forth and hazzard your selves to the utmost for relieving Mercy. Mordecais Motive to Esther was, it was her Nation, its mine to you, they are your Nations, it is your Church, your Families, your Houses, your Estates, your Children, Wives, Selves, Souls, your Gospell, Ordinances, are aim∣ed at; O pray, pray, Fast and pray, cry mightily, all's at stake.
2. Motive. Because such duty, if the Church be fick or Sentenced unto death under a decree: Nay, although with Ezekiah it hath received a message, That it shall dye and not live, yet it is of power to procure God to visit it, and one of his visites is halfe the recovering of it, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••8.14. It is some comfort to men, that are labouring under hard under∣takings, that they labour not in vain; be of good courage, and of good comfort, Your labour is not in vaine with the Lord, for his decreed Church to ruine.
3. Motive. It is your last refuge; it is that besides which you have hardly any thing left you. If men have nothing left, or have spent all but their fingers ends, to maintaine them and their families, they had need ply them diligently, and cherish them carefully. If a house stand but on one pil∣lar, it had need oft to be viewed for repaires, and to see that be safe and well founded; prayer is as it were the only Pil∣lar of the Church, it is as the fingers ends, we had need im∣ploy our fingers ends, for our selves, and our fellow-mem∣bers in misery, if we intend a livelihood.
4. Motive. You are all sentenced, and by your Enemies appoynted to dye; I hope no true member of the Church but will speake a word for himselfe. (I confesse our owne guilt might sow up our lips, and we might bee left word∣lesse:) but yet if God offer thee an opportunity, ply him for thy life and the Churches safety with importunity, for if thou speed not this way, thou art undone for ever. Your