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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.
Blessed are they who shall keep their garments clean, and shall be able to say,1 All this is come up on us, yet have we not forgotten thee, nor dealt falsely in thy Covenant.
Thirdly,1 give God the glory of his wisdom, many are now crying, how long Lord wilt thou hide thy self for ever? Shall thy wrath burn like fire? Your answer from God is, that the rod shall be indeed removed, and even cast into the fire in your stead, but when? it shall be when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon Mount Zion, and on Jerusalem. Isa.1 0 12. If the Judgement have not yet done all the work it was sent for,2 then they shall go out from on fire, and another fire shall devour them, saith the Lord. God is a wise refiner, and will not take the silver out of the fire, till the dross be purged away from it. He is a wise Father who will not cast the rod of correction, till it have driven away all that folly which is bound up in the hearts of his children. Behold, therefore saith the Lord, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem, as they gather silver and brass, and iron,and lead, and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it: so will I gather you in mine anger, and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you. He speaks it to those who had escaped the captivity of Jeboiakim, and also the captivity of Jehoiachin, and thought they should be safe and secure in Jerusalem, when their brethren were in Babylon, I will gather you, saith the Lord, even in the midst of Jerusalem, and when thou think you are out of one furnace, you shall fall into another; and if you will not be refined from your dross, you shall never come out of that furnace, but I will melt