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A77999	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peeres, in the Abbey at Westminster, the 26. of Novemb. 1645. Being the day appointed for solemne and publique humiliation. / By Jer: Burroughes. Published by order of the said House.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1645 (1645)	Wing B6117; Thomason E310_2; ESTC R200440	36,639	57

love them in the Lord Si tantū habet pondus aliquod verum ut vires discentis excedat suspendendum est ut extendat crescentem non imponendum ut obterat parvulum August Quest in Mat. 11. and to be so vehement to promote that which very lately many if not most of them understood not of which they have given out no Modell to the Kingdome with proofes and reasons If I know mine own heart I can say Peace is dearer to me then my life I could joyfully lay down my life to procure peace between brethren but surely this is not the way It is a good rule of Augustine If any truth hath that weight that it exceeds the strength of the learner it is to be suspended that that which is little and tender may have liberty by degrees to put forth it selfe it must not be imposed left it bruise and oppresse it and so hinder the growth Whatsoever liberty shall be granted according to the Word I hope there is a generation that will not abuse it but will in the middest of their liberties be servants to Peace and Concord according to that I find in an Epistle of Master Calvins to Farell Nos liberi Servi sumus Pacis Concordiae And my Lords seeing there is such an out-cry against Toleration and Schisme I beseech your Honours that there may be a full debate how far Christ would have Brethren tolerate one another both in matters of judgement and practice and what that Schisme is which the Scripture condemnes as a thing not to be suffered and that the result of this debate may be published to the Kingdome for their satisfaction We know what abuse there hath been of words by them a spirit of opposition hath been stirred up in people against they know not what And I the rather humbly beseech this because many presume to interpret the Covenant against all kind of Toleration and whatsoever they are pleased to call Schisme and so they make the Covenant which we have made with the high God to become a snare to many thousand consciences of godly and peaceable men The Lord God guide your Honours and give unto every one of you the wisdome of an Angel of God in these miserable distracting times that you may doe worthily in your generation that in all your wayes Christ may owne you and all the godly of the Land may with one spirit joyne together and blesse you which is and shall be the prayer of him who is Your Honours In all humble service for Christ Jer Burroughes A SERMON PREACHED at a late FAST before the Right Honourable the House of PEERES PHILIP 4.12 I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound every where and in all things I am instructed BEsides the Apostolicall call Paul had to preach to all Nations he had a speciall extraordinary call to preach to these Philippians Act. 16.9 A man of Macedonia appeares in a vision and prayed him saying Come over into Macedonia and help us By which ver 10. he assuredly gathered that the Lord had called him to preach the Gospel there The first place in Macedonia where he preached was Philippi a chiefe City in that part of Macedonia ver 12. But was Pauls encouragement according to what might have been expected from his extraordinary call one would have thought the people should have come presently in to embrace the Gospel And when I consider of this place Westminster the extraordinary hand of God in bringing the Gospel to be preached to you here in power these thoughts presently arise there is hope that there are many soules here that belong to Gods election surely many will come in and embrace the Gospel here Who could have thought six yeeres since that instead of every mornings chanting this place should be the most eminent for having the Gospel preached in it I think I may say of any place in all the world How extraordinary hath the providence of God been towards you in working thus for you One would think now the hearts of people should be mightily stirred God forbid the successe here should be no better then Pauls preaching at Philippi was at the first For the first Sabbath he came thither he went to a Rivers side to preach and what did the Nobles the Magistrates the Gentry the chiefe Citizens come out to heare him No onely a few women came to him ver 13. We spake sayes he to the women which resorted thither Paul is a womans Preacher Well but did the Word work upon any of the women Yes There was a certaine woman named Lydia a trades-woman a seller of purple whose heart the Lord opened But though he had no better successe at the first yet after perhaps he might The next thing that you heare of him is that he together with Silas who went along with him is dragged before the Magistrates for factious troublers of the Citie the rude multitude are raised against them The Magistrates look upon them as men most vile and guilty of horrid things so as they are inraged against them they rend off their clothes and whip them they put them into prison they are thrust into the dungeon and put into the stocks and is this the fruit of that wonderfull call of God of that vision from heaven that did so encourage Paul a man of such a mighty Apostolicall spirit as he had to come to this place to preach Oh the sad discouragements that some meet with in works that God calls them unto Learn by this never to conclude that a work is not of God because you meet with discouragements at the first Bare your hearts upon Gods call there will come forth good at the last The spirits of Paul and Silas were not daunted by this hard successe for 1 Thes 2.2 he tells us that After they were shamefully intreated at Philippi they were bold in their God There was as famous a Church gathered in Philippi at the last as free from mixture as eminent in godlinesse as any That way men sleight contemne cast dirt upon stirre up Magistrates and people against may prevaile at last Phil. 1.3 4 5. Paul thanks God for them upon every remembrance of them alwaies in every prayer he makes his request for them with joy Oh that those Ministers whom God sends to you to preach every morning might from that they see in you say thus Every time we think of Westminster we give God thanks we cannot but remember that place with joy in regard of the happy successe of our Ministery there But though these Philippians were stirred at first did those workings of the Gospel upon them hold Many have hopefull workings upon them when the Gospel comes first among them but after a while all vanishes and comes to nothing but it was not so here for ver 5. he sayes Their fellowship in the Gospell had continued from the first day untill now which was about ten yeares For Pauls