The fifth and last remedy is, by flying unto God in prayer with a serious and unfeigned repentance for sin. This is the chief, the certain, and never failing remedy which Gods children have used at all times in their distresses. When the children of Israel sighed by reason of the Egyptian bondage, and cried unto God, then the Lord came down and sent Moses to deliver them, Exod. 2. 23. and Chap. 3. 7 8. 10. In the time of the Judges, when the Israelites repented of their wickedness, and cried unto the Lord, the Lord always raised them up deliverers, Judg. 3. 9 15. and Cha• 4. 3. 24. and Ch. 6. 6, 14. and Chap. 10. 15, 16. and Chap. 11. 29. After their return from Babylon, being in miserable slavery under the Kings of Assyria, they assembling with fasting and with sackcloths, and with earth upon them, repenting and acknowledging Gods goodness and their ingratitude, humbly craving his mercy. And then they made a sure covenant (not a Covenant of rebellion by force to resist their Sovereign, and to free themselves from oppression, as some corrupters of the truth would now a days persuade ignorant people) but a covenant or oath to walk in Gods Law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord their God, and his judgements and his Statutes, Nehem. 9. 1, 2, 38. •nd Chap. 10. 29. The Psalms do plentifully show Davids practice in this kind, Psal. 108. 12. and 109. 26. and 1 12. 4, 7. and 142. 4. 5. The Prophet Micah having set forth the small number of the righteous, and the wickedness of these times concludeth with this, as the only sure remedy, Therefore will I look unto the Lord: I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause and execute judgement for me, Mic. 7. 7, 9. Whereby it is clear, that the surest means of release from slavery, oppression, or any other misery whatsoever▪ which the vilest King can bring upon his Subjects, is by prayer unto God with a serious repentance for sin, and a patient expectation of Gods mercy until his time appointed.
The fifth and last remedy is, by flying unto God in prayer with a serious and unfained repentance for sin. This is the chief, the certain, and never failing remedy which Gods children have used at all times in their distresses. When the children of Israel sighed by reason of the Egyptian bondage, and cryed unto God, then the Lord came downe and sent Moses to deliver them, Exod. 2. 23. and Chap. 3. 7 8. 10. In the time of the J•dges, when the Israelites repented of their wickednesse, and cried unto the Lord, the Lord alwayes raised them up deliverers, Judg. 3. 9 15. and Cha• 4. 3. 24. and Ch. 6. 6, 14. and Chap. 10. 15, 16. and Chap. 11. 29. After their return from Babylon, being in miserable slaverie under the Kings of Assyria, they assembling with fasting and with sackclothes, and with earth upon them, repenting and acknowledging Gods goodnesse and their ingratitude, humbly craving his mercy. And then they made a sure covenant (not a Covenant of rebellion by force to resist their Soveraigne, and to free themselves from oppression, as some corrupters of the truth would now a dayes perswade ignorant people) but a covenant or oath to walk in Gods Law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and doe all the commandements of the Lord their God, and his judgements and his Statutes, Nehem. 9. 1, 2, 38. •nd Chap. 10. 29. The Psalmes do plentifully shew Davids practice in this kinde, Psal. 108. 12. and 109. 26. and 1 12. 4, 7. and 142. 4. 5. The Prophet Micah having set forth the small number of the righteous, and the wickednesse of these times concludeth with this, as the onely sure remedy, Therefore will I looke unto the Lord: I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. I will beare the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, untill he plead my cause and execute judgement for me, Mic. 7. 7, 9. Whereby it is clear, that the surest meanes of release from slaverie, oppression, or any other misery whatsoever▪ which the vilest King can bring upon his Subjects, is by prayer unto God with a serious repentance for sin, and a patient expectation of Gods mercy untill his time appointed.
