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A34954	Judah's purging in the melting pot a sermon preached in the cathedral at Sarum before the Reverend Sir Robert Foster, and Sir Thomas Tirrell, Knights, judges for the western circuit, at the Wiltshire Assizes, Sept. 6, 1660 / by W. Creede ...	Creed, William, 1614 or 15-1663.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6873; ESTC R37688	31,329	49

3. For he is like a Refiners fire and like Fullers sope and he shall sit as a Refiner and a Purifier of Silver And we know by experience that the Hammer of the Goldsmith and the flame and the Crucible is not to destroy the precious Metal but to cleanse and fashion it And what it looses of its dross and Tin it gains in lustre and brightness in purity and worth For that is the end of Gods Artifice and Pains that being purified he might put us into the mold and fashion us to be vessels unto honour sanctified and meet for the Masters use and prepared unto every good 2 Tim. 2. 21. Malachi 3. 3 4. work For it follows Malachi 3. v. 3 4. And he shall purifie the sons of Levi and purge them as Gold and Silver that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in Righteousness Then shall the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord as in the dayes of old and as in former times And that we may be sure that this is Gospel-m●thod and disciplines of Grace the Baptist will tell you Mat. 3. 27. that the great Mat. 3 27. Founder and restorer of his Church shall baptize with the holy Ghost and with fire that his Fan is in his hand and that he will throughly purge his Floore and gather his wheat into his Garner and burn up the Chaff with unquenchable fire This made the good Father S. Austin cry out hic ure hîc seca Domine ut in aeternum parcas Lord let me have my hell here upon earth that I may have my heaven and happiness hereafter I care not how sharp my A●flictions be since they are for my amendment if what I lose in my Estate and my Liberty and good Name I gain in Christian Purity and Meekness and Patience if I dye at the stake or on a Gibbet or a Scaffold if that death prove a Martyrdome and I be delivered unto Sathan for the destruction 1 Cor. 5. ● of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus Oh beloved me thinks there cannot be a greater comfort to believers nor a stronger support to them in the middest of their afflictions then to consider that when they are in the fining pot they are in the way to spirituall advancement that God delights not in the tormenting of their bodies but aims at the salvation of their souls Gods end in these sharp Methods shews his Love and respect towards them The care he takes in Melting and purely purging out our dross and taking away all our Tin manifests that he then most prizes us when to Carnall worldly men that triumph in our miseries we seem as lost and gone in the fire of Indignation And therefore the Apostle sensible of the love of God even in the middest of our tryals cryes out in behalf of believers 2 Cor. 4. 8 9 10. We are 2 Cor. 4. 8 9 10. 11. troubled on every side yet not distressed persecuted but not forsaken cast down but not destroyed alwayes bearing about in the body the marks of the Lord Jesus that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus sake that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh Let then the Atheist and the prosperous sinner boast of Providences and success whilst we when good men are oppressed and slain and the blood of Princes and of Nobles is poured out like water in the streets do glory in the cross of Christ that fits us for a Crown But then as the Consideration of the Cause Proegoumenal and Final Gods love to us in Christ that alone inwardly moves him and his great end and aim the purifying and saving of our souls by these sharp disciplines should serve to support us in the middest of our Calamities so it should serve to humble us under his hand when we consider the Procatartick and Meritorious Cause that from without stirs up God to cast us into the Melting Pot our dross and our Tin that have corrupted and embased our precious Metall And that is the next thing considerable And happy it is for Judah and Jerusalem that God promises to purge out their dross and Tin For no greater enemies to Gold and Silver then these They corrupt and embase the precious metall and make it cheap and contemptible Nothing so vile in Gods esteem as the Sinner This dross and Tin this pollution that is in him makes the great Artist not delight in the work of his own hands nor value that Purchase which he bought with his own blood It is true as the * Est Obriza examen seu probatio per ignem acerrimum qua omnis fere alienae materiae admixtio excernitur Vid. Budae l. 3. de Asse dixi ferè nam eousque excoqui aurum posse ut caractae unius quadrans tantum relinquatur materiae alienae c. Brerewood de Ponder Pret. cap. 22. Refiners have observed the finest Gold let it be purified seven times in the fire will still retain some mixture of Alloy Grace though it sanctifie nature never so much yet so long as we are in the flesh we shall have a touch of our fleshly corruptions As the best man that is ‖ Prov. 24. 16. falls seven times a day so is it true of Nations and Churches The * Mat. 13. 39 40. Corn and Tares and Chaff will be mixed in the threshing-flore till the winnowing day comes The * 47 48 49. net of the Gospel catches the Fish of all sorts the bad as well as good and no sorting them as yet till the Net comes to shore There will be sinners as well as Saints in the Pale of the visible Church till the day of Separation of the Sheep from the Goats The onely Church without Eph. 5. 27. Gal. 4. 26. spot or wrinckle is Jerusalem that is above And therefore when God promises he will purely purge away the dross Purgatio ad liquidum ut nulla scoria maneat non ita debet intelligi quasi Deus Ecclesiam suam in hoc mundo penitus unquam abstergat ab omni labe sed ut instar mundi argenti reluceat Vera pietas notatur cum ante Judaei sibi in faecibus suis nimium placuissent Calvin in loc and take away all the Tin it is not to be expected that any single Saint should arrive to an absolute sinless perfection in this life much less that a Nation should For then there would not be work for Mortification Repentance and godly sorrow for sin and the Magistrate would be useless and truly bear the sword in vain Our Purity consists in not suffering sin as the Apostle advises to reign in our Rom. 13. 4. Rom. 6. 11. mortall bodies that we should obey it in the lusts thereof that the dross and the Tin be so purged out