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The reformation of the church to be endeavoured more then that of the common-wealth,…The reformation of the church to be endeavoured more then that of the common-vvealth,…
The reformation of the church to be endeavoured more then that of the common-wealth, declared, in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords at the public fast, August 27. 1645. / By Anthony Burges, pastor of Sutton Coldfield, and now preacher at Laurence-Jury, London.The reformation of the church to be endeavoured more then that of the common-vvealth, declared, in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords at the publike fast, August 27. 1645. / By Anthony Burges, pastour of Sutton Coldfield, and now preacher at Laurence-Jury, London.
London: printed by G.M. for T. Underhill, 1645London: printed by G.M. for T. Vnderhill, 1645
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A SERMON Preached before the Right Honourable the House of LORDS, A… › Part › Application
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3. Humble your selves for former known pollutions, or for negligence and remissness in reformation, when opportunities have been offered. Who knoweth whether much of this work that is now to do, might not have been dispatched heretofore, if the hearts of men in place had been for it? Can we say, that it is not the sin of Parliaments and governors heretofore, that the Ark is not already settled? and how necessary our humiliations are for former known defilements and superstitions, appeareth, Ezek. 43.10, 11.
3. Humble your selves for former known pollutions, or for negligence and remissenesse in reformation, when opportunities have been offered. Who knoweth whether much of this worke that is now to do, might not have been dispatched heretofore, if the hearts of men in place had been for it? Can we say, that it is not the sinne of Parliaments and governours heretofore, that the Ark is not already setled? and how necessary our humiliations are for former known defilements and superstitions, appeareth, Ezek. 43.10, 11.
4. Remember these considerations.
1. What the thoughts are which God hath about a worship that is none of his, Joh. 4. You worship you know not what; men do they know not what, howsoever they dote most upon their own invented worship. There is a Papist Raymundus saith, There are as many mysteries in the Mass, as drops in the sea, Angels in Heaven, Stars in the firmament, atoms in the Sun-beams, or sand in the sea shore; but that which is highly esteemed among men, is abominable before God.