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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

am confident if the calculation be true which hath been given of the time in the verse next following my text it s not twice so long as you have sitten already in Parliament ere Rome be destroyed and therefore could I be heard over all our Militia I should wish them not feare employment if these wars be ended which many are too loath to finish soone enough least as Demetrius said in another case their craft should faile For this ended a more noble warre and more unanimous would be occasioned to helpe the Lord against the mighty in other Countries God seemes to have confirm'd this Parliament for some such purpose as if he would have you immortall till the worke be done Lastly and so I conclude if any of you die before you see this great salvation of the Lord your posterity shall inherit the blessing and for you it is Honour enough that you expire in so great a cause Heathens thought no greater Honour than to die for their Countrey for you to lay downe your lives in being the Angels of God as blessed Luther famous Queene Elizabeth renowned King of Sweden was in powring out the vials of Gods wrath on the throne and seate of the beast you have Honour enough they shall not need to come to Westminster to reade your Epitaphs all the Churches of the world shall reade at distance the Epitaphs so truly and worthily preached to you by a renowned watchman whose praise is in the Gospell These are Scotlands umpire Irelands guard and revenge Englands preservation the Churches safety and Religions glory FINIS An Appendix Giving light from History sacred and Ecclesiasticall to some passages of the Sermon humbly presented to his much honoured Patron Sir ROBERT HARLEY Knight of the Noble order of the Bath and one of the Members of the Honourable House of COMMONS SIR AS the Honourable House of Commons by your mouth commanded me both to preach and print this Sermon so I trust you will patronize this short Appendix which I am encouraged by good friends to affix hereto The foure great Monarchies are now almost come to an end out of the third comes up a little Horne conceived to be Antiochus Dan 8. 9. Hugh Broughton Epiphanes as the circumstances of the eight Chapt. show for it is of the Goat which is call'd a Leopard Chap. 7. 6. out of the fourth comes up another little Horne conceived to be the Turke as the circumstances of the seventh Chapt. Dan. 7. 8. show for he riseth among the ten hornes of the fourth beast which is the Romane Otthoman first assumed the title of Hen. Isaackson pag. 343. Sultan and about the yeare 1300. laid the foundation of the Turkish Kingdome from thence reckon a time times and an halfe prophetically dayes for yeares The time 100. times M. Brightman in Dan. 1● 7. 200. halfe time 50. in all 350. yeares which added to 1300. expires Anno 1650. Then shall the King of the North the Dan. 11 40 44 M. Mede Apost. latter times pag. 111. Turke come against the King of the South the Saracen like a whirle-wind Then tydings out of the East shall trouble him and then from the taking away of the daily sacrifice by Titus Vespasian who burnt both City and Temple and the setting up of the abomination of desolation by Julian shall be 1290. dayes which added to 360. the time of Julians Onuphr. 360 Isaa●son 367. reign makes also 1650. though 3. or 4. yeares difference there is amongst Chronologers For confirmation whereof consider two things 1. Christs Prophecie 2. It s accomplishment Our Saviour Christ a little before his death prophesied 1. There shall not be left here stone upon stone which shall not Matth. 24. 2. be thrown downe His Disciples aske him when this shall be He bids them that reade consider when they shall see the abomination ver. 15. of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet stand in the Holy place Here is the Prophecie and the time when it shall be fulfilled To find the accomplishment now Ecclesiasticall story must 2. speake There I find Titus Vespasian as before burning Ioseph Antiq. both City and Temple where alone it was lawfull to sacrifice but yet for all that there were stones upon stones left I find also Julian the Apostate endeavouring to restore Jud●is●e Tripart Hist. by authorizing encouraging and assisting the Jewes to reedifie their Temple and they taking up every stone of the old foundation over night and intending to lay a new foundation the next day but when they had fulfilled the Prophecie of Christ they were dispersed that very night and never able to lay a new stone there as they had intended I le give you out of Greeke and Latine the testimony of foure very famous Historians viz Ruffinus Socrates Theodoret and Sozomen the two former mention the Prophecie of Christ and Cyril of Jerusalem his observation upon it the two latter imply the Prophecie but say nothing of Cyril all of them though severall writers in severall places and times agree in testimony First Ruffinus tels that Julian conveened the Jewes and Ruffin Hist. Eccles●● c 37 ●8 39. asked them why they doe not sacrifice they tell him they may not except it be in Hierusalem as their law commands them He askes why then they doe not build their Temple They tell him they are not able He gives them authority encouragement and assistance They thereupon fall about it as if some Prophet had spoken to them They prepare lime and sand and all things else and then they take up the old foundation which done the next day nothing was wanting why they might not lay a new one the old being removed But when Cyril the Bishop of Hierusalem had dilige●ly considered what they had done and what they were about to doe he was confident either out of those things which he had read concerning the times in the Prophecie of Daniel or which our Lord had foretold in the Gospels that by no meanes it could be that the Jewes should there lay a stone upon a stone but that the saying of our Saviour should now be fulfilled Neither was his prediction vaine For behold in that night which only staid them from beginning their new worke an earthquake turn'd all down to the ground and confirm'd the very truth of our Saviours words and so being frighted both Jews and Gentiles went away and gave over their foolish beginnings Then Socrates to the same purpose Julian calls for the Socrat. Hist. Eccles. l. 3. c 17. Secund Graec. c. 20. Jews and demandeth of them the cause why they did not sacrifice After they had answered it was not lawfull for them so to doe but in Ierusalem he commanded that in all hast their Temple should be built accordingly all necessaries were provided as timber stone brick clay lime with other things requisite in building At that time Cyril Bishop

as they should be I will therefore abruptly breake off here the use of Instruction and fall into the second use of Exhortation This serves in the second place therefore for Exhortation that you would be purified made white tried let not our deliverance and the deliverance of Gods Church stay and be deferred for want of this And here Right Honourable suffer the words of exhortation patiently I shall borrow the benefit of the * mornings preface to speake unto you plainely We rejoyce in the authority we have from you besides the encouragement to seeke the Lord by fasting and prayer but you had need call the land to one fast more to Ezras to seeke of God a right way to know why we are not delivered God we are sure is a God that heares prayer especially extraordinary prayer but are we purified made white tryed Ioshuah fasted but the Lord told him that was not the thing Israel had sinned that must be done away ere God would helpe them It is not for me to charge any fault upon you the great assembly of the Gods but give me leave to set the great God before you as your patterne and thereby charge your selves in his Name only let me exhort you to these three things First Be purified Me thinks the Lord calls upon you that are the repairers of our breaches and restorers of pathes to dwell in as sometimes to Ierusalem Will you not be made cleane when shall it once be I am not able to charge impurity upon you but God can and your own consciences may helpe you to find it out This only let me say unto you that an ordinary purity will not serve your turnes though it is wont to be said a little holinesse goes for a great deale amongst our Nobles and Gentry You are great men and wise the Worthies of the Land think I pray you what a disgrace a But puts upon you such a But I meane as was on Naaman Now Naaman Captaine of the hoste of the King of Syria was a great man with his master and honourable because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria He was also a mighty man in valour but he was a leper As you stand for your selves and for us so give us leave to beseech you to a double purity one for your own sakes another for ours and because in this second consideration you move in a high spheare I beseech you patterne your purity by his whom you represent no lesse holinesse must you aime at than to be holy as he is holy me thinks if every second cause works so much more strongly as it is united to its first cause then you that represent one Kingdome at the least and are as I said the great assembly of Gods should be so much more pure and holy as you are neerer to God than others both in name and office You are engaged in an Honourable cause and you have as Honourable a call thereunto now as in both you would prosper purifie your hearts your hands your houses remember the Lord will be sanctified in all those that draw neare him Secondly Be made white as well as pure I cannot againe but the world doth bespo● your innocency now doe you as the Lord he cleares his righteous dealing before the Sun doe not you let any spot lie upon your proceedings I will instance only in three of your graces Be made white in your Truth by executing your ordinances that you may not only say but doe Be made white againe in your Iustice upon delinquents that what you seeke when it is put into your hands we may see you execute The very Heathens call'd Iustice the daughter of Iupiter married to him and sitting close by his side c. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and the Lord sayes what a doe is here with fasting execute true judgement c. else you fast not to him looke into the prisons if this fasting day be not a feasting day and if they mock not God with something else than religious fasting on their Friday Be made white once more in your Zeale and sincerity to reforme the house of God by denying your selves and giving up thereto that which may make it glorious It was a good observation of an Honourable Member of your society upon the Teares of Germany that their deliverance was not like to be yet because in the catalogue of all their sinnes then made in a Sermon the chiefe sinne was not named Sabbath-breaking whereof that Country was notorlously guilty Truly I am sorry that in so excellent an Ordin 〈…〉 for Repentance Sacriledge is not mentioned whereof this Land hath been too much guilty unlesse by you it be purged from it which we all expect You well heard in the morning there is great necessity of speeding the businesse of Ordination now before you but let me adde thereto that the ministery you shall ordaine will be rendered very contemptible and vile before all the people unlesse you take care they be not disabled for want of Maintenance nor discouraged for want of Authority the former they are in danger to be by Impropriations the latter by Patrons I plead not for authority civill but sacred not Prelaticall but pious and Ministeriall that they may not be afraid to tell the people their transgressions and the house of Iacob their sins Lastly Be tryed and be faithfull when you are tried some you have had more you may have shrinke not stand to it and you shall have the Crowne of life The time prevents me therefore I will conclude with a word of the thirduse which is of Consolation Be you thus faithfull and three things may sustaine your spirits against all discouragements First You shall be sure to prevaile for looke upon ver. 1. It is not a Timpany but a Delivery these times fore-tell and what an Honour will it be to you to be midwives to the birth of such a child of reformation as Heaven and earth shall cry grace grace unto it sore troubles you have had and may have but a woman in travell hath sorrow because her houre is come but as soone as she is delivered of the child shee remembreth no more the anguish for joy that a man is borne into the world To encourage you hereto consider the wickednesse of the enemy if you be purified doth assure you they shall not prevaile they make lies their refuge and under falshood hide themselves you know what God saith he will doe with such a people They blaspheme God which hath power over the plagues and repent not to give him glory therefore they lie under the vials of his wrath you may write upon it they shall never prosper Secondly You may live to see this delivery as he saith who shall live when God doth this that shall you I