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A85505	Things now-a-doing: or, The chvrches travaile of the child of reformation now-a-bearing. In a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons, at their solemne fast, Iuly 31. 1644. By Stanley Gower, sometimes Rector of Brompton-Brian in the County of Hereford, now Preacher of Gods Word at Martins Ludgate, London: and one of the Reverend Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the said House.	Gower, Stanley.	1644 (1644)	Wing G1462; Thomason E3_25; ESTC R2879	23,719	43

all times being the words of the Holy Ghost but also seasonable for so they are at this time they are our very Crisis 1. The Times alike purifying whitening trying times 2. The Persons alike some wicked some wise 3. The Properties alike they act accordingly none of the wicked understand but the wise doe understand So that I may say of my text as our Saviour Christ did of his taken out of another Prophet This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your eares We reade that the same day that the Lord thundred and rained the people greatly feared the Lord This day God thunders many wayes and in my text he also lightens God grant the effect may be answerable So much for the Time Scope I come now to the text Many shall be purified c. It is propheticall and in such we consider The Credit of the Prophet Prophesie it selfe The Credit of the Prophet is not only this that he was an excellent man as we have shewed but that he was also the Holy Ghosts pen-man Wicked Porphyry enemy to Christian Religion makes him little better than an impostor and affirmes this booke was an History writ by some prophetick-wise that lived in or after the dayes of Antiochus Epiphanes but the Septrogint have translated this booke into Greeke 100. yeares before that Antiochus and Iosephus tells how Iaddus an high-Priest shewed Alexander the Great that Prophesie in this booke which fore-told of a King of Graecia that should destroy the Persian Monarchy in confidence whereof Alexander proceeded to that warre and this was at least 60. yeares before Antiochus as Chronologers compute Some Robbins dreame that the booke was writ by the wisemen of the great Synagogue who were in the time of Ezra but how came it then that Daniel is so oft named in the booke and that the Title of the booke in Hebrew is The booke of Daniel But both the one and the other are confuted by our Saviour Christ which determines it both to Daniel and that he was a Prophet and bids us by the way when we reade consider the words of Daniel the Prophet in the verse next following my text And therefore this booke is not to be placed amongst those Scriptures which they call Holy writings but amongst those they call Prophets The Prophesie it selfe of these words is you see of great siding and each side acting accordingly something before the time of the Iewes conversion In which consider two different Subjects Wicked Wise Predicates Different in Effects Many shall be purified made white tried but the wicked shall doe wickedly Degree None of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand Now if the least filing of gold is pretious then of Truth yet shall I but name some severals and insist only according to my time and your patience upon one Proposition I might observe then 1. Godly men are wise and wicked men are soules This appeares from the opposition of subjects Wicked Wise It should be either Wicked Godly or Foolish Wise By rendring therefore as opposite to wicked wise it shewes that wicked are not wise and by tearming those that are not wicked wise it imports that the wise are not the wicked but the godly indeed the word used for wise is applied to godly Teachers ver 2. but when it is opposed as here to wicked it signifieth not teachers only but others too Receive it therefore for a divine maxime I pray you That piety is the best pollicie and godly men are in the Holy Ghosts judgement the wisest men 2. There are many godly wise If many shall be purifide made white and tryed then God be thanked and the Lord encrease the number of them there are many such and not only many but many great men too the word in the Originall signifies both many and great many in number and great in condition as when it is said Many are the troubles of the righteous that is to say many in number great in nature It is indeed rare to have great men good a little goodnesse stands for a great summe amongst great men but yet it is no singular thing there are many such be not ashamed therefore you that are great to be and to be thought to be godly 3. Best may mend and shall be mended They shall be purifide made white and tried that their drosse may be purged The Lord hath his ●laile to thresh out their chaffe his water and sope to make them white and his fire to melt and try them and therfore they are proud not perfect that think they have sound an Hercules pillar to write a ne plus ultra upon 4. Wicked men doe and shall doe wickedly 5. The reason why they doe so is because none of the wicked shall understand 6. The godly wise shall understand when none of the wicked shall Now none of these severals I can insist upon what of them my time and your patience will permit me to speake of I shall graspe in this one Proposition that containes the summe of the verse That the same times and troubles in them which make godly wise men better make wicked men worse And I will not speake so much of Times which comes in more properly in the verse following as of troubles in those times these are hinted in the words purified made white and tried My method for the doctrinall part shall be to shew 1. What tribulations they are by which God doth purifie make white and try his people 2. How they are by these purified made white and tried 3. What is the reason that they have such different effects upon the godly and the wicked For the first They are not all of one sort nor size Here there are three sorts lighter sprincklings in allusion to Iewish purifyings heavier rubbings in allusion to Iewish cleansings and sharpest trials in allusion to Iewish trials The Apostle else-where reduceth them to two Inward fightings outward feares but it matters not so much what they are as whereto they serve for they are but a meanes to an end their bettering and therefore as we say of meanes so much as will serve so doth the Lord proportion the tribulation to the good of his people so much and no more as will serve to purifie m●ke white ●●● try them For the second I will shew you how the Lord by these doth 1. Purifie 2. Make White 3. Try them The Iews had their purification so have Christians There is Christs Blood Heb. 9. 14. Word Ioh. 15. 3. Spirit Mat. 3. But I am no● speaking of these which doe directly and properly tend thereto but of afflictions which by accident serve to that end as you may see Isa. 4. 4. By these now Gods people are purified 2. wayes First From sin committed both originall sin and actuall For originall Solomon tells us Folly is