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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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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,1 which is the last Book of the old Testament. For all the Prophesies registered in the old Testament were before Nehemiahs time: which thus appeareth. All but the three last were before the Captivity of the Jews in Babylon. Two of those last three,2 Haggai and Zechary uttered their Prophesies about the time that the Temple was finished, in the four first years of Darius his reign. Malachi who is the last of all the Prophets prophesied anon after the Temple was built,3 as is evident by the main scope of his Prophecy: So as he may well be thought to have uttered his Prophecy in the days of Darius, or in that time of Artaxerxes reign, wherein Ezra came first to Jerusalem. For Malachi is supposed to be Ezra, and called Malachi, because he was the Lords Messenger.