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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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A Brotherly Examination of some passages of Mr. Colemans late Sermon upon Job 11.20. as it is now Printed and published: By which he hath to the great offence of very many, endeavoured to strike at the very root of all Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Government, contrary to the Word of God, the solemn League and Covenant, other reformed Churches, and the Votes of the Honourable Houses of Parliament, after advice had with the Reverend and Learned Assembly of Divines.
A Brotherly Examination of some passages of Mr. Colemans late Sermon upon Job 11.20. as it is now Printed and published: By which he hath to the great offence of very many, endeavoured to strike at the very root of all Spiritual and Ecclesiasticall Government, contrary to the Word of God, the solemn League and Covenant, other reformed Churches, and the Votes of the Honourable Houses of Parliament, after advice had with the Reverend and Learned Assembly of Divines.
I Have before touched this purpose in the third branch of the third Application of my second Doctrine: and did in my Sermon in the Abbey Church, express my thoughts of it at some length. But as I was then unwilling to fall upon such a Controversy so publicly, & especially in a Fast Sermon, if that which I intend to examine had not been as publicly and upon the like occasion delivered: So now in the publishing, I have thought good to open my mind, concerning this thing distinctly, and by itself. That which had been too late to be preached after Sermon, is not too late to be Printed after Sermon. Others (upon occasion offered) have given their testimony against his Doctrine; And I should think my self unfaithful in the Trust put upon me, if upon such an occasion I should be silent in this business: and I believe no man will think it strange, that a piece of this nature and strain get an Answer: and I go about it, without any disrespect either to the person or parts of my Reverend Brother. Only I must give a testimony to the truth when I hear it spoken against, and I hope his Objections have made no such impression in any mans mind, as to make him unwilling to hear an Answer. Come we therefore to the particulars.