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A sermon preached before the right honourable the House of Lords in the Abbey…
A sermon preached before the right honourable the House of Lords in the Abbey Church at Westminster, upon the 27th of August, 1645 being the day appointed for solemn and public humiliation : whereunto is added a brotherly examination of some passages of Mr. Colemans late printed sermon upon Job 11.20, in which he hath endeavoured to strike at the root of all church-government / by George Gillespie, minister at Edinburgh.A sermon preached before the right honourable the House of Lords in the Abbey Church at Westminster, upon the 27th of August, 1645 being the day appointed for solemne and publique humiliation : whereunto is added a brotherly examination of some passages of Mr. Colemans late printed sermon upon Job 11.20, in which he hath endeavoured to strike at the root of all church-government / by George Gillespie, minister at Edenburgh.
London: printed by F. Neile for Robert Bostock, 1646
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I deny not, but the Lord Jesus did then begin to set about this work. But that which is more principally here intended, is Christs coming and appearing in a spiritual, but yet most powerful and glorious manner, to erect his Kingdom, and to gather and govern his Churches, by the Ministry of his Apostles and other Ministers, whom he sent forth after his Ascension.
I deny not, but the Lord Jesus did then begin to set about this work. But that which is more principally here intended, is Christs coming and appearing in a spiritual, but yet most powerfull and glorious manner, to erect his Kingdom, and to gather and govern his Churches, by the Ministery of his Apostles and other Ministers, whom he sent forth after his Ascension.
Of this coming he himself speaketh, Matth. 16.28. Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom. 1Mark addeth with power. Neither was that all. He did not so come at that time, as to put forth all his power, or to do his whole work. He hath at divers times come, and manifested himself to his Churches. And this present time is a time of the revelation of the Son of God, and a day of his coming.2 We look also for a more glorious coming of Jesus Christ, before the end be; For the Redeemer shall come unt• Zion, and turn a way ungodliness from Jacob. And he shall destroy Antichrist with the brightness of his coming, 2 Thes. 2.8. In which ⟨p. 3⟩place the Apostle hath respect to Isai. 11.4