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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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The Use is for Exhortation, to be filled with all these excellent qualifications, God hath put an opportunity into our hands, and we have all covenanted according to our places and callings to set upon this work. Let us therefore be humbled and ashamed this day, that we have with no more zeal promoted it. How have Governors, and others, who have not had such advantages, such interests in the Kingdom, done much for Christ and his Ordinances? and do these things speedily, lest hereafter you may in the anguish and grief of your spirits call for the time and opportunities again, but cannot obtain them; let not the generation to come say, our Governors indeed delivered a Common wealth from thraldom, but beset the faithful Ministers, and the godly people of the land, under as many groans and troubles as ever before.
The Use is for Exhortation, to be filled with all these excellent qualifications, God hath put an opportunity into our hands, and we have all covenanted according to our places and callings to set upon this work. Let us therfore be humbled and ashamed this day, that we have with no more zeal promoted it. How have Governours, and others, who have not had such advantages, such interests in the Kingdom, done much for Christ and his Ordinances? and do these things speedily, lest hereaster you may in the anguish and grief of your spirits call for the time and opportunities again, but cannot obtain them; let not the generation to come say, our Governours indeed delivered a Common wealth from thraldome, but beset the faithfull Ministers, and the godly people of the land, under as many groans and troubles as ever before.
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