A85487:114
The saints support, set out in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of…
The saints support, set out in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament. At a public fast, 29. June, 1642. By William Gouge.The saints support, set out in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament. At a publick fast, 29. Iune, 1642. By William Gouge.
London: printed by G. M. for Joshua Kirton, 1642
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That ye may the better discern the true and just ground of all these points, and especially of this Patriots confidence, whereby he was emboldened to put his God in mind, to think on him for good according to all that he had done for his people. I suppose ⟨p. 14⟩it will not be impertinent, nor yet unprofitable to give you a brief view of such particular acts done by him, as are in this book distinctly specified from the beginning to my Text. Hereby ye may have a pertinent pattern for Justification of what ye have done, and direction for what remains yet to be done: and withal ye may see in what courses and causes ye may with confidence depend on your God and say, Think on us our God for good, according to all that we have done for this people.
That ye may the better discerne the true and just ground of all these points, and especially of this Patriots confidence, whereby he was enboldened to put his God in mind, to thinke on him for good according to all that he had done for his people. I suppose ⟨p. 14⟩it will not be impertinent, nor yet unprofitable to give you a briefe view of such particular acts done by him, as are in this booke distinctly specified from the beginning to my Text. Hereby yee may have a pertinent patterne for Justification of what ye have done, and direction for what remains yet to be done: and withall ye may see in what courses and causes yee may with confidence depend on your God and say, Thinke on us our God for good, according to all that we have done for this people.
1. The first particular noted of him is an inquisitive disposition after the State of the Church, how it fared with her. So soon as he heard that Hanani and others were come from Judah, 1he asked them concerning the Jews, and concerning Jerusalem. He himself was in a safe and secure place: He had the favour of the greatest Monarch then on Earth: yet he thought not that enough: he must know how the Church doth. By this enquiry he came to know what otherwise, it may be, he should never have known: and then the Church might have wanted all that good which he did for it.