A declaration of His Highness, with the advice of his council inviting the people of this Commonwealth to a day of solemn fasting and humiliation. Orders in Council. 1655-11-21 England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A80908 of text R211672 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.20[19]). 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. 4 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 A80908 Wing C7078 Thomason 669.f.20[19] ESTC R211672 99897908 99897908 171079 2248515590

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A DECLARATION Of His Highness , with the advice of His Council , inviting the people of this Commonwealth to a Day of Solemn Fasting and Humiliation .

WHen We call to mind , together with the repeated loving kindnesses of God to his People in these Nations , the late rebukes We have received , the Tares of Division that have been sown by the envious one , and the growth they have had , through his Subtilty , amongst Vs , the abhominable blasphemies vented , & spreading of late , through the Apostacy of , and the abuse of liberty by , many professing Religion , the continued Series of Difficulties We have been , and are exercised under , by the secret and open practises of those , that , bearing evil will unto Sion , have Balaam-like attempted all waies to frustrate Our hopes and endeavours of such a Settlement and Reformation as hath been so long contended for ; as also the weight of the work of this Generation .

We have thought it a duty becoming Vs , not only Our Selves to lie low before the Lord , and to have recourse to him by Prayer and Humiliation ▪ but also to call upon , and invite , all the People of God in these Nations to joyn with Vs in Solemn and Earnest Supplications to the Throne of Grace ( a way wherein We have often experimented the good presence of God ) That the Lord will be pleased truly to humble Vs and the Nation under his righteous hand , that We may be every one searching out the plague of his own heart , and turn unfeignedly from the evil of Our waies , that notwithstanding all Our provocations , the Lord may be pleased to return & smile upon Vs .

That he will disappoint the Designs of those that labour to lift themselves up against the interest of Christ and his People .

That he will rebuke the aforesaid evils , and give his people to know the things that belong to their Peace , that so We may with one heart and shoulder serve the Lord both Theirs and Ours .

That his presence may be with those that are more especially engaged in , and entrusted with the great Affairs of the Nation , by a Spirit of Counsel and Wisdom to enable them faithfully to discharge their weighty Trust , and that they may bear some proportion of serviceableness to the great Works , Designs and Promises of God concerning the Kingdom of his Son , our blessed Lord , in these later times , and may be used as Instruments in his hand for the continuance and increase of the Reformation , and the Security and Settlement of these Nations .

Vpon these and such like grounds , We have appointed Thursday the sixth day of December next , to be set apart for a day of Publick Humiliation . And the Ministers of the several Congregations are to give notice hereof on the Lords day next before the said sixth day of December .

Given at Whitehall this 21. day of November 1655.

Printed and Published by His Highness special Commandment .

London , Printed by Henry Hills and John Field , Printers to His Highness , 1655.