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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
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.
This is the manner of Reformation held forth in Scripture, and that in reference. 1. To Magistrates and States men. 2. To Ministers. 3. To a people reformed. 4. To a people not reformed.
In reference to Magistrates and States-men, Reformation is a fire that purgeth away the dross, Isa. 1.25, •6. And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away the dross, and take away all thy tin. Here's the Refiners fire: And the Chaldee paraphrase addeth the Fullers Borith. Then followeth, And I will restore thy Judges as at the first, and thy Counsellors as at the beginning: Afterward, thou shalt be called the City of righteousness, the faithful City. Interpreters note upon that place, that no effectual Reformation can be looked for, till Rulers and Magistrates be reformed; and that therefore the Lord promiseth to purge away the dross ⟨p. 10⟩and tin of corrupt Rulers and Judges, and to give his people such Judges and Rulers as they had of old, Moses, Joshua, the Judges, David, Solomon, and the like.
In reference to Magistrates and States-men, Reformation is a fire that purgeth away the drosse, Isa. 1.25, •6. And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away the drosse, and take away all thy tin. Here's the Refiners fire: And the Chaldee paraphrase addeth the Fullers Borith. Then followeth, And I will restore thy Judges as at the first, and thy Counsellors as at the beginning: Afterward, thou shalt be called the City of righteousnesse, the faithfull City. Interpreters note upon that place, that no effectuall Reformation can be looked for, till Rulers and Magistrates be reformed; and that therefore the Lord promiseth to purge away the drosse ⟨p. 10⟩and tin of corrupt Rulers and Judges, and to give his people such Judges and Rulers as they had of old, Moses, Joshua, the Judges, David, Solomon, and the like.