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A95845	Two sermons preached before His Majesties High Commissioner; and the Estates of Parliament By the appointment of the provinicial Synod of Lothian and Tweddale. Upon Sabbath the 7th. of May, 1693. Unto which is subjoyned the sermon preached at the opening up of the Synod. May 2. 1693. By Mr. William Vetch minister of Peebles.	Vetch, William.	1693 (1693)	Wing V180; ESTC R230528	36,246	96

may get Justice Executed speedily and that without partiality 5ly You should also take special Care of Militarie or Armie Reformation that such Officers only get and keep their Commissions as are true to the Established Government You have had sufficient warnings of these things already to make you warry in time coming but I must freely tell you that friendship Interest and Covetousness doth often spoile these things Lastly You are called in your Stations to mind a National Reformation that the LORD may be worshipped according to the present Established Government which is most suitable to the Word of GOD and to which we stand greatly obliedged from the one End unto the other according to the Example of good Jehosophat 2 Chron 16 4 And Jehosophat dwelt at Jerusalem and be went out again through the people from Beersheba to Mount Ephraim and brought them back unto the LORD GOD of their Fathers Your Care and Zeal in this Matter would make you bear that excellent name in future Ages The repairers of the Breach of the Church of Seotland and the restorers of the Paths to dwell in Isa 58 12 This would be a mean to prevail with the LORD to come and dwell among us and fill his House with his Glory Magistrates should command it Ministers should preach it the People should pray for it and Souldiers oversee it where it is needful And if all persons concerned would act Cordially and unanimously with Resolution and Couradge in their several Stations as they are called and Employed I doubt not but our Land might yet be called JEHOVA Shamma the LORD is there But that I may shut up this Discourse I shall only add a few Motives and but name them to press you to this Duty The First Motive is this That if you whom GOD hath put in Publick Trust and Authority take care to build GODS House ye shall be no looser by it for this is the way to engage GOD to build and perpetuate your houses If ye will establish His Throne that he may reign in the Hearts of the Inhabitants of the Land in by his own Ordinances This will be a notable Mean for establishing the Kings Throne Proverbs 29 14 Psal 89 2 3 4 verses c. The Second Motive is this That the Generations to come will bless you who were Instrumental in your places to recover the Ruined Work of GOD in the Land and to get the pure Gospel Light set up every where To let the Wilderness-Travellers see the way to the Kingdom Will not the posterity that came After us get the good of this Reformation say blessed be such a Noble family and such a Gentlemans family and posterity who laid out themselves for the true worship of GOD who when it was ready to be swallowed up and extinguished who recovered it out of the hand of the Enemie and delivered it cleanly and safely down to us their posterity or else we had perished in superstition and darkness Thirdly This should press you to a through and universal Refotmation in the Land because it will be a notable Bulwark to defend us from the invasions of adversaries I lay it before you that are States men and are for State policie as one of Heavens politicks for the securing the Nation under the prospect of most imminent dangers you have a tryed instance of this 2 Chron 17.7 Also in the third year of Jehosophats Reign he sent to his Princes even to Banhael and to Obadiah and to Zechariab to Nathaneel and to Micajah to teach in the citys of Judah and with them he sent Levites verse 8 and 9. They taught in Judah and had the Book of the Law of the LORD with them and went throughout all the Cities of Judah and taught the people and the 10 verse tells us what a great security it brought along with it to the Land For the Fear of the LORD fell upon all the Kingdoms of the Lands that were round about Judah so that they made no war against Jehosophat this you see is the sweet advantage that arises from true through Reformation and should not this move you to make use of it and then you will have GOD's security and GOD's security is the best security Shew your selves therefore Men of Courage and Zeal for GOD and his cause and interests and ye need not question but he will be for you Lastly And I shall add no more your being active and faithful for GOD his work will upon a reflection even under troubles and tryals in this World be verie supporting and refreshing But O What a cordial will it be in a dying houre when all the Compositions of Apothecaties have lost their Relish when neither Riches nor Honours nor pleasures of this World will have any significancie with good Hezekiah Isaiah 38 2 3. verses Turn your faces to the wall pray Remember now O LORD I beseech Thee how I have walked before Thee in Truth and with a perfect Heart and have done that which is good in thy sight I say this will be the Great support and Consolations of your hearts who are persons of publick trust when ye come to the last step between time eternitie Let me therefore with all humility and earnestness Beseech you O Zerubabel his Majesties high Commissioner you who are the Officers of State and you the rest of the Members of this honourable Parliament in the words of my Text Yet Now O Zerubabel be strong saith the LORD and be strong O Joshua Son of Josedech the high Priest and be strong all ye people of the land saith the LORD and work for I am with you saith the LORD of Hosts Even so be it AMEN FINIS Col 4.17 And say to Archippus take heed to the Ministrie which thou hast received in the LORD that thou fulfill it THE Occasion of the Apostle Paul his writing this Epistle from Rome while he was Prisoner there unto this Church of Collosse seems to be from the Information he bad by Epaphras the Minister of the place holding furth the danger that that Church was into of being corrupted both in her principles and worship and that as well from Jews upon the one hand as Gentiles upon the other The Apostles scope in this Epistle is to confirm them in the Doctrine Preached by Epaphras their honest Minister and to press them to the further knowledge practice of Godliness and that both as to the General and special duties of Christianity in the conclusion of this Epistle which is from the 9 Verse to the End We have several salutations wherein some are saluted and Commended as Verses 10.11 Some saluted and exhorted that they may stand perfect and compleat in all the will of GOD as Verse 12 c. Some are saluted and directed as Verse 16 and some are saluted and admonished as in this Text And say to Archippus Take heed to the Ministrie which thou hast received in the

if we disobey and despise they will not a little contribute to aggravate our Condemnation The second Call To carrie on a begun work of Reformation is that of eminent and remarkable providences when there has been nothing for many years but a mixture of sad things to the Land and the work of GOD in it carried on by the black Horses and speckled Horses if I may say so strange and sad dispensations of Providence whereby Jacob was given to the spoil and Israel to the Robbers whereby we were brought unto the brink of the pit ready to perish all our expectations failing us upon the right and left hand giving all up for lost both our Civil and Sacred concerns that at such a nick of distress as this the LORD should by his wonderful providence raise up a Deliverer to his own Church another Cyrus Yea and greater then Cyrus to give us such Reviving from our bondage as we are Witnesses to this day this is a thing that Remarkably calls us to observe the doing of the LORD and he who sees it not to be the doing of JEHOVAH must be lamentably blind And does not our great and Gracious King be speak you the Honourable Members of Parliament in the words that David bespoke his Princes 1 Chron. 22.17 Verse To the end David also commanded all the Princes of Israel to help Solomon his Son saying is not the LORD your GOD with you and hath He not given you Rest on every side for he hath given the inhabitants of the Land unto mine hand and the Land is subdued before the LORD and before his people Verse 19 Now therefore set your heart and your Soul to seek the LORD your GOD Arise therefore and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD GOD to bring the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD and the holy Vessels of GOD into the house that is to be built to the Name of the LORD This is a thing that any thinking Person when they seriously consider Cannot but admire and say that this is a remarkable and Eminent call of the providence of GOD to carrie on a begun work of Reformation when such an undeserved and unexpected opportunity is put in our hands and I am sure nothing will make his Majestie more renowned in after Generations of the World than that he has keeped so just a proportion between his first declarations for the saftie and good of the Protestant Religion and his future actings and in this he Acts like the high and Noble Family of whom he is descended who have been the great Protectours and Propogators of the Protestant Religion and is not this a new call of his Providence that though we these years bygone have not so well manage opportunities pur in our hand for advancing the work of GOD he gives us this one opportunity more For if he had not shewed his more then ordinary care these years bygone to preserve the work that he had begun and to keep the Ark in its returning from being overturned by special casts of providence this begun deliverance had been utterly frustrated and spoiled by our ill management but O that we could admire the wisdom and goodness of GOD and I take it as a Token for good that he has preserved his begun work over the Bellie of the cunningest and strongest devices of adversaries and of the undexterous and careless management of friends The third Call To carrie on the work of Reformation is from our Mother the Church of Scotland and that natural dutie and becoming kindness that we owe to her as such who is not yet got out of her Ruines she calls to us who are her professed Children as the Jewish Church did of old to hers by the Prophet Isaiah Chap 51 18. verse Is there none to guide her among all the Sons whom She hath brought forth is there none that taketh her by the hand of all the Sons that She hath brought up They would be counted unnatural Children that would no help their natural Mother that gave them a natural life out of her afflictions and distresses how much more unnatural Children must they be that will not help that Mother out of her miseries and troubles Especially when an Eminent Opportunity is put in their hands from whom they pretend to derive a Spiritual and Eternal Life They that refuse to do this they evidence themselves to be bastards and not true sons of the Church These persons hearts are like to that Mother that said to King Solomon she would have him to divide the Child but the true Mother was of another Sentiment who said I would rather ye should be Mother false as you are than the Child should be divided And by this she discovered her naturall Affection I say then we Evidence our selves to be Bastards and not true Children of the Church that are nor for advancing the work of the House of GOD for setting up all the Pillars and Ordinances thereof The Doctrine Discipline Worship and Government of the House of the GOD of Heaven according to the Laws of the GOD of Heaven the work must not be divided and doing what in us lyes Nehemiah like for that end he was a man concerned in the City of his GOD and sepulchres of his Fathers that were lying wast he was a man that sought the well-fare of Israel And what did he I will tell you what he did he obtained Letters from the King to Reverse Letters and Orders that the Enemys of GOD had received for hindering of the building for you will see in the Book of Ezra Chap 4 from the 4 verse That the people of the Land who were Gerizzim party did exceedingly weaken the hands of the people of Judah and troubled them in the building And verse 5 They hired Counsellours against them to frustrate their purpose the S. verse gives an account who they were Rehum the Chancellour and Shimshai the scribe and the rest of their Companions mentioned verse 9. And when they obtained these Letters they soon put them in execution to marr the prosperity of the People and Work of GOD as you see in the 23 verse of that Chapter Now when the Copy of Artaxerxes Letter was read before Reburn and Shimshai the scribe and their Companions they went up in haste to Jerusalem and to the Jews and made them to cease by force and power c. But honest and good Nehemiah was much concerned for this and was at no quiet till he procured Letters from the King that his stop might be taken away that stood in the way of the Reformation he is made the Remarkable Instrument to discover this plot that was for overturning the new begun Work of GOD and removing the impediments and was never at rest till he got the Work set on foot again Now if the LORD in His Wonderful and gracious Providence raise up some such Courtier or Cup bearer in our day Nehemiah-like when the case of our