Three tractates by Jos. Hall, D.D. and B.N.
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- Three tractates by Jos. Hall, D.D. and B.N.
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- Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.
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- London :: Printed by M. Flesher, for Nat. Butter,
- 1646.
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TO ALL CHRISTIAN READERS, Grace and Peace.
THat in a time when wee heare no noise but of drums & Trum∣pets, and talk of nothing but arms, and sieges, and battels, I should write of Devotion, may seem to some of you strange and unseasonable; to me, contrarily, it seems most fit and opportune: For when can it be more proper to direct our addresse to the Throne of Grace, then when we are in the very jaws of Death? Or when should we goe to seek the face of our God, rather, then in the needfull time of trouble?
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Blessed be my God, who in the midst of these wofull tu∣mults, hath vouchsafed to give me these calme, and holy thoughts; which I justly sup∣pose, he meant not to suggest, that they should be smoothered in the brest wherein they were conceived, but with a purpose to have the benefit communi∣cated unto many; Who is there that needs not vehement exci∣tations, and helps to Devotion? and when more then now? In a tempest the Mariners them∣selves doe not onely cry every man to his God, but awaken Jonah, that is fast asleep under the hatches, and chide him to his prayers. Surely, had we not been failing in our Devotions, we could not have been thus universally miserable; That
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duyy, the neglect wherof is guil∣ty of our calamity, must in the effectuall performance of it, be the meanes of our recovery. Be but devout, and we cannot mis∣carry under judgements; Woe is me, the teares of penitence, were more fit to quench the pub∣lique flame, then blood. How soon would it cleare up above head, if we were but holily af∣fected within? Could we send our zealous Ambassadours up to heaven, we could not faile of an happy peace. I direct the way; God bring us to the end; For my own particular practice; God is witnesse to my soule, that (as one, the sense of whose private affliction is swallowed up of the publique) I cease not dayly to ply the Father of mercies with my fervent prayers, that
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he would, at last, be pleased, after so many streames of blood, to passe an act of Pacification in heaven: And what good heart can doe otherwise? Brethren, all ye that love God, and his Church, and his Truth, and his Anointed, and your Country, and your selves, and yours, joyn your forces with mine, and let us by an holy violence make way to the gates of heaven with our Petition, for mercy and peace; and not suffer our selves to be beaten off from the threshold of Grace, till we be answered with a condescent. He, whose good∣nesse is wont to prevent our de∣sires, will not give denials to our importunities.
Pray, and Farewell.
Norwich. March 20. 1643.