Metropolis and Royal City of the whole Land of Judea at that time and in the days of King Solomon and always afterward was the Royal City of the Kingdom of Judah till they were carried into Captivity for their great Sin and Wickedness And here in Jerusalem the House and Posterity of King David Reigned and had their Royal Throne and God himself doth signifie that they should Reign here and that the People should be prosperous and happy under their Government if they would hearken to his voice and keep his sacred Commandments This was the Supreme Seat of Judgment among them where the highest Courts of Judicature were kept and where true and impartial Justice was to be Administred whereby every one was to be protected and defended in his just Rights and Liberties And by the Regal Power thereof were they to be preserved from the invasion and annoyance of all Forreign Enemies And upon the Peace and Prosperity hereof did their own Peace and Prosperity depend and could not well subsist without it In this City did God declare that his Servant David should have a Light before him 1 Kings 11.36 And unto his Son that is Solomon's Son will I give one tribe that David my Servant may have a light always before me in Jerusalem the City which I have chosen me to put my Name there For Solomon's sin in departing from the Lord and following of Idols and for the wickedness of the People did God declare that he would rend part of the Kingdom from his Sons and posterity and give it to Jeroboam but yet he would let them have a part for David's sake that he might have a Light before the Lord in Jerusalem that is a Son and Heir of his Family to reign there in Jerusalem And although Abijam deserved to have his Posterity deprived thereof yet God would have David to have a Lamp there still and have Jerusalem established with the Royal Throne of King David 1 Kings 15.4 Nevertheless for David's sake did the Lord his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem to set up his Son after him and to establish Jerusalem And this is one reason why the Lord would defend this City from the King of Assyria because it was the Royal City of the House of his Servant David 2 Kings 19.34 And when God was about to deliver them to be spoiled by their Enemies he declares to them that if they would repent and keep his Commandments and sanctifie his Sabbaths he would still grant to them this blessing that they should have the Kings hereof over them ruling in great prosperity and that they should still be happy under their Government Jer. 17.25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this City Kings and Princes sitting upon the Throne of David riding in Chariots and on Horses they and their Princes the Men of Judah and the Inhabitants of Jerusalem and this City shall remain for ever And so Jer. 22.3 And the Psalmist here in this Psalm doth mention as a part of the Prerogatives of this City of Jerusalem that the Seats of Judgment and the Throne of the Kingdom was there and doth hereby intimate that this was one reason why they should pray for the Peace and Happiness of it ver 5 the Verse before the Text For there are set Thrones of judgment the Thrones of the House of David And vers 8. For my Brethren and Companions sakes I will now say Peace be within thee We may see that it was upon publick respects that he enjoyns them to pray for the Peace of Jerusalem And we may conceive that this was one reason why he requires them to pray for it because it was the Regent City and the Royal Throne of the Kingdom was fixed there and it was the chief place where Justice and Judgment were to be executed In praying then for Jerusalem we may conceive that he intends no less than that they should pray that this City might be advanced and set up on high and that the Throne of David might be therein continued and that he might not want a Man to sit thereon after him to sway the Scepter thereof in Truth and Righteousness That the Kings hereof might prosper and be Mighty and that they might protect and save the People from all their Enemies That true Justice and Judgment might be administred from hence and every one defended in his just Rights and Liberties That they should seek and pray for the Peace of Jerusalem their head City because in the Peace thereof they all should enjoy great Peace and Prosperity as God ordered them afterwards to Pray for the Peace of Babylon upon the like account when he sent them into Captivity Jer. 29.7 And seek the Peace of the City whether I have caused you to be carried away Captives and pray unto the Lord for it For in the Peace thereof shall ye have Peace And much more then might they expect Peace and Prosperity in the Peace of their own City Jerusalem in the days of David and Solomon and the succeeding Kings thereof In praying then for the Peace of Jerusalem he doth in effect require them to pray for their whole Polity and Government and for the Good and Welfare of their whole Land and Nation that depended hereupon and was made happy in the Peace and Prosperity of this City and the Throne therein established But farther Jerusalem was the Renowned City of all the World that had none like it upon the face of the whole Earth for this was the City of the great King the Lord of Hosts the City that he had chosen above all others to place his sacred Name there and to be the place of his more peculiar Residence here amongst us Mortals and here was a Temple then to be built for his Honor and Service according to his own direction and appointment which was to be a House of Prayer to all Nations and here had he commanded them to perform his more solemn Worship and Service and here he vouchsafed more of his divine Presence than he did in any City besides And upon this account especially it is that the Royal Psalmist exhorts and enjoyns them to pray for the Peace of Jerusalem God did declare by his servant Moses that he would choose a place to cause his Name to dwell there and that they should resort to that place to perform there more solemn Worship and Service to him there long before David's time Deut. 12.10 But when ye go over Jordan saith Moses and dwell in the Land which the Lord your God giveth you to inherit and when he giveth you rest from all your Enemies round about so that you dwell in safety then shall there be a place which the Lord your God shall chuse to cause his Name to dwell there thither shall ye bring all that I command you your burnt-offerings and your sacrifices your tythes and the heave-offerings of your hand and all your choice vows which ye vow
unto the Lord. By this and other places in Deut it is plain that God would chuse a place for his sacred Name and that they were to resort thither to perform their more solemn Worship and Service to him there And here at this place were all their Males to appear three times in the year Deut. 16.16 Three times in a year shall all thy Males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose in the feast of unleavened bread and in the feast of weeks and in the feast of tabernacles And the Lord did signify to David that he had chosen Jerusalem for this place where he would put his holy Name And so he saith Psal 132.13 For the Lord hath chosen Zion he hath desired it for his Habitation This is my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have desired it And Zion was a part of Jerusalem and seems to be put for the whole And unto Jerusalem had David brought the Ark of God and put it in the Tent which he had there made for it until the Temple was builded 2 Chr. 1.4 And here had he prepared a place for the Temple of the Lord and did intend to build it but God would have Solomon his Son to build it and he builded it in the place that David had prepared 2 Chr. 3.1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah where the Lord appeared unto David his Father in the place that David had prepared in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite And not only the City and the place but the very draught of this house of God was shewed to David and God himself seems to order the fashion of it as he did of the Tabernacle in the wilderness and David delivered the pattern thereof to his son Solomon 1 Chr. 28.11 And according to these divine Instructions did Solomon build this extraordinary Temple of the Lord and as soon as it was finished the glory of the Lord appeared in it 1 Kings 8.10 And here was he to be more solemnly worshiped than any where else a great part of his Worship and Service being appropriated to this peculiar Temple of his In Zion it was that praise waited for him and in Jerusalem was the vow to be performed to him Psal 65.1 and 116.18 19. And saith the Psalmist Psal 48.2 Beautiful for situation the joy of the whole Earth is mount Zion on the sides of the north the City of the great King The Temple here was God's peculiar house and to be an house of Prayer to all people Is 56.7 And upon this account of Religion and of God's Worship and Service it is that Jerusalem is called the holy City the City of God the City of the great King and God said to love it above all others Matt. 4.5 and 5.35 And Psal 87.2 The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of thee O City of God Upon this account especially it is that the Royal Psalmist requires them to pray for Jerusalem because it was the capital City of Religion the City of the Lord of hosts that he had espoused to himself above all others and his great Temple of Worship was to be here for upon this house of God had the devout Psalmist set his heart and affections though it was not then built as he sheweth 1 Chr. 29.3 Moreover because I have set my affection to the house of my God saith he I have of mine own proper good And upon this account it is that he is so much concerned for Jerusalem And this he declareth himself in this psalm 122.9 Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good This is the great reason why he would seek the good of Jerusalem and doth exhort others to pray for it because God's House and solemn Worship was to be here and his heart was set upon them In praying then for Jerusalem he doth exhort and require them to pray for the good and welfare of the Church of God that it might enjoy all Peace and Quiet and that his Worship and Service might here at Jerusalem be performed in a due and publick manner to his great Honour and Glory and to the real benefit and comfort of his Worshippers and Servants That his Sanctuary and holy Place there might not be polluted and profaned by Heathens and unhallowed Persons and his Worship and Service corrupted or quite neglected and cast off and Religion driven to hide her head but that Jerusalem might be as a City upon an hill taken notice of and admired by all the World for the solemn Worship of Almighty God that should there be performed That they might unanimously Serve and Worship God there and that all Nations might flock thither to his Solemnities and to join in his Worship and Service That many Nations might come and say as it is Mic. 4.2 Come and let us go up to the Mountain of the Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths That God's Ordinances and Worship should there be duely celebrated and kept where they ought and with that purity and devotion and splendor that they ought too That true Religion might be advanced and in esteem among them and that God's Honour and Service might be set up and exalted above all and that it might be joy and gladness of heart to them to see it so In praying for the Peace of Jerusalem he seems to do no less than require and enjoin them to pray for the good and welfare of their whole Nation which depended hereupon and especially that they should pray for the Good and Prosperity of the Church that it might flourish and enjoy all manner of Peace among them and that God might be duely served at his Temple the place that he himself had chosen And now from this Text we may see that it is our duty to be much concerned and to pray for our Jerusalem in this manner That we should bear hearty good-will to our own Land and Nation and the Israel of God among us and especially to our own Church and that pure Religion among us That we should be very zealous in our Prayers for them and endeavour to preserve them and to do them all the good we can in a lawful way This we are taught by this Text For the Psalmist spake by the Spirit of God and what he hath said here is to be an Instruction to us as well as it was to the Jews Rom. 15.4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime saith the Apostle were written for our learning And we may see that under the names of Jerusalem and Zion the Christian Church seems often to be meant or at the least to be included therein Jer. 33.15 In those days and at that time will I cause the Branch of Righteousness to grow up unto
THE CHURCH's REQUEST To all her Faithful SONS AND CHILDREN That they would now pray for her and stand by her and help her what they can and not forsake her in her desolate condition and the dark Time of Popery that is coming upon her Written by Digby Bull M. A. and late Rector of Sheldon in Warwick-shire LONDON Printed for the Author And are to be Sold by J. Whitlock near Stationers-Hall 1695. Psalm CXXII VI Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem They shall prosper that love thee THE Royal and Devout Psalmist King David who was the Composer of this Psalm as the Title of it declareth doth shew that he was not a Man wholly intent upon his own private Concerns and Interest and wholly taken up with his own Pleasures and Profit and Advancement as too many now are but that he was a Man of a publick Spirit and greatly concerned for his own Land and Nation and the Good and Prosperity thereof And in an especial manner was he concerned for the pure Worship of Almighty God being not lukewarm herein but very fervent and zealous for the true Religion and for the Honour and Service of the true and only God That he was tender of the common good and welfare of his People he sheweth in many instances and particularly in bewailing the loss of them by the Plague that God sent upon them and desiring that they might be spared and that the Hand of God might be against him and his Father's House 2 Sam. 24.17 And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the Angel that smote the People and said Lo I have sinned and I have done wickedly but these sheep what have they done Let thine hand I pray thee be against me and against my Father's house So much doth he shew himself concerned for the common good and so much troubled for the loss of so many of his People by the Plague that God sent upon them And in an extraordinary manner doth he shew himself zealous in all Matters of Religion and for the pure Worship and Service of Almighty God composing Psalms for that purpose and ordering the courses of the Priests and taking great care that they duely executed their Offices and Functions to the Glory and Honour of Almighty God And he sought out a place for his sacred Temple and intended to build it out of hand if God had not prevented him and told him that he should leave that work to his Son Solomon because he had been a Man of War and shed much blood Lord saith he Ps 132.1 remember David and all his afflictions How he sware unto the Lord and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob. Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house nor go up into my bed I will not give sleep to mine eyes or slumber to mine eye-lids until I find out a place for the Lord an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob. So zealous and intent was he upon this matter and likewise towards all other matters of Religion And for his Zeal especially towards the Worship and Service of Almighty God it is as we may conceive that he is so highly commended and renowned in the Word of God for being a Man after Gods own heart Acts 13.22 And he is not only zealous herein himself for the preserving and promoting of the pure and sincere Worship of Almighty God and the good and prosperity of his Church and People but doth earnestly exhort all others to be so too and to pray for the Peace and Prosperity of them assuring them that those that should do so that should bear true love towards them and seek their Peace and Welfare should be well rewarded for all their care and pains herein And this he doth here in the Text. Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee In which words we have these two parts I. An exhortation or command to pray for the Peace of Jerusalem And II. A promise and assurance of a Blessing upon such as should bear true love thereto and seek the Peace thereof They shall prosper that love thee I. The Exhortation and Precept wherein we have first the Duty that he exhorts others to and that is Prayer secondly the subject matter of this Prayer and that is for Peace and thirdly the place for which he solicits their Prayers and that is for Jerusalem Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem First In exhorting and enjoining them to pray for Jerusalem we may conclude that he requires them to use their utmost endeavours in all lawful ways for the good and happiness of that place and what he means thereby And in exhorting and persuading of them to pray for it he doth thereby mind them that this was the best help and assistance that they could yield towards it that all humane endeavours are but vain and fruitless without the divine Help and Assistance and Protection of Almighty God and that it must be he alone that must protect and advance it And so the Psalmist hath more fully taught us that all the endeavours of Man are to no purpose without the divine Succours and Help of Almighty God Psal 127.1 Except the Lord build the House saith he they labor in vain that build it Except the Lord keep the City the watchman waketh but in vain All proves but vain and lost labor without his Almighty Aid and Defence And saith the Psalmist Psal 124.8 Our help is in the Name of the Lord who made Heaven and Earth And the Psalmist affirmeth him to be the builder of Jerusalem Psal 147.2 The Lord doth build up Jerusalem he gathereth together the Out-casts of Israel And he it is that effecteth and worketh this peace that the Psalmist exhorts others to pray for as we may see Psal 147.12 Praise the Lord O Jerusalem praise thy God O Zion for he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates he hath blessed thy Children within thee He maketh peace in thy borders and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat He it was that thus blessed and preserved Jerusalem and while Judgment and Righteousness were therein he gave assurance that he would defend and protect it in a mighty manner Is 31.4 It was Almighty God that did defend and preserve this beloved City of the Jews and that did fill it with Peace and Plenty and made it to flourish in all kinds of prosperity And to supplicate his divine Goodness in behalf of it in a due and devout manner was the greatest service and assistance that they could yield towards the Good and Welfare thereof But we may conclude that in exhorting and enjoyning them to pray for it he doth also exhort and enjoyn them to give all the help and assistance that they were able towards the Good and Prosperity thereof in all respects That they should not let their helping hand be wanting in any good deed that they were able to do for it Secondly We have here the subject matter of
no hand in such Every one in his own Place and Station should oppose and withstand all Corruptions and sinful Innovations and all things that tend any ways to the Ruin or to disturb the Peace and Weal of the Church and Kingdom And especially are we all to oppose and withstand the Errors and Corruptions of the Church of Rome what we can and to give no way for the introducing of them and the Popish Religion For that Religion I apprehend now to be coming upon us and we Protestants shall be notoriously sinful if we help to bring it in and do not in a mild way oppose it For the Faith and Truth of the Gospel and for the Constitutions and Liturgy of our own Church and for our Laws and Government so far as they are good and agreeable to the blessed Word of God by which we are all to be guided are we to strive and contend and willingly to give way to nothing that shall tend ro the overthrowing of them This the Apostle sheweth that we are to strive for the Faith of the Gospel and the pure Word of God Phil. 1.27 That ye stand fast in one spirit with one mind striving together for the faith of the Gospel And in nothing terrified by your adversaries By no Terror of our Adversaries are we to be moved to depart from the Faith of the Gospel and the blessed Word of God And saith St. Jude ver 3 Beloved when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you That ye should earnestly contend for the Faith which was once dâ—livered to the Saints For there are certain men crept in unawares who were before of old ordained to this condemnation ungodly men turning the Grace of God into lasciviousness And such there are now like to be whose errors and corruptions are to be opposed and withstood by all good and pious Men. And we may see that the Church of Pergamos is commended for standing for the truth of the Gospel and not giving way to be seduced to Apostacy though it were in a time of great danger Rev. 2.13 I know thy works and where thou dwellest even where Satan's seat is and thou holdest fast my Name and hast not denyed my faith even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful Martyr who was slain among you where Satan dwelleth For the pure Word of God and the Truth of the Gospel are we at all times to strive and contend what we can and to stand against all errors and corruptions that are contrary thereto though it should be with great hazard of our Lives And for the good Constitutions and Orders of our own Church and for our own Laws and Government which are agreeable to the blessed Word of God are we to shew some care and zeal and not willingly to give way to have them subverted and overthrown but mildly to oppose all alterations therein that may be destructive to them and to our Peace and Happiness therein The Rechabites are commended for obeying the commandments of Jonadab their Fore-father who had set them certain Laws and Commands and because they would not depart from them Jer. 35.6 And much more then ought we to be zealous for the good Orders and Constitutions of our own Church and the Laws and Government of our own Nation and in a good Christian way to stand up for them and to oppose all attempts that are made to overthrow them And that we may be the more serviceable to our Church and Kingdom and endeavour to prevent all the evil that may befal them we are to oppose the great sins and iniquity of the times what we can that hereby we may endeavour to prevent the Judgments of God from coming upon them For Iniquity when it is grown ripe will be sure to bring some Judgment or other We are to stop the current of all wickedness what we can and to endeavour to reclaim and draw all sinners from their evil ways This we are to do both out of Christian compassion to their own Souls that we might help to save them if it may be and also to prevent such evil and misery as they will help to bring upon a place by their wickedness By all good and lawful ways are we to endeavour to prevent and keep off all evil and misery that may now or at any time befal our Church and Nation Thirdly We are to be grieved and to mourn for all the miseries and calamities that befal our Jerusalem our Church and Kingdom The true Protestant Church among us are we now to esteem as our Jerusalem and to account it as dear to us as our very Lives and for all the evils that befal it are we to be much troubled and perplexed This should be matter of great mourning and lamentation and weeping to us to see our Church brought low and under a cloud and in a desolate and forsaken condition To see the blessed Peace thereof to be removed and taken away and her Enemies triumphing over her this should be sorrow and grief of heart to all her faithful children And now is the time come that all good Protestants are to fall to bitter mourning and weeping For now is the time at hand that the Gentiles are to tread under foot rhe holy City forty and two months Rev. 11.2 Now is the time drawing near that the Beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless Pit will make war against the witnesses of God and overcome them Rev. 11.7 Now I apprehend the time to be at hand that Popery shall prevail over the Protestant Church for three years and an half and this should call us all to great mourning and lamentation Nor is it with dry eyes that I have drawn up these lines And we are to know that our sins are the cause of this misery that is coming upon us and therefere we have the greater reason to mourn We may see that the Jews wept in their Captivity when they thought of the desolate condition of their Jerusalem Psal 137.1 By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down yea we wept when we remembred Zion And the Prophets did much bewail the miseries that befel the Church and People of God Is 22.4 saith the Prophet Therefore said I look away from me I will weep bitterly labor not to comfort me because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people For it is a day of trouble and of treading down and of perplexity by the Lord God of Hosts in the valley of vision breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains And saith the Prophet Jeremiah 4.7 8 The lyon is come up from his thicket and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way he is gone forth from his place to make the land desolate and the cities shall be laid wast without an inhabitant For this gird you with sackcloth lament and howl For the fierce anger of the Lord
is not turned back from us And Jer. 6.26 saith he O daughter of my people gird thee with sackcloth and wallow thy sâ—lf in ashes make thee mourning as for an only son most bitter lamentation for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us To mourning doth he call them upon the sight of the evil that he saw coming upon them And for the great wickedness of his people and the Judgments of God that came upon them for it doth the Prophet lament sore Jer. 9.1 Oh saith he that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people O that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men that I might leave my people and go from them For they be all adulterers an assembly of treacherous men And saith he Jer. 13.16 Give glory to the Lord your God before he cause darkness and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains and while ye look for light he turn it into the shadow of death and make it gross darkness But if ye will not hear it my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride and mine eyes shall weep sore and run down with tears because the Lord's flock is carried away captive While there remained some time to provide for their peace and good he exhorts them to a reformation and to give glory to God before the time of darkness came fully upon them But if they would not hear he tells them that he would sorely bewail their folly and the calamity and misery that would come upon them And this God ordered that they should mourn and weep for the misery that was coming upon them Jer. 9.17 Thus saith the Lord of Hosts consider ye and call for the mourning women that they may come and let them make hast and take up a wailing for us that our eyes may run down with tears and our eye-lids gush out with waters And ver 21. For death is come up into our windows and is entered into our palaces to cut off the children from without and the young men from the streets And saith God to him Jer. 14.17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them let mine eyes run down with tears night and day and let them not cease for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach with a very grievous blow If I go forth into the field then behold the slain with the sword and if I enter into the city then behold them that are sick with famine yea both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not Thus was he to weep before them for their miseries And the Prophet sheweth how Jerusalem wept for the miseries and sorrows that were come upon her Lam. 1.2 She weepeth sore in the night and her tears are on her cheeks among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her all her friends have dealt treacherously with her they are become her enemies And I wish that the Sons of the Protestant Church would not now so deal with her and become her enemies And ver 15 The Lord hath troden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men The Lord hath troden the virgin the daughter of Judah as in a wine press For these things I weep mine eye mine eye runneth down with water because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me my children are desolate because the enemy prevaileth Zion spreadeth forth her hands and there is none to comfort her the Lord hath commanded concerning Jacob that his adversaries should be round about him Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them Thus doth he bring in Jerusalem bewailing her self and doth much lament her desolate condition And saith he Lam. 2.11 Mine eyes do fail with tears my bowels are troubled my liver is poured upon the earth for the destruction of the daughter of my people because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city In this extraordinary manner was he troubled and did sorely weep for the great misery that came upon them and their beloved Jerusalem And the Prophet Amos rebukes it as a crime in some of them that they were not grieved for the affliction of the People of God Amos 6.1 Wo to them that are at ease in Zion And ver 6. That drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the chief ointments But tbey are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph And our blessed Lord himself wept over Jerusalem for the misery and destruction that was coming upon it Lu. 19.41 And when he was come near he behold the city and wept over it saying if thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong unto thy Peace but now they are hid from thine eyes For the days shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and keep thee in on every side and shall lay thee even with the ground Thus sorrowful did our blessed Lord shew himself for the great misery and destruction that was coming upon this City for the great wickedness thereof and did most earnestly desire that they would amend and mind the things that belonged to their Peace before it was too late and was greatly troubled at their carnal security that they were so unconcerned in this weighty matter By these and such places we see that it is our duty to be troubled and to mourn and weep for all the publick Calamities and Miseries that befal our Church and Nation To see men to grow cold in their Zeal and Devotion towards Almighty Gâ—d and to have little or no heart towards their duty and seâ—vice towards him To see the house of God to be deserted and forsaken and his Ordinances and Worship to be slighted and neglected To see the Church rent and torn to pieces with schisms and divisions and to see mens zeal all spent a wrong way in heats against one another To understand that Popery is like to prevail over the Protestant Church for three years and an half and that the Popish Gentiles are like to tread under foot the holy City the true Church of Christ for forty and two months To see wickedness and impiety to abound every where in the Nation and Love and Goodness to be withdrawn to see the Kingdom divided into Factions and Parties and to know as our Lord hath told us that a Kingdom so divided cannot stand To see that our sins and iniquities are grown great and to know that wrath and judgments will be sure to be the issue and consequence of them These things must needs be matter of sorrow and grief to all good men and call them to lamentation and mourning to see the Peace of our Church and Kingdom in such a manner to lie a bleeding