Hi1ory ofthe Puritans, examin'd. 2 29 attentive iluditories ; while the ordinary Servire of the Church was deferted, as formal, lifelefi, a,id without Spirit. Some Inftances of the Fervency and Devotion of thofe Miners, who had crouded and attentive Au- ditaries, are as follow. * ' W. pray Thee, O God (lays one) aot only to deftroy Heaven, but all the Glory that hath been in the Soul of thy People, and create a new Heaven, and a new Earth, wherein may dwell the immediate Afhes of thy own Gory : Let the Keys of our Hearts, O Lord, hang at the Girdle of our God ; O Lord, tye our Hands behind us, that we may not cut the Throats of our own Souls.' Another being at a lofs in his Prayers, prayed to God to give him fome Syrup of Bar -. ' berries.' -j- One Robinfon, in his Prayer at Southampton, 25th Augufi, 1642, had the following Exprefi'ions O God, O God, many are the hands that are lift up againft us ; but there is one God : It is ' thou thyfelf, O Father, who doft us more Mif chief than they all.' Mr. Evans, Preacher ofSt., Clement's, temple-Bar, expoftulated thus with God, [Dugdale, p. 568.1 O Lord, when wilt thou take a,. Chair, and fit amongt the Houfe ofPeers ? Andwhen, O God, when I fay, wilt thou vote amongft the Honou- rable Houle of Commons, who are fo zealous of thine Honour ?' And Mr. hynes, [a noted Man in thofe Times, and one of the Ministers who prayedwithFervency,,] in the fame Church, faid in his Prayer, [Dugdale, p. 57o.] ` O Lord, thou haft never given us. a * R. Seppens's Preacher's Guard and Guide. Printed,by R. Roy- lion, 1664, p. S3. penes me. t Id ib d. I: Sir William I)Kpdale's short View of the Troubles, p. fá8. Vitory
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