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A65420	The Churches paradox or the substance of a sermon preached at the place of Cumbusnethen in a barn, in the parish of Cumbusnethen in Clydsdale. By Mr. John Welsh.	Welch, John, ca. 1624-1681.	1710 (1710)	Wing W1310B; ESTC T166345	14,656	23

and comes to pass And nothing that the People of GOD takes in Hand as a Mean of Defence but there are some mislook or other comes upon it that is very Dark like that their Attempts and Endeavours Thrives not It is also very Dark like in the present Dispensation that there is so much Profanity and Atheism like to get footing among us and instead of Professing the Protestant Religion Folk is not only not Professing it but they are Denying it And Folk is not only Falling away from Godliness but Falling away from the Profession of it And many turning Popish in our Kirk This is very Dark and Night like And Lastly This is very Dark like in the present Dispensation that the more GOD strikes we are the more hardened ay the more we are smitten our Hearts is the more hard All these things looks very Dark and Night like upon the Church of Britain and Ireland These are very Black Tokens of a Sader and Darker Night But yet as I have said before there is also some Light like Tokens in these Dispensations of GOD towards His People and Church at this Time So that our Dispensations that we meet with at this Time are made up of Light and Darkness Something of Light and something of Darkness is in the present Dispensation that the Church in these Lands is trysted with For as we have many Black like Tokens in our Dispensations to make our Hearts sad so we have some Light like Tokens also that is as so many White Spots in the midest of our Cloud that gives us ground of Hope and I shall Name four or five of them And the First Thing that looks Clear like and is some Token for Good which is a White Spot in the midest of our Cloud The LORD is giving His People an Answer at this Time both of their own Prayers and of many others that has gone before them that hath died in the Faith I say He is now giving the People of GOD an Answer of all their Prayers and they never ken of it What was their Prayers say ye Wa was not this their Prayers that GOD would take some Effectual way of Purging of His House and of making His Inns Clean of making Himself a Clean House And now is He not giving an Excellent Answer to all these our Prayers though we little Observe it This was the Prayers of the People of GOD and they have now gotten an Answer For Presbyteries did but little in this There was ay some Unworthy Ministers keeped in and Elders that should not have been keeped in and because Formal and Legal Process could not be gotten against them they were ay keeped in and not casten out and they being keeped in were ay as Pricks and Thorns in the Flesh and Sides of the Honest Party and this put them ay to their Prayers again that GOD would take some Effectual Way to Purge His House And whether He be Answering these Prayers or no Judge ye and see O but He is like now to take some Effectual Way to Purge His House of many Naughty Ministers Elders that otherwise would not have been casten out in hast He is doing more for the Purging of His House in one Year now by this present Dispensation than could have been down in twenty Years by Presbytery This is also Light like that GOD is taking such an Effectual Method and thereby Answering the Prayers of the Saints for making to Himself a Tight Building again thats Light like Secondly There is another Thing that looks very Light like and Day like again in the present Dispensation and that is all those that GOD hath brought to the Stage at this time to bear Testimony for His Cause they have been helped of Him to carry so Honourably for his Cause that they have put Great Respect upon it by their Sufferings and has made it more Glorious than ever before So that He hath made the Cause more Glorious by the Suffering of these that hath suffered for it than ever they would have made it by their Actions and they had lived never so long So that there is more Honour put upon the Cause and Work of GOD by the Martyrdom of my Lord Argyle and precious Mr Guthrie and some others that they have Banished nor could have been put upon it by all their Actions and they had lived never so long This is some little White Spot in the midest of our Cloud that Dying and Living He makes ay His People put Respect upon His Honest Cause Thirdly There is something White like in the present Dispensation that the LORD is ay making that which Enemies are making and designing for the utter Ruine of the Work of GOD to put themselves the further behind and give themselves the more adoe and also by consequence of that to breed some more ground of hope to His People and so it contributes to the Advantage of the Low Work of GOD and has Advanced it a great stap There is some other Acts that they have put forth against His Cause and People hath Advanced the Low Work of GOD a great stap the cruelty of their Designs accomplished in their Wicked Acts has done meikle Good to this Work tho they intended it for Ill Some of their Acts that they have now put forth has put some Ministers to the Fields to preach that if they had not been so Cruel would have sitten still at home But now the Cruelty of their Acts hath put them to the Fields to preach and People to the Fields to hear them which otherways would have sitten still in their Nests if so be their Acts had not been so Cruel Their Acts that way hath done meikle Good to the Cause of GOD For it hath likewise bred in the Hearts of the very Profane a loathing of them and their Way and a love to the Truth more than before Their sending out to Quarter and Cess and Plunder hath been so far from Advancing of their own Cause though they designed it for that end that it hath brought many of their side oft it that was even almost Complyed and Banded with them and had a Respect to them before this their Cruelty I say it hath brought many to turn their back on them that was Adhering to them and beginning to Comply with them This is also White like in the present Dispensation and is some little White Spot in the midest of our Cloud and gives us ground of Hope that the LORD will arise yet with the Light Day of the Gospel to the poor Church of Britain and Ireland and that is that the LORD is beginning to plead the Cause of his People that when we are shut up and none left to plead our Cause He is saying that he will plead it Himself and in a manner indeed He hath said Put up your Sword and I will draw Mine He hath said to His People Put up your Sword and fylle not your Fingers on