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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

in the sacred Scriptures Evil was like to befal all such as were enemies to the antient Jerusalem of the Jews as we may see A heavy imprecation doth the Psalmist utter against such Psal 129.5 Let them all be confounded and turned back saith he that hate Zion Let them be as the grass upon the house tops which withereth before it groweth up And such imprecations are not to be looked upon as private wishes only but as dictates of the Spirit of God And saith the Psalmist Ps 137.7 Remember O Lord the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem who said Rase rase it even to the foundation thereof O daughter of Babylon who art to be destroyed happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones Destruction was like to be to them though God suffered them a while to afflict his people for their sins and wickedness And saith the Prophet Isaiah 29.8 It shall even be as when a hungry man dreameth and behold he eateth but he awaketh and his soul is empty or as when a thirsty man dreameth and behold he drinketh but he awaketh and behold he is faint and his soul hath appetite So shall the multitude of all Nations be that fight against mount Zion And saith God by the Prophet Zechariah 12.9 And it shall come to pass in that day that I will seek to destroy all the Nations that came against Jerusalem And Zec. 14.12 And this shall be the plague saith the Prophet wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet and their eyes shall consume away in their holes and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth Such destruction and misery was like to come upon the enemies of Jerusalem And from these places we may be assured that Wo and Misery is like to befal all such as do any injury and wrong to the Christian Jerusalem And we read in the Revelation of fire coming down from God and devouring those that compassed the Camp of the Saints and the beloved City about Rev. 20.8 9. And shall go out that is Satan shall go out to deceive the Nations which are in the four quarters of the earth Gog and Magog to gather them together to battel the number of whom is as the sand of the sea And they went up on the breadth of the earth and compassed the Camp of the Saints about and the beloved city and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them Destruction is like to be the reward of all such as seek to destroy the beloved City and Church of God And our blessed Saviour told St. Paul that in persecuting the Church he persecuted him and let him know that in so doing he should meet with sharp service and has let us know what a heavy doom is like to light upon such as offend and wrong any of his little ones that believe in him as I have shewed before And from these and such places we may fully conclude that wo and misery is like to be their reward now that do any injury and wrong to the Church of Christ or to any of his true and faithful Servants A most blessed thing it is to love and to do good to the christian Jerusalem the true Church of Christ and will be sure to be well taken and well rewarded But the contrary to do wrong and injury thereto is very offensive to Almighty God and is like to be most severely punished by him And now to draw to a conclusion Seeing it will be such accepable Service to God to seek the Good and Welfare of the Church and to pray for it and to do what good we can thereto and he will be sure abundantly to recompence all such service But that he will be highly displeased with all such as do any injury and harm to his Church and Servants and doth shew that he will most severely punish them Let us from hence be warned not to offend herein and have a great care that we help not to pull down and destroy the Protestant Church for those that do so must expect the Curse of God to come upon them and that the dreadful Wo which is at hand will sweep them away Let us have a care that we put not our hand nor our heart to any thing that shall be prejudicial thereto That we no ways disturb the Peace of our Church and do no hurt thereto nor to any of the true Servants of God But let us shew all the acts of love and kindness thereto that we can Let us now shew our selves faithful Children of the Protestant Church and resolve by God's blessed help to live and dy with her though it should be at the Stake Let us now make earnest supplication to Almighty God for the Peace and Good of our Jerusalem the Protestant Church that it may now and at all times be defended from the Enemies thereof and that they may not now so far prevail over it as to root it out and destroy it but that his watchful Providence and the Light of his Countenance may now in an extraordinary manner attend our Church and all the faithful Members thereof in this sad and dark time that is coming upon them And as the Prophet exhorteth the faithful Is 62.7 let us g●ve ●im no rest till he establish and till he make our Jerusalem a praise in the earth Let us do all the good offices thereto that we can and give all the assistance and help to it in a righteous way that may be and think all our care and pains well bestowed about it and to our own advantage too And let us not be unmindful to pray for all the distressed Members of the Church of Christ whensoever and wheresoever we understand that they are in any afflicted and suffering condition That he who is the Father of Mercies would be gracious to them and send them help and comfort and make his face to shine upon them It is the Apostle's exhortation Eph. 6.18 that we should make supplication for all Saints and especially then should we make supplication for all such as shall at any time be in distress And according to our ability we are to communicate to and relieve all the distressed Members of the Church at all times especially of Persecution and when their needs call the most of all for our help and it is in our power to succour and help them This is abundantly shewed in the new Testament and those that do so shall be highly rewarded as I have shewed before And we may see that good Obadiah took an hundred of the Lord's Prophets and fed them by fifty in a cave where he had hid them that Jezebel might not put them to death when she sought the Life of the true Servants of God and persecuted them 1 Kings 18.13 And hereby are we taught to do all such like pious acts to any of the Members of Christ's Church and of the true Servants of God and let us not be wanting herein whensoever we shall see any such opportunities of doing good to any distressed Members of the Church of God Let us have our hearts bent towards the Christian Jerusalem and the Protestant Church among us and do all the pious acts for it that we can and then we may hope that the blessing of God will come upon us and that we shall be well rewarded for so doing Then we may call upon God with good Nehemiah 5.19 and say as he doth Think upon me my God for good according to all that I have done for this people and then we may confidently expect that he will hear our voice and grant our desires and abundantly recompence all that we shall have done herein FINIS

is not turned back from us And Jer. 6.26 saith he O daughter of my people gird thee with sackcloth and wallow thy s●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 G●d and to have little or no heart towards their duty and se●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