A85487:44
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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1. The many, great, good things which he had done for the Church and State.
2. The many, great, desperate dangers which ⟨p. 2⟩he had met with, and knew he should further meet with in prosecuting his good beginnings.
Whether there be not at this time the like occasions for the representative body of this Kingdom, as one man, to pray and say, Think upon me my God for good, according to all that I have done for this people, let the times judge.
Whether there be not at this time the like occasions for the representative body of this Kingdome, as one man, to pray and say, Thinke upon me my God for good, according to all that I have done for this people, let the times judge.
To this Text the more diligent heed is to be given, in that it containeth the last memorable matter which the Holy Ghost saw meet to commend to his Church in the old Testament. For the former part of it (wherein the main substance of the whole lieth) is repeated in the last clause of this Book,