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A30058 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 ... Bull, Digby. 1695 (1695) Wing B5409; ESTC R37486 34,998 41

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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 d●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