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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.
For the promise is limited to the time of casting out the Nations and enlarging their borders, (which came not to pass till the days of Solomon) it is certain that from the time of making that promise, the people had not ever liberty and protection for keeping the three solemn Feasts in the place of the Sanctuary: as might be proved from divers foreign invasions and spoilings of that Land for some years together, whereof we read in the book of the Judges. But I go on.
For the promise is limited to the time of casting out the Nations and inlarging their borders, (which came not to passe till the dayes of Solomon) it is certain that from the time of making that promise, the people had not ever libertie and protection for keeping the three solemne Feasts in the place of the Sanctuary: as might be proved from divers forrain invasions and spoylings of that Land for some yeers together, whereof we read in the book of the Judges. But I go on.
In the second place, let God have the glory of his just & righteous dealings. Let us say with Job, I will leave my complaint upon my self, and say unto God, Show me wherefore thou contendest with me. But by all means take heed you conceive not an ill opinion of the Covenant and cause of God, or the reformation of Religion, because of the tribulation which followeth thereupon. Say not, it was a good old world when we burnt incense to the Queen of heaven, for then we were well, and saw no evil. But (said the people to Jeremiah) Since we left off to burn incense to the Queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings to her, we have been consumed by the sword, and by the famine, Jer. 44.17, 18.1 To such I answer in the words of Solomon, Say not thou, what it is the cause that the former times were better then these, for thou diest not enquire wisely concerning this. Was the peoples coming out of Egypt, the cause why their carcasses did fall in the wilderness? or was it their murmuring and rebelling against the Lord, which brought that wrath upon them. If thou wilt enquire wisely concerning this thing, read