Israels prayer in time of trouble with Gods gracious answer thereunto, or, An explication…

When the Children struggled together in the womb of Rebekah, she was thereupon ⟨image 4⟩inquisitive, If it be, Why am I thus? ¹and she addressed her self to God for a resolution. Surely this Nation is become like the womb of Rebekah, the children thereof struggling in their mothers belly together, and when God hath mercifully freed us from foreign Enemies, Brethren are become enemies to brethren, and by their enmities likely to tear and torment the bowels of their mother, and to ruin themselves.

When the Children strugled together in the womb of Rebekah, she was thereupon ⟨image 4⟩inquisitive, If it be, Why am I thus? ¹and she addressed her self to God for a resolution. Surely this Nation is become like the womb of Rebekah, the children thereof strugling in their mothers belly together, and when God hath mercifully freed us from forain Enemies, Brethren are become enemies to brethren, and by their enmities likely to tear and torment the bowels of their mother, and to ruine themselves.

1. 1Gen: 35, 22.

And what have we now to do, but to inquire the Cause of these sad commotions, Why are we thus? And surely the Cause is chiefly where the Disease is, within our selves. We have been like the womb of Rebekah, a barren Nation, not bringing forth fruits of so many mercies as God hath filled us withal. So that now it is no wonder, if God cause us to be in pain within our own Bowels, and to feel the throws and strugglings of a Travelling woman, ¹ready to bring forth her own Confusion, a Benoni, or an Ichabod, a son of Sorrow, and of Shame, to this hitherto so peaceable and flourishing a Kingdom.