And O thou the Blessed God of Love, the Father of Mercy, the Prince of Peace, the Spirit ⟨p. 539⟩of Consolation, compose the Disquieted spirits of thy People, and the tumultuous, disjointed state of thy Churches; and pardon our Rashness, Contentions and Blood-guiltiness, and give us not up to the state of the wicked, who are like the raging Sea, and to whom there is no Peace! Lay thy command on our winds and waves, before thy shipwrecked vessel perish: And Rebuke that evil spirit whose name is Legion, which hath possessed so great a part of thine Inheritance: Send forth the spirit of Judgement and Meekness into thy Churches▪ and save us from our Pride and Ignorance with their effects: And bring our feet into the way of Peace, which hitherto we have not known. O close all thy People speedily in loving consultations, and earnest enquiries after Peace. Let them Return from their Corruptions, Contentions and Divisions, and jointly seek thee, asking the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, let us join our selves to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant that shall not be forgotten: Blast all opposing Policies and Powers: Say to these Dead and Dry bones, Live. And out of these Ruins do thou yet erect a City of Righteousness, where thy People may dwell together, in Peaceable habitations; and in the midst thereof, A Temple to thy Holiness: Let the materials of it be Verity and Purity: Let the Redeemer be its Foundation: Let ⟨p. 540⟩Love and Peace cement it into Unity: Let thy Laver and Covenant be the Doors: and Holiness to the Lord be engraved thereon; that buyers and sellers may be cast out, and the common and unclean may know their Place; and let no desolating Abomination be there set up: But let thy People all in one name, in one faith, with one mind, and one soul, attend to thine Instructions, and wait for thy Laws, and submit unto thine Order, and Rejoice in thy Salvation: that the troubled spirits may be there exhilarated, the dark enlightened, and all may offer thee the sacrifice of Praise (without dis-affections, discords or divisions:) that so thy People may be thy Delight, and thou mayst be the chiefest. Delight of thy People; ••d they may Please thee through him that hath perfectly pleased thee.
And O thou the Blessed God of Love, the Father of Mercy, the Prince of Peace, the Spirit ⟨p. 539⟩of Consolation, compose the Disquieted spirits of thy People, and the tumultuous, disjoynted state of thy Churches; and pardon our Rashness, Contentions and Blood-guiltiness, and give us not up to the state of the wicked, who are like the raging Sea, and to whom there is no Peace! Lay thy command on our winds and waves, before thy shipwrackt vessel perish: And Rebuke that evil spirit whose name is Legion, which hath possessed so great a part of thine Inheritance: Send forth the spirit of Judgement and Meekness into thy Churches▪ and save us from our Pride and Ignorance with their effects: And bring our feet into the way of Peace, which hitherto we have not known. O close all thy People speedily in loving consultations, and earnest enquiries after Peace. Let them Return from their Corruptions, Contentions and Divisions, and joyntly seek thee, asking the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, let us joyn our selves to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant that shall not be forgotten: Blast all opposing Policies and Powers: Say to these Dead and Dry bones, Live. And out of these Ruines do thou yet erect a City of Righteousness, where thy People may dwell together, in Peaceable habitations; and in the midst thereof, A Temple to thy Holiness: Let the materials of it be Verity and Purity: Let the Redeemer be its Foundation: Let ⟨p. 540⟩Love and Peace cement it into Ʋnity: Let thy Laver and Covenant be the Dores: and Holiness to the Lord be engraved thereon; that buyers and sellers may be cast out, and the common and unclean may know their Place; and let no desolating Abomination be there set up: But let thy People all in one name, in one faith, with one mind, and one soul, attend to thine Instructions, and wait for thy Laws, and submit unto thine Order, and Rejoyce in thy Salvation: that the troubled spirits may be there exhilerated, the dark enlightned, and all may offer thee the sacrifice of Praise (without dis-affections, discords or divisions:) that so thy People may be thy Delight, and thou mayst be the chiefest. Delight of thy People; ••d they may Please thee through him that hath perfectly pleased thee.
