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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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But in the fourth and last place,1 let us give God the glory of his mercy also, he means to do us good in our latter end. It is the hand of a father, not of an enemy: It is a refining, not a consuming fire. 2The poor mourners in Zion are ready to say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost, we are cut off for our parts: we are like to lie in this fire and furnace for ever, because our dross is is not departed from us, we are still an unhumbled, an unbroken, an unmortified generation; yea, many like Ahaz in the time of affliction trespassing yet more against the Lord, many thinking of going back again to Egypt. To such I have these two things to say for their comfort: First, there is a remnant which shall not only be delivered, but purified, and shall come forth as gold out of the fire. The third part shall be refined, and the Lord shall say, It is my people, Zach. 13.9. And a most sweet promise there is after the saddest denunciation of judgement, Ezek. 14.22, 23. Yet behold therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought both sons and daughters, behold they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings, and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it. And they shall comfort you when you see their ways and their doing•: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord God. Dan. 12.10. Many shall be purified and made ⟨p. 24⟩and tried: but the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand, Jer. 24.7. After the promise of delivering those that were carried away to Babylon, there is another promise added of that which was much better: I will give an heart to know me that I am thy Lord, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, for they shall return unto me with their whole heart,