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duty_n	day_n	holy_a	word_n	2,351	5	4.2743	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79762	A solemne and seasonable warning to the noblemen, barons, gentlemen, burrows, ministers, and commons of Scotland: as also to the Scotish armies without and within that kingdom. From the Generall Assembly, 12 Feb. 1645. And the humble remonstrance of the aforesaid Assembly to the King, 13. Feb. 1645.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly.; Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Remonstrance of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland to His Majestie. aut	1645 (1645)	Wing C4259H; Thomason E293_25; ESTC R200167	12,823	16

the Standard against him from that day forward the Waters of their Deluge did decrease And for our part our Forces sent into that Kingdom in pursuance of that Covenant have been so mercifully and manifestly assisted and blessed from Heaven though in the mids of many dangers and distresses and much want and hardship and have been so far instrumentall to the foyling and scattering of two principall Armies First the Marquesse of Newcastle his Army And afterward Prince Ruperts and his together And to the reducing of two strong Cities York and Newcastle that we have what to answer the Enemy that reproacheth us concerning that Businesse and that which may make iniquity it self to stop her mouth But which is more unto us than all Victories or whatsomever temporall Blessing The Reformation of Religion in England and Uniformity therein between both Kingdoms a principall end of that Covenant is so far advanced that the English Service-Book with the Holy-dayes and many other Ceremonies contained in it together with the Prelacy the fountain of all these are abolished and taken away by Ordinance of Parliament and a Directory for the Worship of God in all the three Kingdoms agreed upon in the Assemblies and in the Parliaments of both Kingdoms without a contrary voice in either the Government of the Kirk by Congregationall Elderships Classicall Presbyteries Provinciall and Nationall Assemblies is agreed upon by the Assembly of Divines at Westminster which is also voted and concluded in both Houses of the Parliament of England And what is yet remaining of the intended Uniformitie is in a good way So that let our Lot fall in other things as it may the Will of the Lord be done In this we rejoyce and will rejoyce that our Lord Jesus Christ is no loser but a Conquerour that his Ordinances take place that his Cause prevaileth and the work of purging and building his Temple goeth forward and not backward Neither yet are we so to understand the voice of the rod which lyeth heavy upon us as if the Lords meaning were to pluck up what he hath planted and to pull down what he hath builded in this Kingdom to have no more pleasure in us to remove our Candlestick and to take his Kingdom from us nay before that our God cast us off and the glory depart from Israel let him rather consume us by the Sword and the Famine and the Pestilence so that he will but keep his own great Name from reproach and blasphemy and own us as his people in Convenant with him But now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing we will beleeve that we shall yet see the goodnesse of the Lord in the Land of the living We will not cast a way our confidence of a blessed Peace of the removing of the scourge and casting it in the Fire when the Lord hath by it performed his whole Work upon mount Sion and Jerusalem much more will we be confident of the continuance of the blessings of the Gospel that glory may dwell in our Land This is the day of Jacobs trouble but he shall be saved out of it And the time is coming when a new Song shall be put in our mouths and we shall say This is our God we have waited for him and he hath saved us Though the Lord smite us it is the hand of a Father not of an Enemy he is not consuming us but refining us that we may come forth as Gold out of the Fire We are troubled on every side yet not distressed we are perplexed but not in despaire persecuted but not forsaken cast down but not destroyed We know assuredly there is more mercy in emptying us from Vessell to Vessell than in suffering us to settle on our Lees whereby our taste should remain in us and our sent not be changed These things premised we come to the true langauge of this heavy judgement and to the reall procuring causes thereof For the transgression of Jacob is all this and for the sins of the house of Israel God is hereby shewing to great and small in this Land their work and their transgression that they have exceeded He openeth also their eare to discipline and commandeth that they return from iniquity We leave every Congregation in the Land every Family in every Congregation and every Person in every Family to examine their own hearts and wayes and to mourn for Congregationall Domesticall and Personall sins Cursed shall they be who have added fuell to the fire and now bring no water to extinguish it who had a great hand in the provocation and bear no part in the humiliation Let every one commune with his own conscience and repent of his even his wickednesse and say What have I done We shall here touch onely the Nationall sins or at least more publike ones than those of a Family or Congregation which we also intend for chief causes of a publike Fast and Humiliation If among our Nobles Gentry and Barons there have been some studying their own private interests more than the publike and Seeking their own things more than the things of Christ or oppressing and defranding the poorer sort and the needy because it was in the power of their hand and if among our Ministry there have been divers Time-servers Who have not renounced the hidden things of dishonesty whose hearts have not been right before God nor stedfast in his Covenant who have been secretly haters of the Power of Godlinesse and of Mortification shall not God search all this out who will bring to light the hidden things of darknesse and will make manifest the Councels of the hearts In these also leaving all men to a judging and searching of themselves there are many other provocations which are apparent in all or many of this Nation from which though they wash with nitre and take much sope yet they cannot make themselves clean Because of these the Land mourneth and at these the Sword striketh As first the contempt neglect and dis-esteem of the glorious Gospel our unbelief unfruitfulnesse lukewarmnesse formality and hardnesse of heart under all the means of Grace our not receiving of Christ in our hearts nor seeking to know him and glorifie him in all his Offices The power of Godlinesse is hated and mocked by many to this day and by the better sort too much neglected and many Christian duties are not minded as The not speaking of our own words nor finding of our own pleasure upon the Lords day Holy and edifying conference both on that day and at other occasions The instructing admonishing comforting and rebuking one another as Divine Providence ministreth occasion In many Families almost no knowledge nor worship of God to be found yea there are among the Ministers who have strengthened the hearts and hands of the profane more than of the godly and have not taken heed to the Ministry which they have received of the Lord to fulfill it Next God hath sent the Sword to