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A85709	A patheticall perswasion to pray for publick peace: propounded in a sermon preached in the cathedrall church of Saint Paul, Octob. 2. 1642. By Matthew Griffith, rector of S. Mary Magdalens neer Old-Fishstreet, London.	Griffith, Matthew, 1599?-1665.	1642 (1642)	Wing G2016; Thomason E122_17; ESTC R4434	34,095	58

visages of death deform'd with wounds the impotent wife hanging with tears running from blood-shed eyes about her arm'd husband ambitious to die with him with whom she may no longer live God be thanked we never saw the amaz'd runnings to and fro of such as would fain escape if they knew how and the furious pace of a bloody Victour the rifling of houses for spoil and every villain posting with his load and ready to cut each others throat for the booty they pluck't out of ours In a word it is palpable by our fool-hardy forwardnesse to and frowardnesse in embroiling our selves that we never yet knew how cruell an adversary and how burthensome an helper is in War Look round about you and see the Christian world in an uprore and in arms and a considerable part thereof even in the ashes whilst this our Britain like the Centre stood unmov'd and 't is hard to say whether other Nations hitherto have more envy'd or admir'd us For which our so long and lovely peace and plenty Oh what just cause we all have to be most thankfull to the God of peace and do we now re-pay him with repining For want of a forreign enemy to invade us must we needs ransack and ruine our selves Bellageri placuit nullos habitura tryumphos Oh le ts take heed that Gods mercie being too too much abus'd turn not at last to fury and that he deal not with us being so provok'd by us as he did with the stiff-necked and unthankfull Jews Psa 78.30 when that which went in at their mouths he fetch'd out at their nostrils Many Nations have forfeited as great blessings as those in which we now so much confide and glory by their insolencie and ingratitude And therefore say my beloved Brethren and countrymen if in such a time of siding you can speak without prejudice and partiality whether it be not now high time to fall close to prayer and practise for the better preserving and if it may be perpetuating the peace of our Jerusalem But some head-strong brain-sick Sectary will say perchance as Judas did in another case Ad quid perditio haec Mar. 14 3. Why is this waste What need we be such importunate suitors to God for peace seeing we already enjoy it I wish we did Yea grant we do yet since as the Jews did of their Manna when they cryed Arescit anima nostra we have surfeited of this heavenly food and begin to nauseate it I must tell you that without prayer to God we do but flatter and deceive our selves in presuming upon the security of our peace There can be nothing to which I am naturally more averse then to prophecie evil to this ancient and honorable City in which I was born and bred and have spent the greatest part of my life with so much comfort and respect from the better sort as a poor Minister is capable of and yet in the generall you shall give me leave to tell you that the most flourishing Cities and Countries have their Period as Zenophon truly observes in his Panegyricall Oration of Agesilaiis That there never was any State be it Monarchy Aristocracy Democracy or other kinde of Government but at one time or other it was overthrown and came to an end either through invasion from abroad or sedition and innovation at home And therefore however I will not take up Balaams parable touching the Kenites against this our Mother City Num. 24.21 strong is thy dwelling place and thou puttest thy neast in a rock neverthelesse the Kenite shall be wasted c. Yet as our Saviour himself riding in triumph into Jerusalem the people spreading their garments and crying Hosanna to the son of David Hosanna in the highest when he drew neer to Jerusalem and beheld that City forseeing the heavy judgement which hung over it he wept and said Luke 19. 36-41 If thou hadst known at least in that thy day the things which belong to thy peace but now are they hid from thine eyes c. So I beholding this Metropolis our Jerusalem with the eye of tender pity and compassion such as is due from a true son to his dear mother and premeditating with my self the wofull miseries which our present distraction and division may ere we be aware bring upon us I wish with all my soule that we did know in these yet Halcyon dayes of our peace the things which do tend to the preservation of the same But I fear I fear that either we do not clearly see and know them being in the just judgement of God now hid from our eyes or if we do both see and know them yet notwithstanding all the preparations we make to prevent them I feare least what we take as physick will prove our poyson And I can give no other reason of our present security confidence and contempt save that remarkable observation of Livie in the fift of his Decads where he asserts That Urgentibus rempublicam fatis salutares Dei hominum admonitiones spernuntur when the destruction of a Common-wealth is destin'd then the wholesome warnings both of God and Man are set at naught But Oh may that never be true of us which Demades once objected to the Athenians by way of reproach viz. That they would never vouchsafe to treat or hear of peace but in Mourning-gowns viz. after the loss e of their friends and fortunes in the Wars My firm hope is and my earnest prayer shall be that God in mercie would turn away this heavie judgement from us that so we may not by wofull experience of the more then many mischiefs of a Civil War be forc'd to acknowledge that we too too much slighted vilified and under-valued the inestimable benefit of peace but rather that in these Criticall dayes of our yet surviving peace we may all have the grace prudently to foresee and piously to pursue such lawfull courses and warrantable means as do make for the maintenance of the same And forasmuch as the principall pillars of our peace are the King and the Parliament therefore let us put up our prayers to God for both First I say let us pray for the long life and happy Reign of His Majestie for if the Jews in the first Chapter of Baruch were commanded by God Baruc. 1.11 to pray for Nabuchadonosor and Balthasar his son which kept them in slavery and captivity then great reason have we to pray for the peaceable and prosperous Reign of our gracious King CHARLS who keeps us from temporall and spirituall thraldom that his dayes on earth may be as the dayes of heaven And next le ts pray for the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that the spirit of the Lord may rest upon them as it is in the 11 Chapter of Isaiah even the spirit of wisdom Isa 11.8 and understanding the spirit of counsell and might the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord Ex. 18.21