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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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When I speak against liberty of conscience, it is far from my meaning to advise any rigorous or violent course against such as being sound in the faith and holy in life, and not of a turbulent factious carriage, do differ in smaller matters from the common rule.1 Let that day be darkness, let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it, in which it shall be said that the Children of God in Britain are Enemies and persecutors of each other. He is no good Christian who will not say Amen to the prayer of Jesus Christ,2 that all who are his may be one in him. If this be heartily wished, let it be effectually endeavoured. And let those who will choose a dividing way, rather then an Uniting way, bear the blame.
When I speak against libertie of conscience, it is far from my meaning to advise any rigorous or violent course against such as being sound in the faith and holy in life, and not of a turbulent factious cariage, do differ in smaller matters from the common rule.1 Let that day be darknes, let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it, in which it shall be said that the Children of God in Brittain are Enemies and persecutors of each other. He is no good Christian who will not say Amen to the prayer of Jesus Christ,2 that all who are his may be one in him. If this be heartily wished, let it be effectually endeavoured. And let those who will choose a dividing way, rather then an Uniting way, bear the blame.