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 third consideration concerning the Kingdom is this. Notwithstanding ¹of all the happiness and Gospel blessings which it hath wanted in so great a measure, and notwithstanding of all the sins which have so much abounded in it: ^ryet the servants of God have charged it with great presumption, that the Church of England hath said ^swith the Church of Laodicea, I am rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing. It hath bin proud of its Clergy, learning, great revenues, peace, plenty, wealth, and abundance of all things. And as the Apostle ^tchargeth the Corinthians, ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that the wicked ones might be taken away from among you. And would God this presumption had taken an end when God did begin to afflict the Land. It did even make an Idol of this Parliament, and trusted to its own strength and Armies; which hath provoked God so much, that he hath sometimes almost blasted your hopes that way, and hath made you to feel your weakness even where you thought your selves strongest: God would not have England say, ^uMine own hand hath saved me. Neither will he have Scotland to say, My hand hath done it: But he will have both to say, His hand hath done it, when we were lost in our own eyes. God grant that your leaning so much upon the arm of flesh be not the cause of more blows. God must be seen in the work, and he will have us to give him all the glory, and to say ^xThou hast wrought all our works for us. O that all our presumption may be repented of, and that the land may be yet more deeply humbled. Assuredly God will arise and subdue our enemies, and command deliverances for Jacob: but it is as certain, God will not do this, till we be more humbled, and (as the Text saith) ashamed of all that we have done.

A third consideration concerning the Kingdome is this. Notwithstanding ¹