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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

them but I will let you see that I will lay them Heaps upon Heaps I will let you see what I will do with the Great Noblemen and Ladies that break my Covenant at London that would set their feet down upon the LORDs Ground they could not set their Noble Feet upon the LORDs Earth when they went down to the Breach of GODs Covenant but I shall gar them says the LORD be harled to Holes and Dyke-sides where their Carcases shall be stinking upon the Ground when the Populus City London where all this Mischief was first contrived against the Work of GOD and the Covenant first burnt I say all these Mischiefs contrived and acted GOD hath dung His Sword against them viz. by the Visitation or Plague and laid them Heaps upon Heaps GOD hath given His People a Seing Mends of them so that they are forst to pity their Enemies and say alas alas for them and Father alas for that that is come upon them this is White like and is as a White Spot in our Cloud and says that GOD will yet Avenge the Quarrel of a broken Covenant for He is beginning to do so already Lastly We have this to look too which is Clear like in the present Dispensation and is a White Spot in the midest of our Cloud and that is The heinous Perfidelity of the Prelatical Party that says that GOD will be about to be Avenged on them We have this to be a Ground of Hope that we had even all those Men once in our Day that is now crying down this Work and spitting upon it as it were and labouring to get it at under These Men once in a day cryed it up as fast as we do now They cryed up the Covenant and cryed up the Cause and put it up upon others to do so and Suffer for as well as the Suffering Servants of GOD that are now Suffering for its Doing I know there is some of you in this Parish kens something of it and has been Witness to it that once he that is turned Prelat among you swore the Covenant before you and was very forward in it and in a word spoke als much for it as any other about him and swore you to your Covenant at your Sacrament viz. Mr. James Hamilton Bishop of Galloway and then shoke his lap and said So let GOD shake every Man out of his Inheritance that bides not by this Covenant We have this Advantage of all these Enemies that they cryed once and that not long ago up the Work that we this Day own as fast as they are now crying it down and cryed down Prelacy as fast as ever we cryed it down and does cry it down this Day But if they hold it as a Principle to be the Right Government of the Church of CHRIST it had been some Manliness in them to have cryed it up But in this they are Beasted that they hold ay be that Side that there is most outward Advantage in their Persidy says that GOD will be avenged on them and gives His People ground of Hope For the last Years they cryed down Prelacy and up the Work and Cause of GOD as fast as any Body and then it was but even Saul among the Prophets with them This may be a ground of Hope to us and a White Spot in our Cloud Now so much for the Doctrine The Second Thing we would speak a Word to from the Text is this But it shall be one Day that shall be known to the LORD The Dictrine is that Though sometimes the LORD may lengthen out the Trouble of His Kirk for a long time yet there is other times in which it will not be long but a short time for one day and that is First When Enemies Cruelty is so great and they are very Violent then it shall be but for one day Now it is not long that they will Reign when they are very Cruel and Violent in their Course Haman he had one day a little while and O but he was Cruel and the Acts that he made was to the utter overthrow of the Kirk of GOD and he will have it done all in one day he will have all done in a little time no peace and peace but he will have all done in one day well Therefore the Kirk hath but one day of Trouble He will not let her ly under this Tyrany when Enemies is very Cruel but presently gives her an outgate And so at the beginning of the New Testament Church there rose then a great heat of Persecution the honest man Stephen was stoned and a great Persecution was raised but presently the LORD gave rest throughout all the Churches but giff it was Cruel the LORD suffered it not to be long That we may apply this to our present Case and Dispensation this day then it sayes our Darkness will not be long First This even says it The great Violence of this Party that is now up and upon foot the Violence now used by this Prelatical party against us that hardly would the like have been used by Turks let be by Men of the same Profession yet their Acts hath been and is full of Violence against us What Violence was in that Act in the midest of Winter to put so many Families to seek their Lodging and Winter-quarters and in the midle of Winter to make Desolate the whole Land from Preaching that they shall not have a Word spoken to them that now stands in need of a Word of Direction and Comfort in the present Case Secondly There was great Violence that was used by them in their taking of the Lives of the Martyrs what Violence did they use against them they were not only content to take their Lives but they would have the most honourable part of their Body to wit their Head denyed the honor of a Burial the like of which was never done to Protestant Ministers by Protestant Ministers before Thirdly Those that was banished it would not satisfie their Humour to give them a months time to provide for Banishment or so long time as was necessar for expeding of their Affairs but presently commands them to sail with Violence Tuke of Drum so that they might neither see Wife nor Children if they came not to them And then what Cruelty was used by them sinsyne in this Land by Scourging some and burning them upon the Cheeks and then Banishment and I doubt who could express their Fault before six Judicious Auditors And then what Cruelty was used against that Faithfull Minister to wit Mr. Smith in putting him in the Thieves Hole with Irons upon him among Mad-men and giff ye would know all his Fault it was even because he would not call the Bishop my Lord and then because his Friends had access to him there where they communicated something to him for the Supply of his Necessity they deny him the Priviledge and put him in another Hole where no access is to be