The covenant acknowledged by an English Covenanter, and the manifested wants of the common prayer, or divine service, formerly used, thought the fittest for publique worship by one vvhose hearty desires are presented to all the lovers of peace and truth in these nations, and shall be the prayers of a wel-wisher to both, and a very much obliged servant to all the promoters of this just cause, E.M., Mason.
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The covenant acknowledged by an English Covenanter, and the manifested wants of the common prayer, or divine service, formerly used, thought the fittest for publique worship by one vvhose hearty desires are presented to all the lovers of peace and truth in these nations, and shall be the prayers of a wel-wisher to both, and a very much obliged servant to all the promoters of this just cause, E.M., Mason.
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THE
COVENANT
Acknowledged
by
an
English
Covenanter
:
AND
The
manifested
wants
of
the
Common
Prayer
,
or
Divine
Service
,
formerly
used
,
thought
the
fittest
for
Publique
Worship
,
by
one
,
VVhose
hearty
desires
are
presented
to
all
the
Lovers
of
Peace
and
Truth
in
these
Nations
:
AND
Shall
be
the
Prayers
of
a
Wel-wisher
to
both
,
and
a
very
much
obliged
Servant
to
all
the
Promoters
of
this
Just
Cause
,
E.
M.
Mason
.
LONDON
,
Printed
for
JOHN
MARRIOT
,
and
are
to
be
sold
in
Fetter-lane
,
next
doore
to
the
Golden
Faulcon
.
1660.
To
the
moderate
Reader
or
others
,
whose
chance
it
may
be
to
meet
with
these
few
leaves
following
.
I
Am
perswaded
that
some
men
will
be
offended
with
me
because
I
should
appear
upon
Paper
,
and
I
desire
to
give
them
some
of
my
weak
reasons
in
way
of
satisfaction
;
as
being
an
engaged
Covenanter
,
who
oftentimes
have
had
some
sad
reflections
upon
my
Spirit
,
for
being
so
silent
thorow
fear
,
whether
it
did
not
make
me
,
and
divers
others
,
accessary
to
the
Death
and
Bloud
of
the
late
King
;
which
thing
I
ever
abhorred
in
my
thoughts
,
he
being
Gods
Vicegerent
,
and
by
him
set
over
us
,
and
by
him
alone
to
be
judged
;
who
by
a
poor
ague
or
grief
of
his
distressed
heart
could
have
silenced
him
,
but
left
to
try
us
Covenanters
;
and
also
having
protested
to
God
with
the
rest
of
the
Nation
,
in
a
solemne
League
and
Covenant
,
not
to
diminish
his
just
Power
and
Greatness
,
much
less
his
Life
;
and
with
it
such
a
destruction
both
of
Church
and
State
,
which
I
have
lived
to
see
to
my
great
grief
;
and
done
by
professing
Christians
,
those
that
Covenanted
also
as
we
did
,
not
with
Man
but
with
the
dreadful
God
;
and
for
private
ends
,
I
fear
,
and
as
now
it
doth
plainly
appear
by
the
fruits
this
Self-interest
hath
brought
forth
,
(
for
the
good
of
the
whole
Nation
these
many
years
.
)
Otherwhiles
I
have
had
thoughts
of
the
words
that
our
blessed
Saviour
said
to
his
Apostles
,
that
A
Sparrow
falls
not
to
the
ground
without
the
will
of
God
;
and
it
was
his
will
to
bring
these
heavy
afflictions
upon
the
Church
,
State
and
King
;
As
the
sacred
Scriptures
in
divers
places
shew
,
how
the
glorious
Majesty
and
all-commanding
power
of
Heaven
and
Earth
hath
done
for
the
sins
of
divers
Nations
;
all
whose
wayes
and
judgments
are
perfect
Justice
,
and
uncontroulable
Truths
.
And
so
likewise
I
had
thoughts
at
other
times
,
of
the
gracious
goodness
of
our
merciful
Father
,
in
ordering
a
way
for
the
Redemption
of
lost
man
,
by
the
death
and
precious
bloud-shedding
of
his
righteous
Son
,
that
holy
Oblation
:
But
I
observe
that
Judas
had
a
hand
in
betraying
his
righteous
Master
,
for
self-ends
or
envy
,
but
he
perished
with
his
ill-gotten
monies
,
and
not
alone
:
For
also
in
that
relation
I
find
divers
persons
of
rank
and
quality
,
both
Priests
and
learned
people
too
,
seeking
divers
wayes
by
their
Emissaries
,
how
they
might
put
him
to
death
,
and
not
without
the
consent
of
many
of
the
Commons
also
,
with
whom
they
used
such
artifices
;
being
Joynt-confederates
,
that
the
whole
gang
of
them
cry
out
,
His
Bloud
be
on
us
and
on
our
children
;
and
it
stuck
so
close
to
them
,
that
the
whole
Nation
felt
the
sad
issues
of
their
fearful
Imprecations
.
The
good
God
deliver
us
from
the
same
Judgements
;
we
having
slain
our
King
,
and
taken
possession
,
and
banished
his
Posterity
,
toplease
or
share
with
a
Party
of
self-interested
men
,
in
the
ruines
of
Him
,
the
Church
,
and
the
Nations
Laws
and
goods
,
after
a
solemn
Covenant
made
with
hands
lifted
up
to
the
most
high
God
,
and
contrary
to
the
consent
of
most
of
the
whole
Nations
,
who
had
no
hand
in
his
Death
,
nor
means
to
prevent
it
,
but
by
Weeping
to
see
and
hear
what
a
few
Armed
men
,
and
their
Complices
,
would
violently
do
,
contrary
to
known
Law
or
right
,
by
a
new-devised
High
Court
,
by
them
called
Justice
,
set
up
by
the
tyrannizing
Sword
to
destroy
King
,
Nobles
and
Law
,
to
satisfie
their
own
bloud-thirsty
designs
.
I
have
had
also
divers
debates
in
my
mind
,
about
some
scruples
that
were
often
there
,
when
I
could
not
sleep
,
about
the
Covenant
,
and
the
Hanging
of
it
up
in
our
Churches
,
as
if
it
were
a
thing
seriously
to
be
performed
,
or
as
a
Testimony
against
us
,
being
so
solemnly
taken
in
his
holy
Temple
,
once
made
to
the
God
of
all
the
earth
,
who
is
able
in
a
moment
of
time
to
destroy
us
poor
crawling
worms
;
and
so
earnestly
prest
also
upon
the
people
by
the
Divines
,
and
by
them
and
us
so
little
regarded
,
as
if
God
were
to
be
jested
with
and
Mans
Conscience
would
perpetually
be
injured
,
and
yet
be
silent
or
wink
at
such
high
deceiving
subtilties
.
And
chancing
to
read
in
the
Turkish
History
,
in
the
reign
of
Amurath
the
sixt
King
of
the
Turks
,
who
seeing
the
great
slaughter
of
his
men
,
and
all
brought
into
extreme
danger
,
and
beholding
the
Picture
of
the
Crucifix
in
the
displayed
Ensigns
of
the
Christians
,
pluckt
the
writing
out
of
his
bosom
,
wherein
the
League
of
the
Christians
was
comprized
,
and
holding
it
up
in
his
hands
,
with
his
eyes
cast
up
to
Heaven
,
said
:
Behold
,
thou
crucified
Christ
;
This
is
the
League
thy
Christians
in
thy
name
made
with
me
,
which
they
have
without
cause
violated
;
now
if
thou
be
a
God
,
as
they
say
thou
art
,
and
as
we
dream
,
revenge
the
wrong
now
done
unto
thy
Name
and
me
,
and
shew
thy
power
upon
thy
perjured
people
,
who
in
their
deeds
deny
thee
their
God
.
Shortly
after
the
Turks
got
the
victory
,
and
the
poor
Christians
miserably
put
to
the
slaughter
,
and
Julian
one
of
the
Cardinals
,
Author
of
the
breach
of
the
Christians
Articles
(
though
fled
)
found
mortally
wounded
and
near
dead
;
who
was
sharply
reproved
by
an
eminent
Christian
,
Gregory
Sanose
,
but
left
to
perish
unpitied
in
a
Desart
;
in
which
fatal
Battle
were
slain
such
huge
numbers
of
men
,
that
the
hills
and
mountains
,
raised
with
the
bones
of
the
slain
in
this
Battle
,
to
this
day
bear
witness
;
as
saith
the
same
Author
of
the
Turkish
History
.
Then
,
good
Friends
,
what
may
we
fear
when
the
great
God
makes
inquisition
for
Bloud
and
breach
of
Vows
?
both
of
the
Clergy
that
had
the
charge
of
our
souls
,
and
should
have
given
us
true
counsel
,
as
well
as
of
the
poor
Laity
,
who
have
been
led
as
sheep
to
the
slaughter
,
when
the
Alarums
have
founded
out
of
the
Pulpits
in
the
beginning
of
these
Times
,
Curse
ye
Meroz
,
curse
ye
bitterly
the
Inhabitants
thereof
,
because
they
came
not
to
the
help
of
the
Lord
against
the
mighty
:
and
others
violently
reproching
the
Liturgie
or
Prayer-book
of
our
Church
,
and
all
that
owned
it
Malignants
and
Opposers
of
the
Reformation
.
Besides
,
I
being
called
,
though
very
unfit
and
more
unserviceable
for
any
publick
duty
,
and
voted
down
or
turned
away
February
9.
1659.
from
the
discharge
of
our
duties
and
Conscience
enjoyned
by
Oath
,
for
the
publick
service
of
the
City
,
(
which
that
hasty
Vote
did
not
dissolve
.
)
And
I
humbly
conceiving
it
might
be
somewhat
more
than
man
that
brought
things
so
about
,
that
such
a
poor
Mushrome
,
as
my
unworthy
self
,
should
be
at
all
thought
on
for
such
affairs
,
when
divers
of
more
knowing
worth
,
degree
and
fitness
were
forgotten
.
But
thus
being
put
into
the
traces
,
and
my
dull
senses
lasht
by
divers
able
mens
disputes
,
about
our
Nationall
and
City-priviledges
;
and
hearing
Mr.
Barbone
a
justing
those
members
(
in
these
words
)
now
sitting
to
be
the
Parliament
of
England
,
and
the
same
men
that
acted
there
the
last
Summer
,
and
were
so
by
the
City
and
Nation
acknowledged
,
and
the
Taxes
then
leavyed
by
them
,
gathered
by
us
,
and
why
not
now
being
the
same
Parliament
of
England
now
sitting
,
it
was
a
wonder
to
him
,
being
lasht
,
as
I
said
before
,
and
this
Gentlemans
words
,
so
touching
my
galled
Conscience
,
began
to
winch
,
and
being
prest
by
its
discharge
,
I
like
blind
Bayard
said
:
My
Lord
Mayor
,
The
Gentleman
that
spake
last
concerning
the
Parliament
of
England
,
as
he
calls
the
Gentlemen
now
sitting
,
surely
mistakes
the
sense
of
this
Court
;
for
truly
,
my
Lord
,
I
am
perswaded
there
is
never
a
Member
here
but
honours
the
Parliament
of
England
,
and
will
lay
their
hands
under
their
feet
,
and
sacrifice
thier
lives
and
estates
to
do
them
service
,
and
we
honour
these
that
now
are
set
at
the
Stern
as
men
of
worth
and
quality
:
But
,
my
Lord
,
we
cannot
say
by
these
Gentlemen
,
though
by
us
once
freely
chosen
,
because
they
were
d●ssolved
by
the
late
Kings
death
,
as
by
Law
hath
been
undeniably
proved
;
but
,
my
Lord
,
divers
of
these
did
desert
their
Trust
that
we
reposed
in
them
,
and
went
to
the
Army
,
and
brought
in
Oliver
the
great
Oppressor
to
invade
our
Rights
,
and
with
his
and
their
Adherents
by
force
secluded
most
of
our
Trustees
,
and
were
themselves
also
dissolved
so
by
him
and
his
Complices
,
though
they
acted
with
and
for
him
a
long
time
;
and
now
,
my
Lord
,
your
Honour
and
all
us
well
know
,
that
the
same
force
that
pull'd
down
great
Olivers
Son
,
set
up
these
that
now
sit
by
the
Lord
Lamberts
assistance
,
and
by
his
force
were
the
third
time
dissolved
,
and
now
by
the
strength
of
an
Army
are
again
set
in
power
to
act
as
our
Representatives
,
although
not
new
elected
or
chosen
by
us
,
according
to
our
Laws
and
English
Birth-rights
,
as
hath
been
throughly
debated
in
this
Court
by
divers
worthy
Citizens
of
able
knowing
judgments
,
that
intended
no
hurt
to
these
Gentlemen
that
now
sit
,
but
the
right
and
good
of
all
the
Nation
and
themselves
.
My
Lord
,
this
that
hath
now
been
plainly
said
is
truth
,
and
Truth
seeks
no
corners
,
nor
these
Gentlemen
a
Parliament
by
us
chosen
.
The
substance
of
these
words
was
offered
at
the
Guild-hall
in
the
Council
of
the
Commons
,
February
8.
1659.
when
the
Army
was
new
come
to
London
.
The
next
Friday
being
the
10.
of
the
same
Moneth
,
the
Gates
of
the
City
were
broken
down
,
and
our
Posts
and
Chains
pluckt
up
,
and
divers
of
our
Members
sent
Prisoners
to
the
Tower
;
and
our
sorrowful
hearts
overwhelmed
with
grief
,
dreading
the
fearful
issue
following
;
yet
trusting
still
in
God
,
our
alone
great
Deliverer
,
who
comforting
our
drooping
hearts
by
his
gracious
appearance
in
a
merciful
measure
for
us
,
on
Saturday
the
II.
of
the
same
Moneth
,
on
which
night
was
great
joy
expressed
by
many
of
the
younger
sort
by
Bonfires
in
every
eminent
street
;
and
I
doubt
not
but
the
elder
sort
,
both
Laymen
and
Divines
,
sacrificed
divers
humble
Prayers
and
hearty
thanks
to
the
most
high
God
our
whole
deliverer
,
whose
heavenly
smiles
did
then
graciously
glimmer
upon
us
his
poor
distressed
creatures
;
whose
holy
Name
be
eternally
praised
by
all
that
fear
him
;
whose
goodness
we
hope
will
now
perfect
our
now
new
begun
joy
.
I
have
lived
to
see
our
Moses
and
Aaron
,
the
defenders
of
our
Faith
and
Church
,
with
their
friends
and
adherents
suffer
;
and
I
may
yet
live
to
see
the
Troublers
of
our
Peace
and
Church
,
with
their
Corah
,
Dathan
,
and
all
their
Abiramists
,
overwhelmed
,
or
as
I
desire
,
converted
.
Then
let
not
our
Faith
fail
us
,
but
stand
still
and
see
,
how
our
God
will
deliver
us
;
and
remember
when
his
servants
,
the
distressed
Sons
of
Jacob
,
were
at
the
brink
of
the
Sea
,
and
Egypts
Host
fiercely
pursuing
,
and
Israels
fainting
spirits
sinking
,
and
their
doubtful
thoughts
breaking
out
into
doleful
expressions
,
Because
there
were
no
graves
in
Egypt
,
hast
thou
brought
us
forth
to
die
in
this
wilderness
?
Therefore
take
courage
,
dear
Brethren
,
of
this
City
,
and
the
bottomless
sea
of
our
distrusts
may
become
walls
to
our
fainting
spirits
,
and
our selves
though
going
through
these
troubled
seas
in
this
night
of
our
afflictions
,
we
may
yet
stand
upon
the
shore
of
safety
,
by
the
power
of
our
God
,
and
see
these
furious
Conjurers
and
Pharaoh-like
Task-masters
floating
upon
the
deep
waters
of
Despair
,
helpless
;
for
it
is
the
same
Jehovah
,
who
saved
Israel
,
that
will
deliver
us
;
and
be
confident
the
Arke
of
his
Truth
,
which
we
trust
in
,
will
tumble
down
the
Dagon
of
their
Injustice
,
let
them
set
it
up
never
so
often
;
and
let
us
belive
with
faithful
Abraham
,
that
The
Judge
of
all
the
earth
will
do
right
.
I
have
been
also
often
grieved
to
hear
and
see
such
a
dull
and
negligent
garb
of
Publick
Worship
as
is
now
used
in
divers
Churches
.
Over
that
reverential
form
of
Publick
Worship
was
that
I
had
the
happiness
to
see
,
before
these
times
of
Trouble
and
Confusion
;
which
,
if
at
all
offensive
to
any
,
might
by
skilful
Workmen
have
been
handsomelier
mended
,
than
by
such
self-conceited
Bunglers
thus
ill-favour'dly
patcht
up
,
and
pestered
with
Sectaries
of
all
kind
of
colours
,
as
if
they
intended
to
make
it
like
my
Lord
Husons
Fool
:
But
the
holy
Scripture
saith
,
When
the
blind
lead
the
blind
,
we
must
needs
fall
into
the
distressed
ditch
of
our
confused
Fopperies
.
The
good
Lord
give
us
grace
to
return
and
humbly
beg
mercy
through
the
merits
of
our
dear
Saviour
,
whose
offended
Father
we
have
most
egregiously
provoked
to
displeasure
,
before
his
fierce
deserved
warth
break
in
upon
us
;
and
seek
our
God
in
sincerity
by
humiliation
and
true
imitation
of
the
Ninevites
unfeigned
Fasts
,
and
lay
by
our
hypocritical
vizards
with
which
we
have
so
long
deceived
the
Nation
and
our selves
,
and
walk
no
more
by
Sathans
Dark-lanthorns
,
but
revive
the
former
pure
lights
that
shewed
us
the
right
wayes
to
Unity
in
perfect
forms
of
divine
Worship
;
which
teacheth
us
to
pray
for
the
Governors
his
goodness
will
be
pleased
to
set
over
us
,
and
for
one
another
,
that
our
Church
and
State
may
once
again
flourish
in
unity
and
concord
,
with
due
respect
to
tender
Consciences
that
are
not
factious
.
And
then
it
were
but
equity
,
if
rightly
considered
,
in
my
weak
apprehension
,
for
to
suffer
us
that
would
joyn
together
in
the
praising
of
the
Almighty
glory
with
our
interlocutory
voices
,
in
acknowledging
and
humbly
confessing
our
manifold
sins
before
the
great
God
of
Heaven
and
earth
,
Angels
and
Men
,
in
his
publick
fit-to-be-done
Worship
;
and
,
because
it
best
suits
with
our
Consciences
,
and
the
rules
of
Righteousness
in
the
holy
Scripture
,
which
saith
,
That
At
what
time
soever
a
Sinner
doth
repent
him
of
his
sins
from
the
bottom
of
his
heart
,
I
will
put
away
all
his
wickedness
out
of
my
remembrance
,
saith
the
Lord
:
and
likewise
,
When
two
or
three
are
gathered
together
in
my
Name
,
there
will
I
be
in
the
midst
of
them
.
And
humbly
may
I
say
,
and
cannot
otherwise
think
,
but
that
when
so
many
multitudes
of
People
,
at
the
known
divine
Worship
of
the
immortal
God
in
publick
,
but
that
there
be
divers
that
worship
him
in
Spirit
and
Truth
,
and
do
not
conceive
it
an
Idol-worship
,
(
as
I
have
heard
Mr.
Pernes
out
of
his
Pulpit
call
the
Common
Prayer-Book
an
Idol
)
although
they
knew
the
words
they
were
to
praise
God
with
before
they
met
,
rather
than
unpremeditated
disgustings
;
remembring
the
rule
of
a
wise
man
,
God
is
in
Heaven
and
thou
art
on
Earth
;
and
also
well
knowing
that
The
spirit
is
willing
but
the
flesh
is
weak
.
Therefore
the
Confession
used
in
our
well-ordered
Church
,
that
all
the
Congregation
might
bear
a
part
in
the
humble
acknowledgment
of
their
many
faults
,
meekly
kneeling
upon
their
bended
knees
,
with
holy
adorations
to
the
Almighty
glory
,
clapping
their
trembling
hands
upon
their
sorrow-smitten
breasts
,
humbly
begging
pardon
for
our
manifold
transgressions
of
him
who
onely
can
grant
us
pardon
,
and
hear
our
petitions
;
and
most
likely
,
when
so
many
millions
of
sin-sick
humbled
souls
shall
be
invocating
Heaven
with
one
consent
in
the
same
words
,
betwixt
the
hours
of
9.
and
12.
upon
his
dayes
and
places
appointed
for
his
publick
Worship
in
the
three
nations
,
over
it
is
now
in
our
Churches
;
when
but
one
in
a
Congregation
,
and
that
what
he
pleaseth
,
and
many
times
so
low
that
few
can
hear
or
learn
,
the
matter
being
changed
so
often
,
and
many
times
so
thin
,
that
it
slides
away
unheeded
,
and
without
an
Absolution
also
of
our
sins
,
though
never
more
need
.
Nor
can
I
be
of
Mr.
Pernes
opinion
,
who
directed
his
Auditors
to
pray
in
their
Families
although
their
folks
laughed
at
them
,
when
so
many
well-formed
prayers
are
extant
for
poor
Penitents
to
follow
,
without
oftentation
,
or
vain
Fantasies
of
their
own
giddy
brain
;
as
that
Prayer
of
prayers
taught
us
by
the
blessed
lips
of
our
dear
Redeemer
,
wherein
all
things
needful
at
once
are
begged
in
that
holy
Epitomie
,
which
teacheth
us
how
to
pray
,
and
to
whom
,
and
by
him
commanded
,
When
you
pray
,
say
our
Father
which
art
in
Heaven
,
&c.
and
yet
by
divers
not
at
all
used
,
for
what
reason
I
never
yet
heard
,
nor
can
I
think
,
unless
they
think
it
is
too
mean
or
too
common
for
their
high-gifted
Fantasies
,
or
would
help
the
Enemy
to
obliterate
it
,
that
he
might
do
us
more
evil
.
Pardon
me
,
I
pray
,
all
you
that
neglect
it
,
for
it
doth
make
the
common
people
too
too
much
slight
it
by
such
eminent
examples
.
Nor
would
I
be
herein
mistaken
,
as
not
to
like
and
allow
of
voluntary
prayers
,
which
ought
to
be
often
seriously
practised
before
publiquely
used
by
devout
souls
,
it
being
the
onely
remedy
for
the
saddest
complaints
of
any
afflicting
conscience
,
to
make
his
timely
addresses
to
his
offended
God
,
for
the
quieting
of
his
sorrow-troubled
soul
;
and
was
alwayes
allowed
in
our
Churches
before
and
after
Sermons
,
as
I
have
often
heard
before
these
times
;
and
now
praise
be
to
the
highest
Lord
,
by
divers
rarely
gifted
Divines
,
as
the
Angel
of
the
Church
of
St.
Dunstans
,
and
many
others
,
whose
heavenly
expressing
language
pours
forth
the
dictates
of
the
holy
Spirit
,
filling
their
Auditors
ears
with
such
soul-ravishing
meditations
,
as
if
the
Cloven-working
power
had
inflamed
their
zealous
hearts
with
heavenly
firing
raptures
.
And
it
was
well
with
us
when
such
men
steer'd
the
helm
of
publick
Worship
,
that
being
alwayes
most
for
Gods
glory
:
Although
private
Worship
ought
to
be
in
great
esteem
,
as
best
pleasing
to
God
,
which
our
blessed
Saviour
doth
direct
;
those
secret
Closet-confessions
of
a
broken
and
contrite
heart
,
with
all
the
sorrow-shaking
throws
of
a
distressed
soul
,
pouring
forth
his
saddest
griefs
before
the
heavenly
throne
,
that
onely
can
help
in
time
of
greatest
need
;
which
our
old
enemy
knows
is
likeliest
to
prevail
with
God
,
whose
merciful
goodness
hath
said
,
Come
unto
me
all
ye
that
are
heavy
laden
,
and
I
will
give
you
rest
.
But
the
subtile
betrayer
of
our
weak
performances
,
is
apt
to
suggest
his
old
cunning
sophistries
into
our
soondeluded
souls
,
as
he
did
our
first
Mother
,
These
meditations
in
publick
,
amongst
the
gifted
Brotherhood
would
make
thee
highly
esteemed
and
accounted
wise
,
in
letting
your
inspired
new-tinded
Lights
be
seen
before
religious
men
;
for
the
most
tear-melting
Hypocrite
,
that
is
best
able
to
deceive
himself
and
others
,
is
the
Saint
,
that
liketh
him
best
:
(
Herod
had
the
applause
,
that
It
was
the
voice
of
a
God
and
not
of
a
man
.
)
For
he
by
no
means
would
have
us
take
counsel
of
our
most
endearing
Saviour
,
nor
follow
his
examples
;
who
often
withdrew
himself
apart
to
pray
unto
his
all-guiding
God
,
to
hold
an
heavenly
conference
with
his
Almighty
Father
about
the
great
work
of
our
Redemption
;
and
he
hath
also
directed
us
To
enter
into
our
Clossets
to
pray
in
secret
to
our
heavenly
Father
,
where
we
should
unburthen
our
sin-guilty
souls
with
the
grones
of
his
heavenly
Spirit
,
no where
else
so
sufficiently
to
unfold
our
troubled
minds
and
the
distresses
of
our
dejected
spirits
,
before
a
powerful
forgiving
God
,
who
knows
the
secret
thoughts
of
our
deceitful
hearts
,
before
our
tongues
or
brinish
tears
unfold
our
shameful
griefs
,
not
fit
for
others
ears
to
hear
.
Nor
can
such
grief-expressing
mones
be
made
by
a
truly
Penitents
throbbing
breast
in
publick
,
but
our
old
enemy
will
be
distracting
our
thoughts
with
his
subtile
delusions
,
which
spoil
the
meditation
of
the
serious
prayers
that
we
poor
weaklings
can
perform
in
the
sight
of
others
.
The
Lord
preserve
us
from
his
trecheries
,
whose
whole
work
is
to
deceive
us
.
Therefore
a
known
form
of
publick
Worship
,
that
all
may
use
,
is
surely
requisite
:
For
may
we
not
observe
by
the
vile
things
now
done
by
divers
,
what
want
there
hath
been
of
the
due
observance
of
the
great
commands
of
the
everliving
God
,
delivered
upon
Mount
Sinai
by
the
voice
of
the
powerful
Master
,
when
the
Heaven-shaking
thunders
made
the
earth
to
tremble
,
and
Jacobs
whole
posterity
to
quake
to
hear
what
indignations
the
wilful
breakers
of
these
Heaven-given
Laws
should
be
punished
with
;
yet
now
for
more
than
12.
years
in
divers
Congregations
not
read
to
the
people
nor
observed
,
as
our
duty
binds
us
:
whereby
our
transgressions
(
we
may
observe
)
are
multiplied
,
our
great
Gods
commands
too
much
dishonoured
,
and
by
many
falsly
worshipped
,
his
Name
violently
taken
in
vain
by
our
too
too
many
Oaths
and
breaches
of
Covenants
,
and
hypocritical
Fasts
,
breaking
of
Sabbaths
,
marching
of
armed
men
all
dayes
alike
,
dishonouring
our
Magistrates
and
Parents
,
Murthering
our
King
,
Priests
and
Commons
,
odious
Adulteries
used
among
us
,
and
many
false
Witnesses
for
Sequestrations
,
and
unneighbourly
dealings
too
frequently
used
amongst
us
,
and
too
covetous
of
all
manner
of
our
Neighbours
goods
.
But
when
those
heavenly-breathed
Petitions
were
poured
out
by
all
the
Congregation
to
the
Almighty
glory
,
Lord
have
mercy
upon
us
,
and
encline
our
hearts
to
keep
this
Law
;
and
also
,
Lord
have
mercy
upon
us
,
and
write
all
these
thy
Laws
in
our
hearts
we
beseech
thee
;
O
what
acclamations
of
joy
those
men
breathed
Petitons
made
against
the
walls
of
heaven
,
and
entered
into
the
holy
ears
of
the
Almighty
;
which
by
experience
we
may
and
ought
to
know
,
when
his
holy
,
glorious
blessings
preserved
our
Governours
and
Nation
with
tranquility
and
peace
,
both
from
domestick
and
forreign
foes
,
for
many
score
years
together
,
when
those
forms
of
publick
Worship
were
continued
,
wherein
all
had
a
share
:
But
our
old
enemy
(
with
his
busie
instruments
,
who
were
long
ago
about
to
slight
this
work
)
knew
well
,
that
as
long
as
God
was
so
worshipped
by
those
constant
forms
of
so
well
an
instructing
Church
,
his
labours
were
to
no
end
:
But
at
last
he
found
Feoffees
indeed
he
could
trust
,
who
with
their
schismatique
hammers
and
destroying
Pickaxes
of
Division
would
now
up
with
Root
and
Branch
,
and
take
the
Bramble
for
the
Vine
,
whose
government
he
well
knew
would
sufficiently
scratch
both
Church
and
Common-wealth
,
into
the
sad
condition
he
long
ago
wished
for
,
as
our selves
and
the
distressed
poor
stript
Sons
of
the
Church
by
woful
experience
can
testifie
.
But
since
the
constant
Prayers
for
all
occasions
of
our
well-ordered
Church
were
put
out
of
use
,
how
hath
all
things
looked
like
the
Antipodes
,
as
if
a
Chaos
of
confusion
had
infatuated
all
our
Councils
and
actings
,
that
nothing
cometh
to
good
:
And
since
the
Pale
of
our
distressed
Sion
and
National
Government
was
broken
down
by
our
schismatique
Factions
,
England
,
Scotland
and
Ireland
have
all
suffered
a
just
deserved
affliction
,
by
the
loss
of
uniformity
in
Prayer
for
Magistrates
and
people
:
And
also
those
unhappy
hands
who
set
about
this
fatal
work
,
in
making
way
for
the
Church
of
Rome
to
unkennel
her
subtil
Foxes
to
destroy
ours
,
with
the
help
of
our
long
tusked
Bores
with
their
basket-hilted
swords
,
who
have
rooted
out
and
thrown
down
the
Vineyard
,
and
laid
waste
the
inheritance
of
our
dear
Mother
,
and
are
like
to
destroy
the
rest
of
her
tender
plants
,
if
God
in
mercy
prevent
it
not
.
But
Gods
divine
vengeance
,
whose
Judgments
have
fallen
upon
divers
of
them
,
our
eyes
have
seen
,
that
are
roled
into
their
graves
with
reproch
,
and
their
names
recorded
in
infamy
for
after-Ages
to
abhor
,
that
nulled
these
heavenly
petitions
,
From
Plague
,
Pestilence
and
Famine
,
from
Battle
and
Murther
,
and
from
sudden
death
,
Good
Lord
deliver
us
.
From
all
sedition
and
privy
conspiracy
,
from
all
false
doctrine
and
heresie
,
from
hardness
of
heart
and
contempt
of
thy
Word
and
Commandments
.
Good
Lord
deliver
us
:
the
which
in
all
likelihood
by
our
humble
addresses
,
and
with
our
hearty
united
prayers
,
and
truly
compunctious
tears
to
his
heavenly
Majesty
,
might
have
moved
our
gracious
God
to
have
had
compassion
on
us
,
and
our
King
and
all
his
people
,
which
now
lie
languishing
in
woful
distresses
,
because
we
have
rejected
those
usual
means
,
by
which
for
many
years
his
gracious
goodness
was
pleased
to
deliver
our
Land
and
Governors
from
Plague
,
Famine
,
and
intestine
Wars
,
and
from
factious
Schisciomites
.
What
a
decent
sight
it
was
to
see
the
people
so
reverently
worshiping
the
mighty
Lord
,
when
they
warbled
forth
with
joynt
consent
,
O
come
let
us
sing
unto
the
Lord
,
let
us
heartily
rejoyce
in
the
strength
of
our
Salvation
;
and
those
eternal
dues
from
all
the
Earth
,
in
the
Landamus
,
We
praise
thee
,
O
God
,
we
acknowledge
thee
to
be
the
Lord
,
&c.
that
all
the
people
,
both
young
and
old
,
rich
and
poor
,
are
in
duty
bound
reverently
to
worship
the
Father
everlasting
,
whose
infinite
Majesty
gloriously
commands
all
the
whole
world
:
And
yet
we
poor
Underlings
,
the
sinful
Sons
of
Adam
,
must
be
tongue-tied
,
and
may
not
bear
a
part
in
those
heavenly
Hallelujahs
to
our
most
gracious
preserver
and
powerful
Redeemer
,
because
a
few
of
our
tender-conscienc'd
brethren
will
not
allow
us
that
freedom
to
discharge
our
eternally
obliged
duties
without
offending
them
,
who
under
the
name
of
Liberty
of
Conscience
do
manage
all
kind
of
mischiefs
;
witness
the
direful
Petition
Febr.
9.
1658.
When
these
decent
Orders
were
used
in
our
well-disciplined
Church
,
with
what
reverence
did
my
eyes
behold
both
old
and
young
adore
their
holy
Maker
,
and
since
this
named
Reformation
,
how
unreverently
do
most
demean
themselves
in
his
sacred
Temples
,
the
place
of
his
divine
worship
,
where
children
,
boyes
and
unmannerly
servants
clap
on
their
hats
before
their
Masters
,
Magistrates
,
Ministers
,
Judges
and
all
degrees
of
men
,
and
yet
forbear
it
at
home
,
but
presume
to
affront
God
with
as
much
unhandsom
worship
as
the
Reformation
is
pleased
to
suffer
to
avoid
Superstition
.
When
I
have
observed
in
inferiour
Courts
,
as
at
Sessions
and
elsewhere
in
cooler
air
before
men
,
onely
earthly
Judges
and
upon
wooden
benches
,
highly
reverenced
,
as
if
it
were
some
great
fault
to
be
covered
before
them
,
who
are
but
the
Keepers
of
the
laws
of
Men
,
when
our
ever-living
God
,
who
made
the
glorious
heavens
,
with
all
the
mighty
vast
movables
,
who
keep
their
course
for
the
observation
of
times
and
seasons
,
ever
since
the
Creation
,
with
the
massy
globe
we
trample
upon
,
which
he
hath
hung
in
the
air
by
the
power
of
his
all-commanding
word
,
with
the
proud
waves
of
the
great
Deep
,
who
keep
their
violent
ebbings
and
flowings
in
their
appointed
channels
,
round
the
circumference
of
the
earth
with
admiration
and
wonder
:
And
yet
this
infinite
incomprehensible
all-powerful
God
,
that
giveth
us
all
good
things
here
,
and
eternal
life
hereafter
,
is
so
unhandsomly
served
by
us
his
poor
creatures
,
and
may
not
be
suffered
without
offence
(
forsooth
)
to
tender
Consciences
to
use
our
dear
Mothers
decent
dressings
in
her
humble
ornaments
to
do
her
divine
adorations
to
this
glorious
King
,
for
fear
of
ushering
in
Superstition
;
as
if
rational
men
might
not
teach
their
children
and
servants
such
respective
observations
in
holy
worship
(
to
our
great
God
,
before
whom
the
Cherubims
and
glorious
Angels
tremble
when
they
come
before
him
)
as
in
civility
we
do
to
one
another
,
and
before
our
earthly
Judges
which
die
like
men
.
And
why
those
decent
postures
of
humbly
kneeling
when
the
Sacrament
is
received
,
and
those
known
prayers
fitted
for
that
posture
said
,
as
The
body
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
which
was
given
for
thee
,
&c.
and
likewise
those
agonizing
words
,
The
bloud
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
which
was
shed
for
thee
,
&c.
all
those
known
prayers
used
by
all
the
Communicants
,
to
keep
the
evil
one
from
hindring
our
serious
meditations
,
and
humble
invocations
upon
our
bended
knees
,
whiles
others
were
singing
those
hallowed
Hymns
,
while
the
holy
sacrificed
Oblation
was
remembringly
performed
by
all
the
believing
Communicants
;
over
that
that
I
have
seen
of
late
by
divers
,
who
are
very
observant
to
see
how
the
deliverer
prayes
and
receives
,
whilst
divers
are
at
gaze
to
see
what
others
do
,
more
than
seriously
I
fear
to
consider
the
great
work
we
are
about
which
brings
life
or
death
.
Truly
I
like
not
the
new
way
though
performed
by
able
men
,
but
will
have
none
but
their
select
permitted
,
when
they
cannot
see
into
the
hearts
of
men
more
now
,
than
the
inspired
Apostles
could
,
who
charged
us
to
examine
our selves
upon
great
penalties
.
The
people
would
indeed
go
up
to
Jerusalem
to
worship
,
after
the
accustomed
manner
,
and
Jeroboam
would
devise
a
new
way
to
restrain
their
old
way
of
Sacrificing
,
but
it
became
a
fault
,
I
pray
God
it
may
be
none
to
our
Restrainers
from
the
usual
Sacraments
.
Likewise
,
I
have
wondred
why
the
Birth
of
our
blessed
Saviour
should
not
be
solemnized
,
(
as
formerly
it
was
)
by
as
wise
and
learned
men
as
are
now
,
to
keep
in
memory
a
day
for
his
birth
;
since
God
so
miraculously
,
and
of
his
own
goodness
,
hath
been
pleased
to
discover
how
our
God
was
made
man
,
and
that
holy
born
man
made
God
to
redeem
us
,
and
therefore
in
my
weak
judgment
fit
to
be
kept
in
perpetual
memory
to
all
generations
of
Christian
men
,
until
the
Resurrection
,
when
there
will
be
no
distinction
of
Gods
:
At
last
I
did
conceive
it
was
the
old
enemy
of
mans
happiness
,
that
would
obliterate
the
great
Gods
Birth-day
,
under
some
reforming
pretence
,
that
in
time
he
might
bring
in
Infidelism
,
and
by
degrees
damp
the
light
of
the
holy
Scriptures
,
the
great
work
he
is
now
about
;
the
Lord
prevent
him
with
the
birth
of
our
dear
Saviour
whom
he
would
have
forgotten
:
Then
let
him
alone
to
bring
several
gods
amongst
us
,
as
Ashteroth
,
Molech
,
Mahomet
,
or
any
of
those
heathenish
Baboons
;
but
God
,
who
is
alwayes
good
to
his
,
is
now
raising
up
one
instrument
or
other
to
keep
the
memory
of
his
holy
Childs
birth
on
foot
,
as
may
be
spoken
to
his
glorious
honour
,
and
the
immortal
praise
of
that
vertuous
Lady
Parthenia
Lowman
,
who
hath
given
to
St.
Dunstans
west
,
and
two
or
three
adjacent
parishes
100
l.
apeece
,
the
improvement
whereof
she
hath
ordered
to
be
given
to
glad
the
hearts
of
the
Poor
upon
the
Birth-day
of
our
blessed
Lord
,
with
a
commemoration-Sermon
also
to
continue
his
sacred
memory
to
all
succeeding
generations
.
What
offence
likewise
to
any
did
that
soul-ravishing
Emphasis
and
general
applause
of
all
the
Congregation
to
the
honor
of
our
most
endearing
God
,
Glory
be
to
the
Father
,
and
to
the
Son
,
and
to
the
holy
Ghost
,
&c.
fit
to
be
acknowledged
and
used
by
all
the
sincere
Worshippers
of
God
throughout
the
whole
world
.
And
this
interlocutory
Doxology
holy
David
did
allow
,
and
sure
his
judgment
was
right
,
being
by
testimony
of
holy
Writ
,
A
man
after
Gods
own
heart
,
when
he
breaks
forth
into
holy
raptures
in
Psal.
67.
Let
all
the
people
praise
thee
,
O
God
,
let
all
the
people
praise
thee
;
and
with
this
promised
blessing
,
ver.
6.
Then
shall
the
Earth
bring
forth
her
increase
,
and
God
,
even
our
God
,
shall
give
us
his
blessing
.
To
speak
the
very
truth
,
there
are
so
many
holy
sentences
,
and
heavenly
ejaculations
,
and
divine
prayers
for
all
occasions
,
that
it
makes
my
amazed
soul
to
wonder
and
tremble
,
that
we
should
neglect
,
nay
with
contempt
slight
and
cast
out
,
such
a
well-framed
form
of
publick
worship
,
that
instructed
the
simple
and
unlearned
to
rightly
worship
God
,
by
her
constant
rules
of
publick
worship
.
But
I
have
done
:
This
is
a
work
indeed
for
some
Angelick
Orator
,
to
let
us
ignorant
know
the
heavenly
use
might
be
made
of
such
a
mercy
we
once
enjoyed
,
though
now
slighting
that
Manna
so
wisely
provided
for
us
.
Having
thus
cast
in
my
two
poor
inconsiderable
Mites
,
the
one
for
the
Liberties
of
my
native
Country
,
the
other
for
my
dear
Mother
the
distressed
Church
of
England
in
these
troublesom
times
:
I
hope
my
friends
will
sparingly
censure
the
weak
smoakings
of
this
smothering
flax
;
and
for
my
foes
to
this
just
cause
and
me
,
the
good
Lord
forgive
them
and
pardon
me
,
in
time
of
greatest
need
(
if
any
trouble
come
)
for
thus
discharging
my
Conscience
as
being
a
Covenanter
and
loving
well-willer
to
the
Church
and
State
.
Pardon
me
also
,
I
pray
you
,
ye
great
learned
lights
of
the
Church
,
for
thus
presuming
to
offer
with
my
roughhewing
hands
and
unpollished
Pen
,
in
touching
things
so
far
above
my
feeble
reach
,
(
and
with
the
greatest
,
accept
of
the
will
for
the
deed
)
you
know
the
poor
widow
would
cast
into
the
Treasury
all
that
she
had
;
and
it
was
the
poor
Shepherds
,
inconsiderable
persons
,
I
humbly
conceive
,
that
had
the
happiness
to
see
that
heavenly
sight
of
the
blessed
Quire
of
Angels
,
when
they
proclaimed
Glory
to
God
in
the
highest
,
on
earth
peace
,
good
will
towards
men
;
yea
their
poor
ears
had
the
honor
to
hear
that
unexpressible
soul-ravishing
mirth
,
that
that
Hierarchy
of
Angels
made
at
the
birth
of
our
dear
mothers
new-born
Bridgroom
:
And
we
poor
weaklings
would
heartily
rejoyce
to
hear
and
see
the
Church
again
comforted
;
therefore
I
hope
you
will
excuse
me
,
poor
despicable
worm
,
(
and
with
humble
reverence
I
'le
but
remember
you
)
A
Carpenter
was
dry
Nurse
to
the
holy
Son
of
the
most
high
God
;
and
divers
mean
men
have
had
a
hand
in
repairing
of
Churches
though
they
could
not
perfect
them
;
and
I
am
confident
the
Church
with
her
decencies
and
truths
will
again
be
in
high
esteem
with
moderate
men
,
when
these
foggy
mists
of
our
misled
understandings
are
dispers'd
,
as
God
hath
already
begun
to
manifest
his
divine
power
after
his
own
way
,
without
one
blow
strucken
by
man
as
yet
,
and
many
of
the
opposers
of
Church
and
State
nonplus'd
or
amazedly
astonished
and
vanished
;
and
a
great
part
of
that
prophesie
uttered
by
the
late
King
performed
,
and
all
the
rest
of
it
hasting
by
divine
justice
to
be
made
known
to
all
the
world
,
as
in
the
Kings
Book
of
his
Prophesies
is
foretold
:
Nor
will
he
suffer
those
men
long
to
prosper
in
their
Babel
,
who
build
it
with
the
bones
,
and
cement
it
with
the
bloud
of
their
Kings
.
I
am
confident
they
will
find
avengers
of
my
death
amongst
themselves
▪
the
injuries
I
have
sustained
from
them
shall
be
first
punished
by
them
,
who
agreed
in
nothing
so
much
as
in
opposing
me
.
Their
impatience
to
hear
the
loud
cry
of
my
bloud
,
shall
make
them
think
no
way
better
to
expiate
it
than
by
shedding
theirs
,
who
with
them
most
thirsted
after
mine
;
who
have
cause
to
fear
,
that
God
will
both
further
divide
,
and
by
mutual
vengeance
afterwards
destroy
.
A
great
part
of
which
Prophesie
hath
already
been
manifested
to
the
observers
of
it
,
and
the
rest
expected
.
But
let
us
the
lovers
of
Sion
and
her
sacred-truths
,
that
have
had
the
hateful
names
of
Malignants
,
&c.
cast
upon
us
,
move
like
sober
men
that
truly
fear
God
,
and
desire
no
revenge
,
but
the
love
of
our
Brethren
that
have
been
too
much
misled
by
Phanatick
humors
,
(
for
love
covereth
a
multitude
of
sins
)
whereof
we
are
all
guilty
,
and
remember
it
is
said
2
Sam.
24.
The
anger
of
the
Lord
was
moved
against
Israel
,
and
he
movedDavid
to
number
Israel
and
Judah
;
and
Israel
was
punished
,
but
the
holy-hearted
King
,
when
he
saw
the
people
in
perplexity
,
cried
out
,
Lo
I
have
sinned
,
and
I
have
done
wickedly
,
but
these
sheep
what
have
they
done
?
let
thine
hand
,
I
pray
thee
,
be
against
me
and
my
Fathers
house
:
And
how
did
our
dear
slain
Sovereign
,
that
meek
Christian
and
tender-hearted
King
,
imitate
that
holy
forespoken-of
King
,
when
he
said
pag.
142.
After-times
may
see
what
the
blindness
of
this
Age
will
not
,
and
God
may
at
length
shew
my
Subjects
,
that
I
chose
rather
to
suffer
for
them
than
with
them
.
Haply
I
might
redeem
my self
to
some
shew
of
liberty
if
I
would
consent
to
enslave
them
;
I
had
rather
hazard
the
ruine
of
one
King
,
than
to
confirm
many
Tyrants
over
them
,
from
whom
I
pray
God
deliver
them
,
what
ever
becomes
of
me
.
Here
was
his
Christian
Charity
shewed
indeed
,
whose
blessed
Soul
,
I
confidently
believe
,
is
crowned
in
eternal
bliss
,
and
enjoyes
that
full
happiness
there
,
that
was
but
promised
To
be
be
made
Glorious
here
:
But
his
Martyrdom
will
make
his
Name
renowned
to
all
generations
to
come
,
and
his
Murderers
as
infamous
to
all
succeeding
Ages
.
FINIS
.
Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
Notes for div A52167e-130
As
the
Covenant
is
in
our
Churches
.
Judges
5.
23.
Exod.
14
11.
Gen.
18.
25.
Acts
12.
22.
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wicked
fly
when
none
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