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<HEAD>THE APPREHENSIONS Of &s;ome poor Ob&s;ervers of pre&s;ent Di&s;pen&s;ations, and Providential Actings, imparted to the Lords Remnant in the Nations, for the provoking of them in this day of <HI>Jacobs</HI> trouble, to look unto their Maker, and that their eyes may re&s;pect the Holy One of <HI>I&s;rael.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THE <HI>LORD OF HOSTS</HI> having roared as a Lion from his dwelling place again&s;t his own Heritage, for their halting, &s;ettling on their Lees, &s;avour of the world, and their &s;ore iniquity, &s;o that hee hath &s;mitten <HI>Jacob,</HI> and made the fatne&s;s of his fle&s;h waxe lean, rebuking all his Idols, and di&s;appointing expectations round about, from any &s;hort of his own &s;aving hand, turning many years endeavours, even in the fire, in the&s;e three Nations, into a di&s;maying Chaos of confu&s;ion, whether wee look to Ru|lers, Ruled, Armies, Churches, Prophets, or People; &s;o that wee may &s;ay there is no healing Medicine in any hand, but our breach is wide as the Sea, &amp;c.</P>
<P>And in the &s;en&s;e of great iniquity in all, yet under &s;ome hope wee have again&s;t hope of the Lords plea&s;ure in mercy to re|buke the pride of <HI>MOAB, who &s;o &s;orely revileth his</HI> Heritage, and to ari&s;e for therelief of his people as in <HI>MOUNT PERA|ZIM, and as in the valley of Gibeon,</HI> yea as again&s;t <HI>PHARAOH</HI> of old, to the glorious exaltation of his Son, and &s;alvation and peace of his Subjects, even now the <HI>ASSYRIAN hath &s;pread over his land,</HI> wee account it our duty more earne&s;tly to call unto all, who have received the adoption of children, to appear in the advantage of their <HI>ACCEPTABLE ADVOCATE</HI> at the Throne of the Father, in all meekne&s;s and fear to bewayl over the evils, and intercede for the ble&s;&s;ings needed, in the Nations, and in particular to lay to heart the&s;e things following, which wee have thought on towards their help, and our own, in the time of &s;olemn a&s;&s;embling before him, which we humbly propo&s;e might be very frequent in, the &s;eve|ral A&s;&s;emblies, or remnants of the faithful in the three Nations; and to the end our cry may bee joynt herein at the Mercy-&s;eat, and there may bee a communication of what the Lord in grace &s;hall grant in an&s;wer hereunto, that if <HI>beauty</HI> bee given for <HI>a&s;hes.</HI> wee may al&s;o obtain mercy to abound more in thank&s;giving than heretofore, wee humbly &s;ignifie our intention, if the Lord plea&s;e, to begin our &s;olemn Supplication the next fourth day come &s;e|vennight, being the eleventh day of the eleventh Month, commonly called <HI>January,</HI> and are de&s;irous to under&s;tand from others, and ob&s;erve and com|municate what acceptance the Lord will &s;ignifie, that wee may under&s;tand together, and bee glad in the &s;alvation of God.</P>
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<HEAD>Matters referring to the Churches to bee bewayled.</HEAD>
<ITEM>1. The deep &s;leep and &s;pirit of &s;lumber fallen upon Churches and people of the Lord, and as a &s;ad effect thereof, little di&s;cerning, either what the Lord is doing, or his people ought to do, but a &s;trange divided language among&s;t them calling for a lamentation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. That a &s;pirit of the love of this world, in the profits, plea&s;ures, honour, and reputation thereof, hath in&s;nared &s;o many to the Lords di&s;honour, Truths differvice, and their own hurt, and horrible declining.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. That there is &s;o little zeal or activity for the Lord, or his concerns, in compari&s;on with what hath been, each one now minding his own, but few the things of Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. That in&s;tead of thorow witne&s;s-bearing for the Lord in this day of deep Apo&s;tacy,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See and be|wail the <HI>Doulis Tongued</HI> Decla|ration of 23. People called Anabapti&s;ts, in and about <HI>Lon|don,</HI> deba&s;ing their holy Pro|fe&s;&s;ion, and ex|po&s;ing their di&s;&s;enting bre|thren, with the Quakers, and others, to the Per&s;ecutor, which Decla|ration, we de+te&s;t, and &s;om bapti&s;ed Congregations in, and about <HI>London</HI> di&s;own.</NOTE> co&s;tly &s;ervices are declined, and a fearful unbeleeving confe|deracy rather &s;aid with whom&s;oever the world &s;ayes a confederacy, bowing down the neck to every yoak, like home-born &s;laves, to whom&s;oever, or how&s;oever any get up, or being up, do manage their power.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Matters referring to the Nation to be bewailed.</HEAD>
<ITEM>1 The horrible Treachery that hath lately abounded betwixt Rulers and Ruled, yea, even tho&s;e that have been in neere&s;t bonds related, &s;upplanting and dealing fal&s;ly with each other, to the &s;ore pollution of a righteous profe&s;sion in the land, together with the &s;hamefull profaning the pretence to the fear of the Lord, &s;o often proclaimed to be re&s;pected by Rulers, who in the di&s;tribution of their tru&s;t unto men, have &s;o little truly regarded the &s;ame.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 That a &s;pirit of open prophanene&s;s of all &s;orts increa&s;eth, and that almo&s;t without controul.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 That there is an implacable de&s;perate rage reaching up to heaven again&s;t the Lord his works and people. &s;atisfied with nothing le&s;s than the ruine of all, running back to <HI>Egypt,</HI> and licking up again the vomit of every old exploded abomination, which the late Country in&s;urrections, and City tu|mults abetted &s;o much by men in power, and the National Clergy, &s;ufficiently evidenced.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 That there is continued in this day of Go&s;pel light, that &s;oul-afflicting iniquity, of exacting Tythes, both from the Lords Heritage, and &s;uch as are yet unconverted, and this contended for by the Nations Mini&s;try, a&s;sifted by force over us, ruling by their means, whereby the Lords &s;ervices are loathed, and the Land expo&s;ed to the de&s;troyer, as at <HI>Shiloh</HI> of old.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Particulars to be prayed for.</HEAD>
<ITEM>1 That our dear Redeemer, who both by decree and covenant, &amp;c. is intitled to the rule of Nations, may in this day, when the Lord hath &s;o &s;orely &s;haken other foundations, be more clearly di&s;covered to be the onely Potentate, King of Kings and Kingdoms, and his Laws and Govern|ment in the excellency of them in their own nature &s;o made known, as the&s;e Nations may cloze with them and him, in whom only the Lord hath &s;aid <HI>Nations &s;hall be ble&s;&s;ed.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2 That tho&s;e two great Ordinances of Magi&s;tracy and Mini&s;tery may be brought forth in their truth and beauty, di&s;tingui&s;hed from the counterfeits of them, by pouring forth more anointing to tho&s;e offices, by which it may be demon&s;trated that the &s;ufficiency of both is only of and from the Lord, and that he may in all humility and fear be appealed unto, for a gracious deci&s;ion in this day of the worlds rage, and accu&s;ing his poor people for being again&s;t Magi&s;tracy and Mini&s;tery, whether the accu&s;ed or accu&s;ers are mo&s;t for that which he will own.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 That tho&s;e of the Army and their adherents who have been &s;o forcely vi&s;ited by the Lord, and who&s;e affliction is like to be helped forward, and ad|ded to by unrea&s;onable and cruel revilers, might have that di&s;pen&s;ation of his, &s;o &s;anctified to them, as might tend effectually to renew them to repen|tance, for their great Apo&s;tacy and treacherous dealing with the Lord his cau&s;e and people, that &s;o the Lord in mercy might put a checque to the boundle&s;s rage of the enemy, and avenger, and in due time reprove their in&s;ulting Reprovers.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 That in this day of &s;o eminent a &s;ayler of the vi&s;ible protection of his poor peeled people, he might be earne&s;tly &s;ought unto, and found to bee their &s;ure defence, and yet again this &s;ong might be in their mouths, <HI>SAL&V;ATION IS OF THE LORD, HIS BLESSING IS &V;PON HIS PEOPLE,</HI> and it might be known to the ends of the earth, <HI>that there is no inchantment again&s;t</HI> Jacob, neither is there any divination again&s;t <HI>I&s;rael.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>5 And la&s;tly, but e&s;pec<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">lly, that the &s;pirit might be &s;o poured out upon all the Lords &s;ons and daughters, about whom he hath been hitherto as a wall of fire for defence, that they may weep very bitterly over all iniquity which hath &s;eparated betwixt them and their God, and have great occa&s;ion conti|nued and renewed to cry Grace, Grace, unto his great name, and by recalling former, and better ob&s;erving his works of wonder to come, may be taught to order their conver&s;ation aright, that he may delight to &s;hew his &s;alvations, and increa&s;e in the midde&s;t of them the &s;hout of a King, to whom be do|minion and glory for ever. <HI>Amen.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>John Berwicke,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Phil. Pinchon,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Proud,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Rich. Goodgroom,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hump. Hathorn.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Perc. Goodricke,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Clement Ireton,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wentworth Day,</ITEM>
<ITEM>H. Courtney,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Vernon,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Will. Allen,</ITEM>
<ITEM>H. Danvers,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Will. Launce,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Rich. Bowney,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lewes Powel,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Garbrand,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Rich. Robin&s;on,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jo&s;eph Archer,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John North,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nicho. Gilbert,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tho. John&s;on,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tobias Picks,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Will. Smiter,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Edkins.</ITEM>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Livewell Chapman,</HI> at the Crown in Popes-head Alley. 1660.</P>
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