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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.
2. The Lord himself in this same chapter, vers. 7. speaking of the Temple here prophesied of, saith, The place of my Throne, ⟨p. 7⟩and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they nor their Kings &c. Which as it cannot be understood of the Jews after the Captivity, who did again forsake the Lord, and were forsaken of him, as Hierome noteth upon the place; so it can as ill be said, to be already fulfilled upon the Christian Church, but rather that such a Church is yet to be expected in which the Lord shall take up his dwelling for ever, and shall not be provoked by their defilements and whoredoms, again to take away his Kingdom, and to remove the Candlestick.
2. The Lord himselfe in this same chapter, vers. 7. speaking of the Temple here prophesied of, saith, The place of my Throne, ⟨p. 7⟩and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they nor their Kings &c. Which as it cannot be understood of the Jewes after the Captivity, who did againe forsake the Lord, and were forsaken of him, as Hierome noteth upon the place; so it can as ill be said, to bee already fulfilled upon the Christian Church, but rather that such a Church is yet to be expected in which the Lord shall take up his dwelling for ever, and shall not be provoked by their defilements and whoredomes, againe to take away his Kingdom, and to remove the Candlestick.
3. This last Temple is also prophesied of by zIsa. 2. 2. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lords house shall be established in the top of the mountains (even as here Ezekiel did see this Temple upon a very high mountain, chap 40. 2.) and shall be exalted above the hills, and all Nations shall flow unto it, &c.