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A87215	A treaty of pacification. Or Conditions of peace between God and man. / By H.I.	Isaacson, Henry, 1581-1654.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1642 (1642)	Wing I1061; Thomason E1113_6; ESTC R202596	35,424	106

lyeth hard upon us 86.6 and thou hast vexed us with all thy stormes Thy wrathfull displeasure goeth over us 16. and the feare of thee hath undone us Thou hast given us over to the sword and art wrath with thine inheritance 〈…〉 Thou feedest us with the bread of teares ●0 5 and givest us plenty of teares to drinke Thou hast made us a very strife to our neighbours 6. and our enemies laugh us to soorne O Lord we acknowledge that all this is come upon us Psr● 9 1● 〈◊〉 13.117 for our evill deeds and that thou ô Lord art righteous and thy judgements upright Because we have not hearkned to thy word Ier. ● ●7 nor to thy law but reiected it thou hast brought evill upon this Nation We have bin disobedient and rebelled against thee N● 9.16 and cast thy Law behind our backs We have sinned 〈◊〉 7.10 what shall we doe to thee ô thou preserver of men Why hast thou set us as a marke against thee so that we are burdens to our selves Lord we cover not our transgressions with Adam Iob 11.13 by hiding our iniquities But we abhorre our selves Ps 41. ● 41.4 and earnestly repent and say Lord be mercifull to us hea●e our souls for we have sinned against thee Take notice ô Lord of our misery Out of the deep of misery and affliction have we called to thee ô Lord 130 1● Lord heare our voyce Oh let thine eares consider the voyce of our complaint 2. Enter not into iudgement we humbly pray thee with thy servants ô Lord for in thy sight shall no man living be iustified 143. ● The Heavens are not cleane in thy sight Iob 15 15. How much more abhominable and filthy is man 16. that drinkes iniquity like water Remember ô Lord the infirmitie of our nature Consider that of our selves we are but weake Isal 6● That we are but flesh 78.39 a wind that passeth away and commeth not againe Thou knowest ô Lord whereof we are made ●03 14. thou remembrest that we are but dust That our dayes are but as grasse and as a flower of the field 15● 16. over which as soone as the wind goeth it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more Remember also O Lord thine own nature That thou art full of compassion 8. and mercy long suffering and of great goodnesse That thou canst not be alwayes chiding ● nor keepe thine anger for ever That thou are good and gracious 〈…〉 5. and of great mercy to all that call upon thee That thou art loving to every man Psal 145 5● and that thy mercy is over all thy works That when thou punishest Esa 28.21 it is not thy proper worke and that thine own worke is mercy Remember ô Lord thy Name The Lord the Lord God Exod 34.6 mercifull and gracious long suffering and abundant in goodnesse and truth That thou art a Father of Mercies 2 Cor. 1.3 Remember thy Sons Name That he is called the Lamb Ioh 1.26 that taketh away the sins of the World That he is called the Redeemer of the World Iob 19 25. Psal● 9 14. ●itus 2 14. That he is called the Saviour of the World Ioh 4.42 That he is called our Mediater and Advocate 1 Tim 2 ● 1 Ioh 2.2 Remember the Name of the Holy Spirit That he is called a Comforter Ioh 16.7 Help us therefore ô God of our salvation Psal 7● 9 for the glory of thy Name Oh deliver us and be mercifull to our sins for thy Names Sake We are called by thy Name 〈◊〉 4.9 ô Lord leave us not Remember ô Lord thy Promise That if a sinner repent and turne from his transgressions Ezek. 18.30 his iniquity shall not be his ruine That when we call upon thee Psal 50.15 in time of trouble thou wilt deliver us Lord Psal 86 7.10●●● we call upon thee in a day of trouble Hide not thy face from us in the day of trouble encline thine eare unto us in the day when we call answer us speedily Remember Lord that we are the work of thine hands Thou art our Father Esa 64.8 We are the clay and thou the Potter and we are all the worke of thy hands Be not wrath very sore ô Lord neither remember iniquity for ever Behold see we beseech thee we are all thy people Forsake not ô Lord the worke of thine owne hands Ps 138. ● And we are not only thy handiworke Gen. 1. ●● Col 3 ●● but the Image of thy Countenance Deface it not ô Lord. We are Members of thy Mysticall Body 1 Co●●15 ● 1.27 O Lord we beseech thee cut us not off We are the price of thy Sonnes Blood 1 Cor 6 20. 1 Pet. 1. ●9 We are bought with a price We were not redeemed with silver and gold but with the pretious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot O Lord undervalue it not Thou ô Lord hast an especiall property in us Ps 119.94 1 6 16. cast us not off We are thine ô save us We are thy servants Esa 64. ● We are all thy people Mar 4.38 Esa 63.16 Lord carest thou not that we perish Though we be undutifull children yet are we thy Children Doubtlesse thou art our Father Thou art our Father ô Lord. Though wee have lost the duty of children Aug. yet thou hast not lost the love of a Father Behold ô Lord we repent of our backslidings Sorrow is continually before us for them Isa 38.17.18 We confesse our wickednesse and are heartily sorry for them and cry Lam 5 16. woe unto us that we have sinned And we know that a broken spirit is a sacrifice to thee Psal 51 19. a broken and contrite heart ô Lord thou wilt not despise It hath bin thy practise to shew mercy Call to remembrance ô Lord Psal 25 5. thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesse which have bin ever of old Thou hast bin our refuge from one generation to another 90 1 And we humbly pray thee that as thou hast bin our succour 27 11. leave us not now neither forsake us ô God of our salvation But rather 80 3. turne us againe ô God shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole Turne us ô God our Saviour 85.4 and let thine anger cease from us Shew some good token upon us for good 86 17. that they which hate us may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen and comfortea us O satisfie us with thy Mercy 90 14. and that soone so shall we reioyce and be glad all the dayes of our life In the multitude of the sorrowes that are in our hearts let thy comforts ô Lord refresh our soules Another Have mercy upon us ô God

Miserere mei Deus Flevit amarè A TREATY of PACIFICATION OR CONDITIONS of PEACE BETWEEN GOD AND MAN Ps 51.17 A broken contrite Heart ô God thou wilt not despise By H. J. 1642. London Printed for R. Thral W. M. sculp TO THE CHRISTIAN READER IN Multiloquio non deest peccatum Prov. 10.19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sinne said the Wiseman long since and what he said of Talking may we not apply to Printing If Mendacium a Lye be sinne as I trust none will deny though it be officiosum or jocosum the officious or jeasting Lye then we may without offence conclude that as some now licentiously assume to themselves in much printing there wanteth not sinne So many Bookes I am loath to call them Pamphlets issue daily from the Presse without Authority nay point blanke against Authority and they so stuffed with untruths as though the Authors thinke it lawfull to draw sinne with cartropes Esa 5. ●8 Well to this multitude of Bookes or Pamphlets call them what you please I have adventured to beare the retorting of that fault I found in others and to adde one more to the number as fitting for the time and I am sure of a more necessary and weighty import and consequence and in a more orderly way then many of them The subject of it is Repentance a harsh and unpleasing thing I confesse to flesh and bloud but for all that it is unum necessarium one of the most necessary duties to be urged Luk. 1● 4● and which condu●eth most to our good at this time especially when the sword not only hangeth over our heads but hath begun to avenge the quarrell of the LORD in some part of this Land and how soon it may be felt amongst us and the other part of our Kingdome we know not And this not the sword of an Adversary from without but which is a worse judgement from within amongst our selves by Civill or rather as S. Augustine calls it uncivill Warre and dissention Mala quae quantò interiora sunt tantò miseriora Evills are the more miserable by how much they grow the more inward saith he If it were but the sword from abroad it were sufficient to awake and rouze us from the dead sleepe of sinne wherein we have so long lyen and to stirre us up to this duty there is as well Danger as incitement enough in that For the Heathen Orator saith of it non solum adventus Belli Gid Pr●l Manil. c. Not only Warre it selfe when it comes but the very feare of it brings calamity enough with it For when the Enemies Forces are not farre off though they enter not at all yet people forsake their Cattell the Husbandman deserts his Tillage and the Merchant his commerce and Traffique But come we to consider Civill and domestique Warre and wee shall find hee calls that Bellum perniciocissimum the most pernecious Warre of all other Our Saviour tells us in few words the effects of it Mar. 3.34 If a Kingdome be divided within it selfe that Kingdome cannot stand dissention will bring it to utter ruine if not speedily prevented For where Civill Warre rageth there are not only that agmen malorum troup of miseries attending it that follow a Warre which comes from abroad but farre more For besides which is common to the other as Augustine describes them Rapti Virgines De Ci●● Dei. c. Virgins are ravished and all modesty violated Children snatcht from the armes of their Parents Matrons put to whatsoever the Souldier pleaseth Churches spoiled Houses plundered slaughter burning and all havocke committed and the end and conclusion of it is that every place is filled with bloud lamentations and dead carcases Perit cum divite pauper the rich and poore both perish To these we may adde one thing which the other is free from that in a Civill Warre the Father fights against the Sonne and perhaps kills him and the Sonne doth the like to the Father the Servant to the Master nor have Friends or Kinsmen any respect to friendship or kindred Hee that considers these evills which accompany VVarre and more especially Civ●●l VVarre so great and horrid must needs confesse VVarre to be flagellum Dei the scourge of God upon a Land but he that thinks not upon it without grief and horrour of mind De Civ Dei is more miserable saith Augustine because hee hath lost the sense of a man Horret animus said Ierome in the like case temporum nostrorum ruinas prosequi It drives my mind into horrour to prosecute and declare the miseries of our times and foelix qui haec non vidit foelix qui haec nonaudit saith he happy is he that neither sees nor heares any of these things And indeed the danger being so sensible and the cause our horrid sinnes being so palpable who is so stupid that will not apply himselfe to the cure which is no way to be effected but by true and hearty repentance We shall never remove this heavy judgement but by accepting these Conditions of Peace now offered to us by GOD. Regnum ruit tamen cervix nostra non flectitur Is the kingdome in danger of ruine and yet wee continue stiffe-necked Offensum sentimus Deum nec placamus Doe we perceive that God is offended with us and shall we not goe about to pacifie him God forbid If we do not destruction and confusion must necessarily and speedily follow God hath spared and expected us long to shew mercy upon us if we turne not to him he will at last powre the full viols of his wrath upon us Ap●● 21.9 his seven plagues mentioned in the Revelation Quanquam sera ●amen certa Numinis vindicta Divine vengeance is sure though it be slow The Heathen man could say Lento gradu ad vindictam sui divina procellitira Val Max. tarditatemque supplicij gravitate compensat GODS anger strikes slowly in revenge of our sinnes against him but it remompenceth the slownesse of it with the grievousnesse of the punishment And this fals upon us but as wee deserve For subitò tollitur qui diu tolleratur Hee and that Land too will suddenly be destroyed that makes no good use of GODS long forbearance and expectance It is reported by Josephus that besides many prodigies which appeared in Jerusalem before the last destruction of it one Jesus sonne of Ananias a Country fellow D●bell Jud ●7 c. 12. for a long space even before the warre of Titus went up and downe the streets crying Vae Jerosolymis woe to Jerusalem but he was scorned yea and punished as a Boutefeau for it you know what became of that City We find that the old world had a 120. yeares given for Repentance and it was neglected but what followed The floud drowned them all Gen. 6. except Noah the Preacher of Repentance and his Family And we reade that Jonas cryed in the streets

danger of death 2 Reg 20.5 prayed and God tells him he had heard his prayer Johoaz being in danger of being over-run by Hazael K. of Assyria prayed and the Lord delivered him Daniel upon danger approaching 13 4. Dan. 6.10 prayed three times a day and the Lord heard him Jonas being in danger in the Whales belly Ion 2.1.10 in the sea prayed and God caused the fish to cast him out upon the dry land Acts 16.25 Paul and Silas being in prison prayed to the Lord and he forthwith delivered them David saith God will regard the prayer of the destitute of all help and not despise their prayer Ps ●●2 ●7 And this is the second benefit that comes by Prayer Now for the place of Prayer though it be to be made in omni loco as the Apostle enjoynes every where as by Daniel in the den Job upon the dunghill Jonas in the Sea our Saviour in a garden and Paul and Silas in prison yet is this duty more especially appropriated to two places I. Publick 2. Private 1. The Publick place is the great Congregation My praise saith David shall be of thee in the great Congregation ●sal 22.25.68.26 I will pay my vowes before them that feare thee And blesse ye God in the great Congregation 29.9.48.9 Which he expounds in other places to be the Church or Temple And which the Prophet tells us that God will have called Domus Orationis the house of Prayer Ecclesia est singularis fidelium uniuscujusque civitatis Congregatio saith Hugo Esa 56.7 There in deed it is that God desireth especially to be prayed too and where by the unity of many soules in prayer the greatest blessings may be soonest obteyned For publick prayer is compared to a storme of ha●le pjercing the Heavens and the Fathers say that the Amen in the Primitive Church was like a clap of thunder And thereupon S. Ambrose saith De Poe●●● Multi minimi dum congregantur unamines sunt magni multorum preces impossibile est contemni Many little ones being met unanimously become great and it is impossible that the prayers of many should be despised 2. Private is twofold 1. In a mans Family and every Pater familias father of a Family is bound not only to see that those which are under his government do frequent publike assemblies to performe the duties before mentioned but to see them do it in his private house also He must say with Ioshua Iosh 24.15 Ego domus mea I and my house will pray to the Lord. And at this exercise Christ hath promised his assistance Mat. 18. ●0 Where two or three are gathered together in my Name there am I in the midst of them The second is in Cubiculo Prayer must be in a mans closet 1. Which is either litterally taken as when a man retireth himselfe to pray to the Lord in some private place without disturbance 2. Or as the Fathers glosse upon that Text when thou prayest enter into thy closet Quae sunt ista cubicula Mat 6 6. c. what are these closets but the hearts of men according to that of the Psalmist Ps 4.4 Aug de s●r Dommi in monte Commune with your owne heart upon your bed And Ambrose saith Intellige cubiculum non inclusum parietibus c. You are to understand by the word closet not that which is enclosed with wals De Cain Abel c. 8. and wherin thy body is shut but the closet that is within thee wherin are inclosed thy thoughts This thy closet is every where with thee and is every where secret the searcher whereof is God and no other Now that our Prayers may be the more prevalent either in publike or private it is necessary that we observe these Rules 1. Our prayers must be offered to God the Father in the name and mediation and for the merits of his beloved Sonne Christ Jesus Mat. 3. ●7 Esa 41 1. Eph 3.11 in Whom he is well-pleased His elect in whom his soule delighteth In and by whom we have boldnes and accesse to the throne of grace Iob. 16.23 And whatsoever we shall aske the Father in his name he will give it us 2. They must be hearty from the heart and soul as Davids did Vnto thee ô Lord doe I lift up my soule Psal 25 1● and as he counsels others ye people powre out your hearts before him Psal 62.8 3. They must be offered with all humility like to the prayers of Abraham Gen 18.17.32.10 Behold I have taken upon me to speake unto the Lord which am but dust and ashes and to that of Jacob Non sum dignus I am not worthy the least of all thy mercies and to that of the Publican that would not lift up his eyes to Heaven Luc. 18.13 but stood à longè a far off and smote his brest saying God be mercifull to me a sinner 4. Fourthly with fervency For Quanto graviori miseria premitur tanto orationi insist●re ardentiùs debemus Greg. Mor. By how much the more grievously we are afflicted so much the more ardently we should betake our selves to prayer As the case stands with us Thess ● 17 we must pray without ceasing 5. Lastly we must offer our prayers to God only Chrysostome upon the words of the woman of Canaan to Christ Lord have mercy upon me saith vide prudentiam mul●eris Non regat Jacobum c. Observe the womans wisdome She prayeth not to James nor doth she intreat Iohn nor goes she to Peter nor any of the Apostles she fought no Mediatour for her suit So much briefly for the rules or directions in prayers Seeing then that in the first place Esa 59.2 our iniquities have separated between God and us Let us follow the Prophets counsell and take words unto us and turne to the Lord by Prayer and say unto him O Lord take away all iniquity Hos 14.3 and receive us graciously 2. And secondly in as much as this separation hath brought a just judgement upon us let us humble our selvs with another Prophet and say O Lord Dan 9.4 the great and dreadfull God keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him and keepe his Commandements We have sinned 5. and have committed iniquity and have done wickedly and have rebelled by departing from thy precepts and judgements Neither have we hearkned to thy servants the Prophets 6. which spake in thy name to our Kings our Princes and our Fathers and all the people of the Land O Lord to us belongeth confusion of face 8. because we have sinned against thee To the Lord belong mercies and forgivenesses Dan● 9.9 though we have rebelled against him O Lord 16. according to all thy righteousnesse we beseech thee let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from this Land which is called by thy