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Public affections, pressed in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in…Publick affections, pressed in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in…
Public affections, pressed in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: Upon the solemn day of humiliation, Febr. 25. 1645. / By Anthony Burgess, pastor of Sutton-Cold-field: now minister at Laurence Jewry London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of that House.Publick affections, pressed in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: Upon the solemn day of humiliation, Febr. 25. 1645. / By Anthony Burgesse, pastour of Sutton-Cold-field: now minister at Laurence Jewry London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of that House.
London: printed by J.Y. for Thomas Underhill, 1646London: printed by J.Y. for Thomas Vnderhill, 1646
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A SERMON PREACHED Before the Honourable House OF COMMONS, At the public Fast, Febr. 25. 1645.
A SERMON PREACHED Before the Honourable House OF COMMONS, At the publick Fast, Febr. 25. 1645.
NUMB. 11.12. Have I conceived all this people? Have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom (as a nursing father beareth the sucking-child) unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
NUMB. 11.12. Have I conceived all this people? Have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto mee, Carry them in thy bosome (as a nursing father beareth the sucking-childe) unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
The Deliverance of the Israelites out of Egypt, that iron furnace, and the conducting of them through the wilderness unto the land of Canaan, is so famous and remarkable an history, that many after-deliverances given unto the Church of God, are described allusively to this: Thus the bringing out of Babylon temporal, The rescuing of the Church out of Babylon spiritual, is set down with words relating to this grand mercy; yea, it is made ⟨p. 2⟩typical of that great redemption, purchased by Christs blood: For this is a peculiar thing to Gods word, that not only words, but things themselves do signify; only we must not make a type or allegory, but where the holy Ghost giveth ground, lest we should have tot sacramenta, quot ingenii acumina, (as was said of Origen) as many mysterious notions, as men have fancies. This History therefore will serve for our Meridian; and there is scarce any Kingdom or Church, but they have had their Egypts, their Pharaoh's, their bricks to make: and God in great mercy doth sometimes raise up some Moses's and Aaron's for them, providing a land of Canaan, as the comfortable issue of their former labours. The slavish and miserable condition of the Israelites is related