Nehemiahs Tears and Prayers for Judahs Affliction, Parliamentary order – Dedication
Die Mercurii 24. April, 1644.
IT is this day ordered by the Commons aſſembled in Parliament, That Sr Robert Harley and Sr Robert Pye do from this Houſe give thanks unto Doctor Stanton and Maſter Greene, for the great paines they tooke in the Sermons they preached this day at St Magarets Weſtminster at the intreatie of this Houſe, it being the day of publike Humiliation: And they are deſired to print their Sermons: And it is ordered that none ſhall preſume to print their, or either of their Sermons, but by the Authoritie of their hands writing.
H. Elſyng. Cler. Parl. D. Com.
I appoint Philemon Stephens to print my Sermon,
John Greene.
NEHEMIAH'S Teares and Prayers FOR JƲDAH'S AFFLICTION, And the ruines and repaire of JERƲSALEM.
Delivered in a SERMON in the Church of Magarets Weſtminster, before the Honourable Houſe of COMMONS upon the day of their Monethly Humiliation, April 24. 1644.
BY JOHN GREENE Maſter of Arts, late Paſtour of Pencomb in the Countie of Hereford.
Iſai. 22. 4.
Look away from me, I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, becauſe of the ſpoiling of the daughter of my people.
Ver. 9.
Ye have ſeen alſo the breaches of the citie of David, that they are many.
Pſal. 51. 18.
Do good in thy good pleaſure unto Sion: build thou the wals of Jeruſalem.
LONDON, Printed by G. M. for Philemon Stephens, and are to be ſold at his ſhop at the golden Lion in Pauls Church-yard. 1644.
PIISSIMO, PRVDENTISSIMO, AMPLISSIMOQVE SENATVI DOMVS COMMVNIVM IN PARLIAMENTO, CLEMENTISSIMA DEI PROVIDENTIA CONVOCATO, POTENTISSIMA DEI TUTELA CONTINUATO, MEDITATIVNCVLAS HAS SVAS TENUICULAS JUSSU è SUGGESTO EDITAS, HORTATU VESTRO TYPIS EVULGATAS, HONORIS ET OBSERVANTIAE ERGO SUMMA CUM HUMILITATE D. O. V.
Amplitudini veſtrae in Domino obſequentiſſimus Joh. Greene.