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A42767	A sermon preached before the right honourable the House of Lords in the Abbey Church at Westminster, upon the 27th of August, 1645 being the day appointed for solemne and publique humiliation : whereunto is added a brotherly examination of some passages of Mr. Colemans late printed sermon upon Job 11.20, in which he hath endeavoured to strike at the root of all church-government / by George Gillespie, minister at Edenburgh.	Gillespie, George, 1613-1648.	1646 (1646)	Wing G759; ESTC R30413	43,318	49

interested in him that sin is himself and his corruptions are his members therfore when we leave off sin we are said to live no more to our selves And morification is the greatest violence that can be done to nature therefore it is called a cutting off of the chief members of the body Mark 9.43.45.47 a salting with salt and a burning with fire ver. 49. a ciccumcision Col. 2.11 a crucifying Rom. 6.6 So that nothing can be more difficult or displeasing yea a greater torment to flesh and blood Yet now art thou willing notwithstanding of all this to take Christ on his own terms to take him not only for rightousnesse and life but to take him as a refiners fire as fullers sope O that there were such a heart in thee When Christ bids thee pluck out thy right eye and cut off thy right hand say not in thy heart how shall I do without my right eye and my right hand Nay thou shalt do well enough thou shalt even enter into life without them thou shalt be a gainer and no looser Say not thou how shall I go through this refining fire fear not thou shalt lose nothing but thy drosse Thus get thy heart wrought to a willingnesse and a condesending in the point of mortification Lastly if you say But after all this how shall I attain unto it put thy self in the hands of Iesus Christ trust him with the work if you mark the Text here and the verse that followeth Christ is both the refiner and the refiners fire thou shalt be refined by him and thou shalt be refined in him Thou deceivest thy self if thou thinkest to be refined any other way but by this refiner and in this refiners fire The blood of Christ doth not onely wash us from guilt but purge our consciences from dead works to serve the living God Heb. 9.10 and they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Gal. 5.24 Here you may see the thing is feceable and attainable and not onely by an Apostle or some extraordinary man but by all that are Christs Being his and in him they are inabled through his strength to crucifie the flesh with the affections and lusts thereof FINIS A Brotherly Examination of some passages of Mr. Colemans late Sermon upon Job 11.20 as it is now Printed and published By which he hath to the great offence of very many endeavoured to strike at the very root of all Spiritual and Ecclesiasticall Government contrary to the Word of God the solemn League and Covenant other reformed Churches and the Votes of the Honourable Houses of Parliament after advice had with the Reverend and Learned Assembly of Divines I Have before touched this purpose in the third branch of the third Application of my second Doctrine and did in my Sermon in the Abbey Church expresse my thoughts of it at some length But as I was then unwilling to fall upon such a Controversie so publickly especially in a Fast Sermon if that which I intend to examine had not been as publikly and upon the like occasion delivered So now in the publishing I have thought good to open my mind concerning this thing distinctly and by itselfe That which had been too late to be preached after Sermon is not too late to be Printed after Sermon Others upon occasion offred have given their testimony against his Doctrine And I should think my self unfaithful in the Trust put upon me if upon such an occasion I should be silent in this businesse and I beleeve no man will think it strange that a peece of this nature and strain get an Answer and I go about it without any disrespect either to the person or parts of my Reverend Brother Onely I must give a testimony to the truth when I hear it spoken agai●st and I hope his Objections have made no such impression in any mans mind as to make him unwilling to hear an Answer Come we therefore to the particulars Foure rules were offered by the Reverend Brother as tending to Unity and to the healing of the present Controversies about Church-Government But in truth his cure is worse than the disease and instead of making any agreement he is like to have his hand against every man and every mans hand against him The first Rule was this Est●blish as few things Jure Divino as can well be Which is by Interpretation as little fine gold and as much drosse as can well be The words of the Lord are pure words as silver tried in a furnace of earth purified seven times What you take from the Word of God is fine gold tried in the fire But an holy thing of mans devising is the drosse of silver Can he not be content to have the drosse purged from the silver except the silver it self be cast away The very contrary rule is more sure and safe which I prove thus If it be a sin to diminish or take ought from the Word of God in so much that it is forbiden under pain of taking away a mans part out of the Book of Life and out of the holy City then as many things as are to be established Jure Divino as can well be But it is a sin to diminish or take ought from the Word of God in so much that it is forbiden under pain of taking away a mans part out of the book of life and out of the holy City Therefore as many things are to be established Jure Divino as can well be It must be remembred withall 1. That the question is not now whether this or that form of Church-Government be Jure Divino but whether a Church-Government be Jure Divino Whether Jesus Christ have thus far revealed his will in his Word that there are to be Church-censures and those to be dispenced by Church-Officers The Brother is for the Negative of this Question 2 Neither is it stood upon by any so far as I know that what the Parliament shall establish concerning Church-Government must be established by them Jure divino If the Parliament shall in a Parliamentary and Legislative way establish that thing which really and in it self is agreeable to the Word of God though they do not declare it to be the will of Jesus Christ I am satisfied and I am confident so are others This I confesse that it is incumbent to Parliament-Men to Ministers and to all other Christians according to their vocation and interest to search the Scriptures and thereby to info●● their own and other mens Consciences so as they may do in faith what they do in point of Church-Government that is that they may know they are not sinning but doing the will of God And it ought to be no prejudice nor exception against a Form of Church-Government that many learned and godly Divines do assert it from Scripture to be the will of God And why should Jus divinum be such a Noli me tangere

Many shall be purified and made white and tried where the same word is used from which I said before the fullers sope hath its name The Doctrine shall be this Tribulation doth either accompany or follow after the work of Reformation or purging of the house of God So it was when Christ himself came into his Temple Luk. 12.49 I am come to send fire on the earth vers. 51. Suppose ye that I am come to send peace on earth I tell you nay but rather divis●●on So it was when the Apostles were sent forth into the world Peter applieth to that time the words of Joel And I will shew wonders in heaven above and signes in earth beneath blood and fire and vapour of smoke the Sun shall be turned into darknesse and the Moon into blood Acts 2.19 20. The meaning is such tribulation shall follow the Gospel which shall be like the darkening of the great lights of the world and as it were a putting of heaven and earth out of their course so great a change and calamity shall come The experience both of the ancient and now-reformed Churches doth also abundantly confirm this Doctrine Neither must we think that all the calamities of the Church are now overpast Who can be assured that that houre of greatest darknesse the killing of the witnesses is past and all that sad prophecie Rev. 11. fulfilled And if some be not much mistaken it is told Dan. 12.1 that there shall be greater tribulation about the time of the Jews conversion then any we have yet seen At that time saith the Angel to Daniel there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time and at that time thy people shall be delivered every 〈◊〉 that shall be found written in the book I make haste to the Uses and first let me give unto God the glory of his truth if we have been deceived surely he hath not deceived us for he hath given us plain warning in his word and hath not kept up from us the worst things which ever have or ever shall come upon his Church And now when the sword of the Lord hath gotten a charge against these three covenanting and reforming Kingdoms is this any other then the word of the Lord that when Christ cometh into his Temple who may abide the day of his coming and who shall stand when he appeareth so he is like a refiners fire and like fullers sope And for the invasion of Scotland by such an enemy after a reformation is it any new thing May we not say that which is hath been Did not Senacherib invade Judah after Hezekiahs reformation 2 Chro● 32.1 And though after the reformation of Asa and after the reformation of Jehosaphat also the land had a short rest and a breathing time yet not long after a forrain invasion followed both upon the one reformation and the other Nay look what is the worst thing which hath befallen to Scotland as yet as much yea worse hath formerly befallen to the Church people of God toward whom the Lord had thoughts of peace and not of evil to give them an expected end I say it not for diminishing any thing either from the sin or shame of Scotland the Lord forbid we will bear the indignation of the Lord because we have sinned against him we will lay our hand upon our mouth and accept the punishment of our iniquity we will bear our shame for ever because our Father hath spit in our face our Rock hath sold us and our strength hath departed from us But I say it by way of answering him that reproacheth in the gates and by way of pleading for the truth of God Some have objected to our reproach that when the Lord required the Israelites to appear before him in Jerusalem thrice a yeer he promised that no man should invade their habitations in their absence Exod. 34.23.24 which gracious providence of his no doubt saies one continues still protecting all such as are employed by his command yet thath not been so with Scotland during the time of their armies being in England I answer besides that which hath been said already even in this the word and work of God do well agree and that Scripture ought not to be so applyed to us except the Canaanites and the Am●rites and the Jebusites of our time had been all cast out of our borders we find this day too many of them lurking there and waiting their opportunity for the Septuagints and many of the interpreters read that Text thus For when I shall cast out the nations before thee and enlarge thy borders no man shall desire thy land when thou shall go up to appear before the Lord thy God thrice in the yeer And this is the true sence read it as you will For the promise is limited to the time of casting out the Nations and inlarging their borders which came not to passe till the dayes of Solomon it is certain that from the time of making that promise the people had not ever libertie and protection for keeping the three solemne Feasts in the place of the Sanctuary as might be proved from divers forrain invasions and spoylings of that Land for some yeers together whereof we read in the book of the Judges But I go on In the second place let God have the glory of his just righteous dealings Let us say with Job I will leave my comp●aint upon my self and say unto God Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me But by all means take heed you conceive not an ill opinion of the Covenant and cause of God or the reformation of Religion because of the tribulation which followeth thereupon Say not it was a good old world when we burnt incense to the Queen of heaven for then we were well and saw no evil But said the people to Jeremiah Since we left off to burn incense to the Queen of heaven and to poure out drink-offerings to her we have been consumed by the sword and by the famine Jer. 44.17 18. To such I answer in the words of Solomon Say not thou what it is the cause that the former times were better then these for thou diest not enquire wisely concerning this Was the peoples coming out of Egypt the cause why their carcasses did fall in the windernesse or was it their murmuring and rebelling against the Lord which brought that wrath upon them If thou wilt enquire wisely concerning this thing read Zephaniah cap. 1. In the dayes of I siah even in the dayes of Judahs best reformation the Lord sent this message by the Prophet I will utterly consume all things from off the Land v. 2. And I will bring distresse upon men that they shall walk like blind men and their bloud shall be poured out as dust and their flesh as dung vers. 17. What was the reason of it It is plainly told them and