Causes of a solemne fast, appointed by the commissioners of the Generall Assembly, to be kept in all the congregations of this kirk, upon the last Thursday of April, 1646 Church of Scotland. General Assembly. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A79704 of text R212292 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.9[59]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A79704 Wing C4201D Thomason 669.f.9[59] ESTC R212292 99870930 99870930 161157 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A79704) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 161157) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f9[59]) Causes of a solemne fast, appointed by the commissioners of the Generall Assembly, to be kept in all the congregations of this kirk, upon the last Thursday of April, 1646 Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Ker, A. 1 sheet ([1] p.) by Evan Tyler, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, Printed at Edinburgh : 1646. Signed at end: A. Ker. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Church of Scotland -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. Fasts and feasts -- Church of Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Scotland -- History -- Charles I, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A79704 R212292 (Thomason 669.f.9[59]). civilwar no Causes of a solemne fast, appointed by the commissioners of the Generall Assembly, to be kept in all the congregations of this kirk, upon th Church of Scotland. General Assembly. 1646 562 1 0 0 0 0 0 18 C The rate of 18 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-11 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-11 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Causes of a solemne FAST , appointed by the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly , to be kept in all the Congregations of this Kirk , upon the last Thursday of April , 1646. I. BEsides the diverse causes of our former solemne Humiliations , both for the evill of Sin and of Punishment , lying still in a great measure upon the whole Land , wee should lay to heart the late shamefull backsliding and compliance of many with the Enemies , in the houre of temptation . II. It is to be lamented , though the Lord our God hath taken pains to purge us by his Judgments of Sword and Pestilence , yet there is no reformation of our lives , our scumme remains in us , many returning with the dog to their former profanenesse , neglect of Gods worship in Families , uncleannesse , drunkennesse , and other great provocations , as if they had been delivered to do all these abominations : Have we not just cause to mourn and be afraid that the Lord kindle the fire again , heap on more wood , and cause his fury to rest upon us ? III. It is high time when the whole Land is threatned with a new breach from the North , to acknowledge our great and senselesse ingratitude , who have no wayes rendred to the Lord according to the benefits received , though the Lord hath begun to draw back his hand in a sensible and unexpected delivery from the raging Pestilence , and hath given us a little breathing from the cruell insulting Enemie , yet all our promises and vows uttered in the day of our trouble , have proven to be as the early dew and morning cloud ; neither have we brought forth the fruits of righteousnesse , and amendment of our wayes , while the Lord looked for them , after so gracious a Delivery : so that it is just with our God to disappoint us of our expectation , when we look for healing to send new troubles , and to raise up in his wrath some , who have banded themselves together in the North , contrary to our solemne Covenants . IV. Seeing our God hears Prayer , it is our duty to run to him in this day of trouble , and to wrestle with tears and suâ—Źplications , that our God in he might of his power would crush this Cockatrice Egge , that it break not forth into a fierie flying Serpent ; that the insolent pride of the contrivers of this divisive and seditious Bond , may be rebuked by the Lord ; that the simple who have been mis-led , may be convinced and drawn out of the snare , that these who stand , may be stablished by grace in their stedfastnes , and strengthened with the spirit of Unity and Courage to oppose that divisive motion : Lastly , that the Work of Uniformity in Church-government may be finished , our Armies blessed and compassed with Gods favour , and a firme and well-grounded Peace settled betwixt the Kings Majesty and Parliaments of both Kingdomes . A. Ker. Printed at Edinburgh by Evan Tyler , Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty . 1646.