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duty_n	holy_a	keep_v	sabbath_n	2,405	5	9.4746	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65752	The troubles of Jerusalems restauration, or, The churches reformation represented in a sermon preached before the Right Honorable House of Lords, in the Abby Church Westminster, Novemb. 26, 1645 / by John White ...	White, John, 1575-1648.	1646 (1646)	Wing W1784; ESTC R186492	39,612	69

sufficient ground to assure our selves of the fulfilling of those Promises to have our Enemies subdued and the hand of God turned against our adversaries Psal 81.13 14. If we Sanctifie the holy Sabbath and keepe it from Prophanation the Lord under one especiall duty of the Law includes all the rest we may warrant as assured by the word of God the fulfilling of all those gracious Promises recorded Jer. 17.24 25 26. For the things written afore-time were written for us that we through comfort of the Scriptures might have hope Not to hold you long look well upon your Covenant by which you have in as solemne a manner as may be obliged your selves by lifting up your hands to the most high God in the presence of men and Angels which if you break God will certainly recompence it on your heads as he threatens to doe in a like case Ezech. 17.19 consider it well and make good your solemne engagements both for Publique and private Reformation and you may boldly challenge God to make good unto you any Promise which he hath made vnto his Church in his Word in any age past Labour for Zerubbabels spirit in carrying on the Lords work and you may assure your selves of Zerubbabels successe and the great Mountaines that stand in your way shall become plaines before you Zech. 4.7 I adde further that if any thing may be concluded out of the course that God hath held with us hitherto he hath so strangely interposed himself and constantly stept in betweene us and our utter ruine at Keinton at Brainford at Newbery at York at Cheriton at Naseby when we may truly say with David 1 Sam. 20.3 There was but a step betweene us and death or utter destruction hath so compassionately looked upon us in our low estate as the Psalmist termes it Psal 136.23 and raised us up to a condition beyond our hopes and expectation that we have great reason to hope that he which hath begun will make an end as himself speakes in another case 1 Sam. 3.12 Indeed both Moses Exod. 32.12 and Ioshua cap. 7.7.9 presse God with respect to his owne honour which would have been much blemished if God who had so strangely brought his children out of Egypt and over Ierdan should have suffered them to perish either in the Wildernesse or in the Land of Canaan It is true I grant that when God hath called us to a work of thorough Reformation if we mixe our carnall policies with his Counsels and drive on our owne ends with more zeale then his As God may and will call them to accompt that doe his worke Negligently or unfaithfully so he justly may not onely deny them the honour of performing and accomplishing this service to him and to his Church but may put off the perfecting of this glorious work of thorough Reformation for the present and mix the accomplishing thereof and the restoring of our peace with more bitternesse then we have yet tasted And particularly I boldly affirm that every one whose Conscience witnesseth unto him that in singlenesse of heart he hath put to his hand for the furthering and carrying on this worke of Reformation out of true zeale to Gods honour and the good of his Church may assure himself that though Israel be not gathered yet he shall be glorious in the eyes of the Lord and his God shall be his strength as Christ speakes of himself Isa 49.5 As he dealt with David whom though the Lord thought not fit to employ in the building of his Temple yet his desire and purpose to have done it was abundantly rewarded 2 Sam. 7.11.12 Let us therefore up and be doing and set forward for the raysing on of this great work with resolution as being assured both of the successe and perfecting thereof at the last and of the acceptance of our labours therein and of our reward hereafter what troubles soever we meet with in the way of which I am to speak in the next place This great Worke which in the promise which we have before us God engageth himselfe to performe for his Church he casteth into the unfittest and in mans Iudgement the most unlikely of all Times into Times of trouble the reason whereof we shall consider by and by In the meane while we may take notice that it is usuall with God to intermixe some bitternesse with his sweetest mercies The Passeover it self must be eaten with bitter herbes Exod. 12.8 More particularly God usually mixeth troubles and afflictions with the Churches Reformation so that we may lay this before us as a general rule It is usuall with God to carry on the worke of raysing and restoring his Church in times of Trouble The building of the Temple was indeed put off from Davids troublesome Reigne to the dayes of Solomon a man of Peace as his name imports or of Rest as God termes him 1 Chron. 22.9 in whose time God promiseth to give his people Peace and Quietnesse But that is an unparalleled example as it may be easily made good by instances of all times ancient and modern The time of delivering Israel out of Egypt was not only a time of heavie bondage but as Moses hastened on that work that yoke was made heavier upon them in so much that for anguish of spirit and cruel bondage they had no mind to hearken to Gods message by Moses of their delivery Exod. 6.9 When God had by strong hand brought them out of the Land of Egypt besides their forty yeeres troublesome travaile in the Wildernesse what troublesome and dangerous warres they were encumbered withal in the Land of Canaan in their setting and planting there is at large recorded in the booke of Ioshua In the planting of the Church under the Gospel both the history of the Apostles Acts and the records of the state of the Church for the first three hundred yeeres after CHRIST testify to the World what bitter Persecutions it indured to the effusion of the blood of many hundreds of thousands of Men Women and Children in all places where the Gospel was planted Yea the master-builders themselves drunk as deep or deeper of that bitter cup of Afflictions as any of the rest as St. Paul testifies of himselfe at large 2 Cor. 11.23 24 25. and is as fully witnessed of the rest in Histories of undoubted verity To come neerer to the times of the Waldenses who neere 500 yeeres past held out the light of the Gospel in those dayes of palpable darkenesse which had overspread almost the face of the whole earth when they began once to encrease to a considerable number as indeed in the space of a few yeeres there were reckoned neere Eight hundred thousand that embraced their Doctrine the Records of those times howsoever much corrupted by the adversaries testify what bloody Wars were raised up against them by the Pope continuing neere one hundred yeeres and ending almost in the utter extirpation of that holy seed To speak nothing of those long