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A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in the Abbey…A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peeres, in the Abbey…
A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in the Abbey at Westminster, the 26. of Novemb. 1645. Being the day appointed for solemn and public humiliation. / By Jer: Burroughs. Published by order of the said House.A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peeres, in the Abbey at Westminster, the 26. of Novemb. 1645. Being the day appointed for solemne and publique humiliation. / By Jer: Burroughes. Published by order of the said House.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1645
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5. The excellency of this lesson.
1. When this is learned, grace in you will be very conspicuous; it will appear in the lustre of it as a Diamond in a golden ring,1 or rather set in a Crown, sparkles, and is more glorious then in a dirty rag. Zech. 9.16. there is a Prophecy that the Saints shall be as the stones of a Crown lifted up; it is in part made good, when grace appears in the glory of it in you who are in eminent place.
1. When this is learned, grace in you will be very conspicuous; it will appeare in the lustre of it as a Diamond in a golden ring,1 or rather set in a Crowne, sparkles, and is more glorious then in a dirty rag. Zech. 9.16. there is a Prophesie that the Saints shall be as the stones of a Crowne lifted up; it is in part made good, when grace appears in the glory of it in you who are in eminent place.
- 1Magna faelicitatis est, à faelicitate non vinci. Aug.
2. You may do abundance of good: many souls will bless God for you, and for all the abundance you enjoy, of which there is so good an improvement. Blessed be God that ever such men lived in such places and times; the Cause of God, and the good of his Saints, how hath it been promoted by them! will not this be a greater good to you, then all your titles of honour, and bravery of your lives?