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…

TO THE READER.

Divine providence hath made it my •ot, and a Calling hath induced me (who am less then the least of all the servants of Christ) to appear among others in this Cloud of public Witnesses. The scope of the Sermon is, to endeavour the removal of the obstructions both of Humiliation and Reformation; two things which ought to lye very much in our thoughts at this time: Concerning both I shall preface but little. Reformation hath many unfriends, some upon the right hand, and some upon the left: While others cry up that detestable indifferency or neutrality, abjured in our solemn Covenant, in so much that ^aGamaliel and ^bGallio, men who regarded alike the Jewish and the Christian Religion, ^care highly commended, as examples for all Christians, and as men walking by the rules not only of Policy, but of Reason and Religion. Now let all those that are either against us, or not with us, do what they can, the right hand of the most High, shall perfect the glorious begun Reformation: Can all the world keep down the Sun of Righteousness from rising or being risen? can they spread a veil over it? And though they dig deep to hide their counsels; is not this a time of Gods over-reaching and befooling all plotting wits? they have conceived iniquity, and they shall b•ing forth vanity: ^dthey have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: Wherefore we ^e