Two discourses showing, I. That the Lords ears are open to the prayers of…Two discourses shewing, I. That the Lords ears are open to the prayers of…

And shall we not be Instant in Prayer for our own most sinful Nation, which is under the guilt of bloody crimes, and yet has had Miraculous deliverances. When was there a Nation (except the Jewish) that manifested a greater contempt of the Gospel? What shall we say when near upon two Thousand Ministers of God were silenced in one black day? Was there ever Nation that declared a greater Enmity against being a Reformed Nation, when a Covenant for Reformation was burnt after the most ignominious manner that possibly could be? And is there not a cry of Innocent blood! In some of the late unhappy Reigns were not Lives, and some of them of Eminent Men taken away by forms of Law, just as Naboths was in the days of Ahab, and not one ⟨p. 43⟩of those Murderers called to any account? How many hundreds have dyed in Prisons for their Religion in the time of the Caroline Persecution? And has there not been a National Profanation of the blood of Christ, by means of a Sacramental Test? Pareus said to the Heydelbergians, that he did not wonder at the War & Blood shed in Germany, when he considered how the blood of the Son of God was profaned by admitting wicked men to the Lords Table. And does not the Nation seem to be incorrigible under the dispensations of God? National Judgments have come upon us. Was it not so when one hundred thousand were swept out of one City by the Pestilence in one Year? And when in the next Year that Capital City was set on fire and thirteen thousand Houses burnt to the ground. And has not God tried the Nation with Mercies and Deliverances? How ⟨p. 44⟩great a Mercy was the Revolution Twenty-eight Years ago, when Popery and Slavery was coming in like a flood, but that Providence gave a check to it. And when not two Years ago, the Nation was in the hands of treacherous Ministers who betrayed it to the French King, and the way was paved for a Popish Pretender to come to the Throne, GOD by one Death has made a mighty change in Three Kingdoms, and instead of a Queen has given us a wise KING: but an ungrateful Generation has not been Thankful to GOD for so great a favour of Heaven, to a sinful Nation. A wicked sort of men who assume and arrogate to themselves the Name of the Church, but are enemies to the true Church of CHRIST, have joined with Papists, and have laid waste the Houses in which the Lords Servants used to worship Him;

And shall we not be Instant in Prayer for our own most sinful Nation, which is under the guilt of bloody crimes, and yet has had Miraculous deliverances. When was there a Nation (except the Jewish) that manifested a greater contempt of the Gospel? What shall we say when near upon two Thousand Ministers of God were silenced in one black day? Was there ever Nation that declared a greater Enmity against being a Reformed Nation, when a Covenant for Reformation was burnt after the most ignominious manner that possibly could be? And is there not a cry of Innocent blood! In some of the late unhappy Reigns were not Lives, and some of them of Eminent Men taken away by forms of Law, just as Naboths was in the days of Ahab, and not one