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Title:  Queen Esthers resolves: or, A princely pattern of heaven-born resolution, for all the lovers of God and their country: opened in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at the monethly fast, May 27, 1646. / By Richard Heyricke, Warden of Christs Colledge in Manchester in Lancashire, and one of the Assembly of Divines.
Author: Heyrick, Richard, 1600-1667.
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perish, so that their Country perish not, they may be savi∣ours to themselves and to the Country; neither they nor the Country shall perish, witnesse the successe and issue of this Resolution of Esthers perishing: and thus much for the Ob∣servation and Confirmation; I come in the third and last place to the Use and Application.Ʋse 1.Learn, God sometimes brings his people into a perishing condition, he leaves them hopelesse and helplesse, as Orphans and Widdows; the Jews they were at this time in a low and sad condition, the Decree was gone forth, the day was as∣signed, the Executioners ready; the Israel of God they have been as a valley of dead & dry bones,Ezec. 37.without skin, without flesh, without life; the Church of God as Isaac, bound hand and foot, the knife at the throat, the fire burning; as Jonah in the belly of the Whale, in hell, as Christ in the Grave. How desperate was the condition of the Jewish Estate, in the Reign of King Ahaz, they were so low, that they knew not by what possibly they could rise again,Isa. 7.11, 12. God said to him, Aske a sign of the Lord thy God, aske it either in the depth or in the height above; But Ahaz said I will not aske; and why would not he? He thought nothing in heaven, nor in earth could do him good. Israel was in Egypt as a burning Lamp in a smoaking furnace, as Abraham in a deep sleep, full of horror and of great dark∣nesse; in Babylon as a Lyon dead, in Rome as men kild, whose bodies lie unburied; the Church sometimes passeth through the waters, through the Rivers, through the fire, through the flame. Christ the head of the Church (therefore much more the Church) was as a Plant or Root, in a dry ground, without forme,Isai. 53. without comelinesse, without beauty; despised, rejected of men, a man of sorrows, one acquainted with griefes. Yea the Heroes, the worthies, they of the first Three, they are some∣times necessitated to passe through the Pikes, to break through an Host, an Army, to gain a little water. You your selves the Worthies of the Kingdome, have you not severall 0