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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.
First, we find here the form and fashion of a house, in which the parts are very much diversified one from another: 1there are in a formed and fashioned house, doors, windows, posts, lintels, &c. There is also a multitude of common stones in the walls of the house. Such a house is the visible ministerial Church of Christ, the parts whereof are parts dissimilares, some Ministers, and Rulers, some eminent Lights; others of the ordinary rank of Christians, that make up the walls. If God hath made one but a small pinning in the wall, he hath reason to be content, and must not say, why am not I a post, or a corner stone, or a beam? Neither yet may any corner stone despise the stones in the wall, and say, I have no need of you.
First, wee finde here the forme and fashion of a house, in which the parts are very much diversified one from another: 1there are in a formed and fashioned house, doores, windowes, posts, lintels, &c. There is also a multitude of common stones in the walls of the house. Such a house is the visible ministeriall Church of Christ, the parts whereof are partes dissimilares, some Ministers, and Rulers, some eminent Lights; others of the ordinary rank of Christians, that make up the walls. If God hath made one but a small pinning in the wall, he hath reason to be content, and must not say, why am not I a post, or a corner stone, or a beame? Neither yet may any corner stone despise the stones in the wall, and say, I have no need of you.
- 1The fashion of the house.
Secondly, the Prophet was here to show them the goings out 1of the house, and the comings in thereof. These are not the same, but different gates; it is plain, chap. 46. 9. When the people of the land shall come before the Lord in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north-gate to worship, shall go out by the way of the south-gate, &c. he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in. And that not only to teach us order, and the avoiding of confusion (occasioned by the contrary tides of a multitude) but to tell us further, that