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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.
In the third and last place,1 I shall apply my Doctrine to the sons of Levi, and that in a twofold consideration. 1 Actively. 2 Passively.
- 13 application to Ministers.
Actively, because, if we be like our Master, even followers of ⟨p. 18⟩Jesus Christ, or partakers of his unction, then our Ministry will have not only light, but fire in it, we must be burning as well as shining lights; not only shining with the light of knowledge, and of the Doctrine which is according to godliness,1 but burning also with zeal for reforming abuses, and purging of the Church from the dross thereof.2 Which made Ang•s•ine to apply propologically to Ministers that which is said of the Angels of heaven, Psal. 104.4. Who maketh his Angels spirits, and his Ministers a flaming fire. Satan hath many Incendiaries against the Kingdom of Christ. O that we were Christs Incendiaries against the kingdom of Satan. If we will indeed appear zealous for the Lord, let it not seem strange if the Adversaries of Reformation say of us as they said of the Apostles themselves. These that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also. Yet it shall be no grief of heart to us afterward, but peace and joy unspeakable, that we have endeavoured to do our duty faithfully.
Actively, because, if we be like our Master, even followers of ⟨p. 18⟩