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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…
A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast Wednesday, March 27, 1644 by George Gillespie.A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast Wednesday, March 27, 1644 by George Gillespie.
London: printed by Robert Bostock, 1644
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, and the more actively you must go about the business. nBe ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord: What greater motive to action then to know that you shall prosper in it; oArise therefore and be doing.
Secondly, and the more actively you must goe about the bunesse. nBe yee stedfast, unmoveable, alwayes abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as yee know that your labour is not in vaine in the Lord: What greater motive to action then to know that you shall prosper in it; oArise therefore and bee doing.
- n1 Cor. 15. 58.
- o1 Cor. 22. 16.
And so I am led upon the third and last part of the Text, of which I shall speak but very little.
The Doctrine is this, Reformation ends not in contemplation, 1but in action: The pattern of the house of God is set before us to the end, it may be followed; and the ordinances thereof to the end they may be obeyed: