A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast…A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast…

For first, the set time to build Zion is come, when the people of God take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof, Psal. 102. 13, 14, 16. The stones which the builders of Babel refused, are now chosen for corner stones; and the stones which they chose, do the builders of Zion now refuse: Jer. 51. 26. They shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations. Those that have any thing of Christ and of the Image of God in them, begin to creep out of the dust of contempt, ⟨p. 36⟩and to appear like stars of the morning. Nay to go further then that, the old stones the Jews, who have been for so many ages lying forgotten in the dust, those poor ^kOutcasts of Israel have of •ate come more into remembrance, and have been more thought of, and more prayed for then they were in former generations.

For first, the set time to build Zion is come, when the people of God take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof, Psal. 102. 13, 14, 16. The stones which the builders of Babel refused, are now chosen for corner stones; and the stones which they choosed, doe the builders of Zion now refuse: Ier. 51. 26. They shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations. Those that have any thing of Christ and of the Image of God in them, begin to creep out of the dust of contempt, ⟨p. 36⟩and to appeare like starres of the morning. Nay to go further then that, the old stones the Iewes, who have beene for so many ages lying forgotten in the dust, those poore ^kOutcasts of Israel have of •ate come more into remembrance, and have beene more thought of, and more prayed for then they were in former generations.