The author and subject of healing in the church set forth in a sermon…

THE AUTHOR and SUBJECT Of Healing in the Church. Set forth in a SERMON Preached before the Right Honourable the PARLIAMENT of England, at St. Margarets Church in Westminster, on Wednesday April 25. 1660. Being the day of their Assembly.

THE AUTHOR and SUBJECT Of Healing in the Church. Set forth in a SERMON Preached before the Right Honorable the PARLAMENT of England, at St. Margarets Church in Westminster, on Wednesday April 25. 1660. Being the day of their Assembly.

Mal. 4: 2, 3. But unto you that fear my name, shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings, and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. 3. And ye shall tread down the Wicked.

Our Prophet was the last of all the Prophets of the Old Testament, after which they were not to look for any other, till Elijah the forerunner of the Angel of the Covenant (who was the great Prophet of all) should come unto them. The Church appears ⟨p. 2⟩in his time to have been woefully corrupted, by those sharp reprehensions of Priests and people, for corruption of worship, for violation of Covenant, for contumacy against God, for reproaching his ways, and passing an hard and false charge against his services as if they were vain and fruitless. In the midst of this Hypocritical people, the Lord had an Holy remnant who feared his name, and spake often to one another. Both these seemed to call for the coming of Christ, and to delight in the promise of the Angel of the Covenant. chap. 2: 17. 3: 1. And accordingly here is a promise of his coming speedily. But though desired by both, he should come with great difference to the one and the other; to the one after a terrible manner, with refining fire and fullers soap, with fan, and sword, with a spirit of Judgment and burning to consume the stubble, to gather the body of that wicked people into