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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.
TO THE CHRISTIAN READER.
I Have in this Sermon applied my thoughts toward these three things; 1 The soul-ensnaring Error of the greatest part of men, who choose to themselves such a way to the kingdom of Heaven as is broad, and smooth, and easy, and but little or nothing at all displeasing to flesh and blood; like him that tumbled down upon the grass and said, utinam hoc esset laborare. 2 The grumbling and unwillingness which appeareth in very many, when they should submit to that Reformation of the Church which is according to the mind of Jesus Christ;1 like them that said to the Seers, See not;2 and to the Prophets, Prophecy not unto us right things; speak unto us smooth things; and again, Let us break their lands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. 3 The sad and desolate Condition of the Kingdom of Scotland, then calling for our prayers and tears, and saying,3 Call me not Naomi (pleasant) call me Morah (bitter) for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. We were pressed out of measure,4 above strength, and had the sentence of death in our selves, that we should not trust in our selves, but in God which raiseth the dead; who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver, ⟨image 3⟩in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; Our Brethren also helping together by prayer for us, that for the mercy bestowed on us by means of the prayers of many,