their Prayers, unless their hands in this sense be full of blood. We thankfully acknowledge that many an excellent Ordnance hath passed the honourable Houses; but cui bono? when they were but brutum fulmen, and do no execution, when they lie still as the log in the fable, till the frogs leap upon them: would you put life into them, and turn them into storks; they would soon make them leave their insultations; but alas! now what have the harmless laws done, that they should be hanged up daily, till they be dead, when Delinquents are spared?  Non leges, verum figeredisce reos. 
I urge not for sentences of condemnation. I should be sorry to have Letters to excite to that: the good Emperor was sorry he knew Letters to write: I plead only for Justice against those children of death, such as are dead in Law already, that a tribute of wolves heads may be laid upon bloody Ireland, till that monstrous generation of new Cannibals be quite rooted out: and we have too cutthroats among ourselves; and I hope the good blood of those honest Clothiers, that cries loud for vengeance in God's ears, cries yet for Justice in yours. They have presumed to set you a Copy like Draco's Laws in blood, if you now write after it, in red ink, and capital Letters, they may thank themselves; and seeing they have been so bold as to begin to their batters, make them pledge you now, and give them blood to drink, for they are worthy. And to in large this use to all that hear me; know that a day of humiliation must not determine with the day. God expects we should battle, as well one way by our Fasts, as by our Feasts another; My tears have been my meat, says David, and my prayers returned into mine own bosom; we must live upon our prayers, and thrive by our prayers, and go forth in the strength of our prayers: our faces should shine, and our graces should shine after we have been fasting, as Moses with God in the Mount: show me not the meat, but show me the man; we should show forth the effect of our humiliation in our reformation; by our abstinence we should pine our flesh, and starve our sins, and our repentant tears should be a Noah's flood to drown all our old world, that there may be a new face of things, a new man, a new creature, all things new. And for the point in hand, you must not think your work done when your prayers are ended, you must then act over your prayers, and live over your prayers: the Sermon ended say not it is done, that part is wanting yet, and rests in thee, thy life must be the real Sermon. Fellow Peace, says the Apostle, we must pray for peace and follow peace, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, follow it with earnestness, though it fly from you pursue it though, and pursue too the things that belong to your peace, and pursue too the enemies of your Peace, there is no sin sure in that kind of persecution; when I see so many Military men about the City, me thinks I might put to them the Angel's question, What dost thou here Eliah? 'Twas a worthy speech of a brave Soldier, My Lord Joab and the Armies of Israel are encamped in the open fields, shall I then go down to my house? and would not he solace himself with his lawful consort: what make they then in unlawful beds? Is my Lord Joab, and the Armies of Israel encamped in open fields: what do these then shrouding themselves under the umbrage of every Vintner's bush, swaggering in Meseck, and revelling in the Tents of Kedar? What dost thou here Uriah?  Nos patriam fugimus, tu Tytire lentus in umbra. 
And for the rest, you must not sit still neither, but up and be doing, your heads, your hearts, your hands, your purses, all must be stirring here, all working for Peace, not only must the rich cast into God's treasuries of their superfluities but their substance too, the poorest widowher mite, & every one not only his mite, but his might also we should all lay out ourselves in all our abilities, even stretch ourselves to our utmost possibilities, ready to spend and be spent upon the purchase of peace.  
Secondly, for an use of exhortation, the duty that I press is no lip labour, there is more in it then ask and have, pray and speed; the Kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force; we must even besiege Heaven with our united forces, and raise such batteries against God's gates, that we may break open those everlasting doors, and plunder all his treasures of eternity; and now me thinks, that we feel it coming, we should set all our shoulders to the work, and as the Apostle bids, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, strive together as fellow soldiers with a full concurrence of all our might; we must even compass Babylon, as the Israelites did Jericho, yet seven times more in one day; and shout against it with a great shout, before the walls will come down, and the Angel cry, Babylon is fallen, is fallen.  
My last address shall be to you, worthy Fathers of your Country, and all that look for redemption in Israel, in a word of Consolation. The most look upon the armies of troubles that are mustered up against this poor Church and State, as Elisha's Servant upon the great Host of the Assyrians about Dothan, and cry out as he, Alas Master, how shall we do? but it may be answered with the Prophet there, Fear not, for they that be with us, are more than they that be with them, and would the Lord but open our eyes we might behold the mountain filled with horses of fire & Charets of fire round about us, when at Christ's word we have walked oft upon the proud waves of a roaring sea, seen their rage and tumult broken into foam, and ebbing into emptiness, yet when a stronger gust then ordinary blows upon us, we are ready to cry out with Peter in his fear, Lord save us we perish; and we well deserve to be chid for it, why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Every cockboat can sail in a river, every School can live in a calm. God hath embarked you, Worthy Pilots, in the good Ship called the Victory; this is the victory that overcommeth, even your faith; and you have by you the Anchor of hope, the Sheat-Anchor that will hold, when all other tackling fails, and therefore though the blackest tempest riseth, & one deep calleth, etc. you may ride on though the great billows rowles towards you, even in the deep waterfloods your spirits need not faint, nor your heart fail; but you may lift up the crest, and bear up your heads; and be of good cheer, You carry not Caesar, but Christ: Nay, as in the old Emblem of Saint Christopher, you bear not Christ, but Christ bears you: They can never sink that have the Word for their Compass, and Christ for the Helm. 'Twas the pious presumption of holy Ambrose, wherewith he comforted Monica Augustine's Mother then a Manichee, whom she had daily with much importunity recommended to the Throne of Grace, Impossibile est ut filius istarum lachrymarum pereat, It is impossible that a Son of so many prayers and tears should die an heretic. And may we not much more with an humble confidtnce build upon the mercy of God, for the preservation and deliverance of this poor afflicted Church and State, which have been the subjects of so much godly sorrow in so many days of public and private humiliation? It is beyond all belief, that a Mother Church, a Mother State, of so many prayers and tears, should ever sit as a widow, mourning like Rachel; that such a Bochim, a place of weepers, should be turned into Aceldama, a field of blood. Right Honourable and ever Honoured Patiots, God will give you beauty for ashes, the garments of joy for the spirit of heaviness; and as you have been Benonies, the Sons of our sorrow, so God will make you his Benjamins, the Sons of his right hand, and the Kingdom's joy. That man sure is in a good way of thriving, that hath a stock going in every part of the Kingdom at once: So our Parliament, our Armies, our Navy, when they have a stock of Prayers going for them in every part of the Protestant World, when they have so many able Factors and Agents negotiating for them at the throne of grace; one Paul saved the lives of all in the Ship. One innocent delivers the Island. And shall not many Paul's, and many innocents' much more do it now? One Eliah, and one Elisha were the Charets of Israel, and the horsemen thereof; and shall not many such be Armies Royal, and Navies Royal now? If one righteous man were found in Jerusalem, the Lord would pardon it, Jer. 5. If ten righteous had been found in Sodom itself, God would not destroy it for ten sake. Hath God forgotten to be gracious, will he shut up his loving kindness in displeasure when so many righteous are in this Kingdom, & in this City, will he make it like Sodom, and make it like Gomorrah?  
I will not execute the fierceness of my anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: For I am God and not Man, the holy One in the midst of thee; and I will not enter into the City.  
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A Catalogue of the names of those Divines who have Preached before the Parliament, beginning Jan. 18. to September 25. 1644.  
At a Thanksgiving before the Parliament and City of London. 

Jan. 18. Mr. Marshal, 1 Chron. 12. 38, 39, 40.  
Jan. 31.— 

Mr. Cawdrey, Prov. 29. 8.  
Mr. Rutherford, Dan. 6. 26.    
Febr. 28.— 

Mr. Bailiff, Zach. 3. 1, 2.  
Mr. Young, Psal. 31. 24.    
Mar. 27.— 

Mr. Gillespie, Ezek. 43. 11.  
Mr. Bond, Isa. 45. 15.      
A Thanksgiving for the Victory over Sir. R. Hoptons' Army. 

Apr. 9— 

Mr. Ob. Sedgwicke, Psal. 3. 8.  
Mr. Case, Dan. 11. 32.      
At the Thanksgiving for the Victory at Selby in Yorkshire 

Apr. 23.— 

Mr. Perne, Exod. 34. 6.  
Mr. Carryl, Rev. 11. 16, 17.    
Apr. 24.— 

Dr. Staunton, Deut. 32. 31.  
Mr. Green, Neh. 1. 3, 4.    
May 29.— 

Dr. Smith, Psal. 107. 6.  
Mr. Henry Hall, Mat. 11. 12.    
June 26.— 

Mr. Hardwicke, Psal. 126. 5, 6.  
Mr. Hickes, Isa. 28. 5, 6.      
At the Thanksgiving for the Victory over Prince Rupert, and the surrender of York. 

July 18.— 

Mr. Vines, Isa. 63. 8.  
Mr. Henderson, Mat. 14. 21.    
July. 31.— 

Mr. Rathband, not Printed.  
Mr. Stanley Gower, Dan. 12. 10.    
Aug. 13.— 

Mr. Hill. At a fast extraordinary.  
Mr. Palmer. At a fast extraordinary.    
Aug. 28.— 

Mr. Rayner, Hag. 2. 6, 7.  
Mr. Tesdale, Psal. 122. 6.    
Sep. 12.— 

Mr. Newcomen, Joh. 7. 10. At a East extraordinary.  
Mr. Coleman, Psal. 66. 3. At a East extraordinary.    
Sept. 25.— 

Mr. Prophet, Isa. 9 14.  
Mr. Seaman, 1 King. 39