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A77847	The reformation of the church to be endeavoured more then that of the common-vvealth, declared, in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords at the publike fast, August 27. 1645. / By Anthony Burges, pastour of Sutton Coldfield, and now preacher at Laurence-Jury, London.	Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1645 (1645)	Wing B5654; Thomason E298_13; ESTC R200236	17,974	31

THE REFORMATION OF THE CHURCH To be endeavoured more then that of the COMMON-VVEALTH Declared In a Sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of LORDS at the publike Fast August 27. 1645. By ANTHONY BURGES Pastour of Sutton Coldfield and now Preacher at Laurence-Jury London LONDON Printed by G.M. for T. Vnderhill at the Bible in Woodstreet 1645. Die Iovis 28. August 1645. IT is this day ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled That M. Anthony Burgesse who preached yesterday before their Lordships in the Abbey Church Westminster it being the day of the publike Fast is hereby thanked for his great pains he took in his said Sermon and desired to print and publish the same which is only to be done by authority under his hand Iohn Brown Cleric Parliamentorum I Appoint Thomas Vnderhill to print this Sermon Anthony Burgess TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE House of PEERS Assembled in PARLIAMENT RIGHT HONOURABLE THe Scripture taketh notice of those Act. 17.11 as more noble then others that enquire and search diligently into the Scripture concerning the truth of things tendered to be believed And well doth it honour such because men are apt in matters of Religion as Seneca speaketh about the opinions of an happy life Credere magis quàm judicare believe implicitely rather then judge exactly whereby they walk Non quâ eundum est sed quâ itur not whither we should goe but whither the tract of the path leadeth us It was my endeavour in this Sermon to excite your Lordships to a speedy and exact Reformation of the Church from all the corruptions that have defiled her and herein to attend unto Gods Word as the only starre that will conduct unto Christ None are too great to undertake so good a work Gregory said of David dancing before the Ark Magis miror Davidem saltantem quàm pugnantem David is more to be admired in his religious worship of God then in his couragious conquests and slaughters of the Philistims or other enemies Hence Jer. 9.23 24. where glory in wisdome riches and might is forbidden there is a kinde of an holy pride allowed in the knowledge of the Lord. Let Heathens glory that they are saluted by the Common-wealth patres patriae but let those Christians whom God honoureth with dignity and place delight to be nursing Fathers unto the Church by speaking comfortably unto those who teach the good knowledge of God and by commanding the Levites to carry all the filthinesse out of the Temple Which that your Lordships may faithfully and zealously doe is the prayer of Your Lordships humble Servant Anthony Burgesse Errata PAge 4. line 21. for counselled read compelled against l. 29. adde Calv. in Amos ch 7 v. 13. p. 15. l 9. for subtitis r. subditis p. 26. l. 8. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. ult l. 28. reade but left the saithfull Ministers and godly people of the land under as many groanes and troubles as before A SERMON Preached before the Right Honourable the House of LORDS August 28 1645. JUDG 6.27 28 29. Then Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the Lord had said unto him And so it was because he feared his fathers houshold and the men of the City that he would not do it by day that he did it by night And wen the men of the City rose early in the morning behold the altar of Baal was cast down and the grove was cut down that was by it and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built And they said one to another Who hath done this thing And when they enquired and asked they said Gideon the sonne of Joash hath done this thing c. THis book containeth a wonderfull alternation and vicissitude of the Israelites troubles and their deliverances as also of their sinnes and prayers unto God which old inconstancie of theirs made Gregory compare them to the grashoppers that do on a sodaine leape high and then fall down again to the ground Thus did the Israelites and this Chapter containeth the fourth change wherein we have first described their sinne and then their punishment Their sinne ver 1. The children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord This evil was especially Idolatry hence that is called in Scripture 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the abominable thing and this Idolatry is either when the true God is not worshipped or when he is not worshipped in a true manner It is not long since in England were found such abominable things which made the faithfull Ministers of God so zealous for a Reformation Omnis sermo adaptandus est contra Idolatriam In the next place you have their punishment they were oppressed by the Midianites and this was so great that the Israelites who had been beasts in their sinnes were now made like them in their punishments for they were forced to hide themselves in dens and caves and this was not all they were in danger of scarcity and famine for they found it very difficult to get corne now the words that do expresse the misery of warre as clades strages and calamitas are such as are taken from the hurt done to the husbandman in his corne and grasse as if that were the great evil of warre In the next place we have Israels prayer unto God ver 6. They cried unto the Lord. At ver 7. God sendeth a Prophet to them to informe them of their sinne that the weight thereof might lye heavier upon them then all outward misery which also is aggravated by the manifold favours God hath bestowed on them now it is indged by some that here is an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the history and that this expostulation which the Prophet made with them did precede and cause the prayers and supplications of the Israelites What the Prophet was and whether it was the same with the Angel mentioned ver 12. I will not discusse Upon the Israelites humiliation God sends them a deliverer who is described by his name family and his present action he was threshing wheat A fit representation of him who was afterwards in the worship of God to separate the wheat and the chaffe In the Chapter we have 1. His call and commission 2. His humble and modest excuse 3. His obedience notwithstanding Now his commission was in two things principally First The destruction of all false worship with erecting and establishing of the pure And secondly The vindicating and asserting of the Common wealth from its oppressors And my text containeth Gideons faithfull discharge of the former part of his commission though he met with much opposition Now in this whole fact of Gideons some things are extraordinary and do not belong as examples to us but other things are ordinary and from those I shall gather my present observations As first whereas Gideon doth not only free the Common wealth from outward violence and oppression but the Church also