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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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A SERMON PREACHED at a late FAST, before the Right Honourable the H… › APPLICATION.
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There is no such way to preserve and increase your honours, as by joining to those whom you are sure to find faithful. Account the service of God your greatest honour. 2 Pet. 1.17. it is said of Christ, he received honour and glory when there came a voice from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. If it be the glory, the excellent glory of Christ, to please his Father; surely it must needs then be yours. Let godliness be set up by you in these latter times, God is about to advance Religion, and happy are you that ever you were born, if you be made instrumental for it.
There is no such way to preserve and increase your honours, as by joyning to those whom you are sure to find faithfull. Account the service of God your greatest honour. 2 Pet. 1.17. it is said of Christ, he received honour and glory when there came a voyce from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Sonne in whom I am well pleased. If it be the glory, the excellent glory of Christ, to please his Father; surely it must needs then be yours. Let godlinesse be set up by you in these latter times, God is about to advance Religion, and happy are you that ever you were born, if you be made instrumentall for it.
Let there be something spared out of that abundance God hath given you for the furtherance of the Gospel; how great the want of able men fitted for the Ministry is, the woeful dark places of the Kingdom give sad testimony, except God persuade the hearts of those who are of estates, and have power to help, dreadful darkness will come upon a great part of the Kingdom, before we are aware. There are now many hopeful youths godly, and fitted for the University; in the Western parts; especially, where their parents have been plundered, spoiled of their estates, now wholly disabled to maintain them at the University. Here are crying objects of charity, yea, the relieving of them that ⟨p. 47⟩they may be fitted for the ministry, would be a work fit for the charity and piety of a State to be exercised in. If Learning be not maintained, not only Ignorance, but Barbarism will come in upon us; the Lord deliver us from that judgement of an ignorant Ministry. I this day in the Name of Jesus Christ beseech you, who have had your estates, or a great part of them preserved, that before you sleep, you would in your secret thoughts separate something for this so great, so good a work; this would be a good testimony of your thankfulness to God for the preservation of them from the common burning. If some of you would but set aside so much for the promoting of the preaching of Jesus Christ as you have heretofore spent upon your dogs, the blessing of many souls may be upon you and your posterity; and if hereafter your selves or some of your children should come into such congregations, to whom you have been the means of sending the Gospel, and you or they should hear that people blessing God for those who were the instruments of so great a blessing to their souls, would not this be a more delightful sound in your or their ears, then a cry of dogs? The same charge that heretofore went for that, would help very much in this so great a work, so worthy of those who profess they live and enjoy all they have, that they may promote the honour of Jesus Christ in their generation.