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A33295	A sermon preached at a general meeting in the Gray-Friar-Church of Edinburgh, upon the 13 day of June, 1638 by that eminent, faithful, and zealous servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Andrew Cant ...	Cant, Andrew, 1590?-1663.	1699 (1699)	Wing C450; ESTC R34783	15,112	25

Work Even the Mightiest Enemies that oppose themselves to the work of God ye may observe a four fold Power of God against these Mountains First A determining Power whereby he sets such bounds to the greatest Mountains that ye see they fall not upon the Valley's albeit they overtop them the Lord hath set bounds to the great Kings in the World which they could not pass when they have set themselves against the Lord's People we may see an Example of this in Sennacherib 2 Kings 19. 32. Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the King of Assyria he shall not come up to this City nor shoot an Arrow against it nor come before it with Shield nor cast a Bank against it Ye are afraid of the King that he come against you fear not the Lord by his restraining Power is able to keep him back that he shall not shoot so much as a Bullet against this City Secondly God removes Impediments by his assisting Power as he promised to do before Cyrus Isa. 45. 2 I will go before thee and make the crooked places straight I will break in pieces the Gates of Brass and cut in sunder the iron Barrs albeit for any thing we see there be Brazen Gates and Iron Barrs closing out a Reformation yet let not this discourage you God is with you by his assisting Power to go before you to make all crooked places straight and to break the Brazen Gates and to out in sunder the Iron Barrs Thirdly God hath a changing Power whereby he makes Mountains plain how easie is it with God to make the highest Mountain that Impedes his Work a Plain Prov. 21. vers 1 The Kings Heart is in the hand of the Lord as the Rivers of Waters to turn it whither soever he will Lord make our Mountain thus plain The fourth way how GOD removes Mountains is by an overthrowing power if there be no change yet GOD will bring it down Isa. 2. 12. Every one that is lifted up shall be brought low The like ye have in the 17. v. By this which hath been said ye may understand how a Mountain may be made a Plain GOD makes Mountains Plains either in Mercy or in Wrath. 1. In Mercy when he takes a Grip of the Heart of a proud haughty Heart makes it toward and plain we have seen such a Change by Experience This Work had many Enemies at the Beginning that impeded it whom GOD hath taken by the Heart and made plain yea hath made them Furtherers of the Work 2. There is another way of making Mountains plain to wit making plain in Wrath when GOD overthrows the Mountains that stand up impeding his Work assure your selves if GOD bring not down this Mountain we have to do with in Mercy he shall overthrow it in Wrath and make it waste That I may make this Mountain more plain ye shall consider how it shall become a Plain and how easily it may be made a Plain 1. I see you looking up to the Height of it and ye are saying within your selves how shall it come down ye must not think that it will come down of its own accord GOD useth Instruments to pull down I find that GOD hath made his own People Instruments to pull down such Mountains Isai. 41. v. 14 15 16. Fear not Worm Jacob and ye Men of Israel I will help thee saith the Holy One and thy Redeemer behold I will make thee a new Threshing Instrument having Teeth thou shalt thresh the Mountains and beat them small and shalt make the hills as chaff thou shalt fann them and the wind shall carry them away and the whirl wind shall scatter them Mark these Words although Iacob be a Worm despised by the great ones of the World yet GOD will make him a Threshing Instrument to beat these Mountains in pieces The Professors of this Land are despised by the Mountains yet fear not for the sharp Threshing Instrument is made I hope it shall beat the Mountains in pieces we think them very high but if we had faith that word would be verified Mat. 16. 20. Ye shall say to the mountain remove to yonder place and it shall be removed and nothing shall be impossible unto you But one is saying I have not faith that all that are joyned this day against the Mountain shall continue I hope they shall continue I hope they shall but if they do not we trust not in men that they shall bring down this Mountain but in God who hath said in Ier. 51. ver 25. Behold I am against thee O destroying mountain I will stretch out my hand upon thee I will roll thee down from the rocks and make thee a burnt mountain they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner nor a foundation thou shalt be desolat for ever This Mountain ye see so exalted although men would hold it up yet GOD will bring it down and make it a burnt Mountain even so O LORD do 2. In the second place consider how this Mountain may be made a Plain I told you it was but an Artificial Mountain a Stooted Mountain standing upon weak Pillars if ye would take a look of the whole Frame of the Mountain it stands upon two main Pillars and upon the Top of this Mountain stands the House of Dagon an House of False Worship and take me the Pillars from Episcopacy and it shall fall take Episcopacy away and the House of Dagon shall fall the two main Pillars that Prelacy stands on are a Civil and Secular Arm and an Ecclesiastical Tongue so to speak 1. First The Secular Arm is the Authority of Princes which hath ever upholden that Mountain ye know Secular Princes uphold Antichrist and Prelacy in this Land is upholden by the Secular Power Secondly The second Pillar I call Ecclesiastical that is Prelacy in this Land hath been upholden by the Tongues of Kirkmen Preaching up this Mountain or by their Pens Writing upon this Mountain and these are the two Pillars whereupon our Mountain of Prelacy is Stooted the Secular Power and the Tongues of Kirkmen let the King withdraw his Power and Authority from the Prelats and they shall fall suddenly in Dross let Kirkmen and Ministers withdraw their Tongues and Pens from them and our Mountain ere ye look about you shall become a Plain As these two Stoots up this Mountain so upon this Mountain all False Worship in the Kirk is built even Dagon's House lead me says Samson to the Pillars that Dagon's House stands on that I may be avenged for my two Eyes the Philistines were never more cruel to Samson in pulling out his Eyes than our Prelats would have been to us they pressed to put out our Eyes and ere ever we were aware they thought to lead us to Dagon's House even to the Tents of Popery and Idolatry let us come to this main Pillar of Dagon's House and apply all our strength to pull it down that we may not only be

avenged for our Eyes which they have thought to pull out but also that the House of False Worship which is erected upon this Mountain may fall to the ground I hear some saying Minister for all your saying the Mountain will not come down at this time ye think nothing but it will down I assure you I would have it down but ye must not think us that silly as to think that it will come down because we have many for us we trust not in Men but in GOD and if this be the time that GOD will have it down although ye should lay all your hands about their head they shall come down it appears they will come down if there were no more but their Pride Avarice Cruelty and loose Living to pull them down especially when all these are come to height as they are come to in them and so much for the Mountain ye see we have reproved it GOD remove it I come now to the three in the Work the Mountain being removed 1. It is a Work growing and going up He shall bring forth 2. It is a Work finished He shall bring forth the head stone thereof 3. It is a Work praised He shall bring forth the head stone thereof with Shouting Crying Grace Grace be unto it We shall speak of all these three shortly First It is a Work going up it was impeded but now it 's going up There is something here very considerable the Work goes not up until the Mountain be made a Plain The Mountain must not be paired or topped but it must altogether become plain otherways the Work cannot go up The Mountain of Prelacy must not be paired nor topped something taken away but it must be brought down wholly otherways the Work of Reformation cannot go on neither Christ's House go up It will be said what ailes you you shall have your desires but the Estate of Bishops must stand It is impossible to bring it down altogether the King may not want an Estate truly a good one both to Kirk and Common Wealth ye shall have them brought within the old Bounds and Caveats set down to them they shall not hurt the Kirk any more the LORD knows how loath I was to speak from this place but seing GOD hath thrust me out I must speak the truth I say to you these Quarters are not to be taken because the Mountainis not of God's making but of Man's and therefore make it what way ye will God will be displeased with it yea it s impossible to set caveats to keep them in I appeal to all your Consciences is it possible to set Caveats to their Pride and Avarice their Pride and Avarice will break through Ten Thousand Caveats I will clear this impossibility by similitudes Tell me if a Fountain in the Town of Edinburgh were poisoned whether were it more safe to stop up the Fountain than to set a Guard to keep it that none draw out of it for there is hope the Poison would do no harm There is no Man of a sound Judgment but he will think it more safe to stop up the Fountain than to guard it this Prelacie is the Poisoned Fountain wherefrom the Kirk of Christ hath been Poisoned with the Poison of Error and Superstition Now the Question is whether it be safer to stop it up than to guard it Surely it is safer to stop it up for all the Caveats in the world will not keep the Kirk unpoisoned so long as it remains I will give you another similitude If the Town of Edinburgh were as many Towns have been and are taken and Possest by cruel and obstinat Enemies who would take all your liberties from you would not suffer your Magistrates to judge and would spoil you of your Goods and use all the cruelty that could be devised against the Inhabitants if God gave you occasion to be free of such a cruel and obstinat Enemie what would you do if this were proponed to you why may not you suffer the Enemie to abide within the Town We shall take all their Weapons from them they shall never hurt you any more Would ye not think it far better to put them out of the Town altogether both because the Inhabitants would be in fear so long as they were in the Town and because the Town would never be sure For there might be Traitors among your selves who would Steal in Weapons in their Hands and so they would bring you under the former Tyrannie yea under a greater Even so it is in this Case The Cruelest and greatest Enemies that ever the Kirk of Scotland saw are those Prelats they have spoiled us of all our Liberties and exercised intollerable Tyranny over us Now the Lord is shewing a way how to be quite of them consider the Condition offered what all 's you May ye not let them abide within the Kirk we shall take all their Weapons from them as admission of Ministers Excommunication and that terrible High-Commission they shall never hurt you again this is but the Counsel of Man the Counsel of GOD is to put them out of the Kirk altogether otherways the Kirk can never be secure yea I assure you there are as many Traitors among our selves as would steal in the Weapons again in their Hands then shall our latter Estate be worse than our first if our Yoke be heavy under them now it shall be heavier then if they chastise us now with Whips they shall chastife us then with Scorpions I think I hear Men speak like that Word Danieâ— 4. 14. Hew down the tree cut down his branches shake off his leaves scatter his fruits nevertheless leave the stum of his roots with a band of iron and brass the Interpretation of that part of the Vision is set down in the 26 verse Thy Kingdom shall be sure unto thee after that thou hast known that the Heavens bear rule I hear Men say hew down the Tree cut off his Branches shake off his Leaves scatter his Fruits ye shall be quite of all that but thâ— Stump must be left banded with Iron If it were till they knew GOD it were something but there is no appearance of that Consider O Man who saith that no Man but the Watcher and the Holy One even he that made Nebuchadnezzars Kingdom sure to him If GOD had made this Estate sure to them iâ— would and should stand and if GOD would binâ— down the Stump of it with Iron Bands we would never fear the growth of it nor the Fruit of it but seing they are only Bands to be laid on by Men Albeit the Tree were hewed down it would grow again in all the Branches of it with all the Leaves of it's Dignity and we should taste of the bitter Fruit of it Yet that are Covenanters be not deceived if ye leave so much as a Hillock of this Mountain in despight of your hearts It shall grow to a high Mountain which shall fill both Kirk

and Common Wealth If the Kirk would be quite of the Troubles of it and if ye would have this Work of Reformation going up this Mountain must be made a Plain altogether otherways the Spirit of GOD saith ye shall never prosper The second thing in this Work is a Work finished He shall bring forth the head stone thereof When a head stone is put on a House the House is finished ye who are Reverend Fathers in the Kirk who have seen the Work of our first Reformation ye saw it going up and brought to such a Perfection that the Cope-stone was put on Purity of Doctrine and Administration of Sacraments and Sweetness of Government whereby the Kirk was ruled but woe's us all we see with you now the Roof taken off the Glorious Work pulled down and lying desolat Now it hath pleased GOD to turn again and offer a Re-edifying of this Work as he did here to the People of this Temple seing therefore the LORD hath stirred up our Spirits to crave a Re-edifying of Christ's Kirk let us never take our hands from it till Christ have put the Copestone on it I hear some say Minister there is more ado yet ere that be done ye sing the Triumph before he Victory ye will not see it go up at leasure Indeed ye are deceived we sing not the Triumph before the Victory some of us are afraid that it go not up so suddenly I must say to you if it be GOD's Work as it is indeed all the Powers of the World shall never be able to hinder the putting on of the Cope-stone ay but say ye it will be hindered ere ye get the Work forward ye will find the Dint of the Fire and Sword let it be so if GOD will have it so that will not impede the Work if our Blood be spilt in this Cause the Cope-stone shall be put on with our Blood for the Kirk of GOD hath never prospered better nor by the Blood of Saints fear not beloved this Work whether it be done peaceably or with Persecution the Copestone shall be put on it ye know in the beginning of the Reformation there was small Likelyhood that the Work should go up and be finished because of the great Power that was against it yet the LORD brought it forward against all Impediments and put the Copestone it that same GOD lives yet and is as able to put the Cope-stone on this Work as he was then if ye believe 3. The third thing in this Work is a Work praised He shall bring forth the head stone thereof with Shouting Crying Grace Grace unto it all ye that builds and beholds the Work will love the Work and will all wish it well He alludes by appearance who when the Foundation of a Common Work is laid rejoyces and when it is finished rejoyces ye may see this clear in Ezra 3. 11. at the laying of the Foundation of this Temple the People shouted with a great Shout if they did that at the laying of the Foundation much more shall they do it at the bringing forth of the head stone thereof as is said here the Words they cry grace grace the Phrase comprehends under it these three things 1First A Wish of the People of GOD whereby they wish Prosperity to the Work ye may see it was a common Wish Ier. 31. 23. Thus saith the LORD of Hosts yet they shall use use this Speech in the Land of Judah and Cities thereof when I shall bring again their Captivity The LORD bless thee O Habitation of Iustice and Mountain of Holiness 2dly It comprehends under it a Thanksgiving the Workers give all Praise to the Work Ezra 10. 11. When the Builders laid the Foundation of the Temple they set the Priests with their Trumpets and the Levites with their Cymbals to praise the LORD after the Ordinance of David They Sang by Course Praising GOD and giving Thanks unto the LORD because he is good and his Mercy endureth for ever 3. The third thing it comprehends under it is a faithful acknowledgment that the Work is built and finished by no power and strength of Men but by the Grace of GOD look the Verse preceeding the Text and ye will find it thus not by might or by power but by my Spirit saith the LORD of hosts ye may easily apply this Our Work that GOD is bringing up and will finish should be a Praised Work our Wishes should be to it The LORD bless thee O Habitation of Iustice and Mountain of Holiness our Song of Thanksgiving should be in our Mouths GOD is good and his Mercy endureth for ever albeit it go up let us not ascribe any thing to our selves but let us ascribe all to the Grace of GOD and this will stop all the Mouths of Disdainers who say who are ye who think to finish such a Work we answer it will be finished not by might or by strength of Man but by the Spirit of the LORD of Hosts There are three sorts looking to this Work and to the going up of it 1. Evil-Willers 2. Well-Wishers 3. Neutrals 1. The Evil-Willers are Edom and he was Iacob's Brother yet in Ps. 137. he cryes raze raze this Work to the Foundation There is a number that is crying raze raze this Work to the Foundation 2. There is a second sort that are Well-Wishers crying grace grace be unto it in those former Years the Shout of Raze Raze hath been louder than Grace Grace but now GOD be praised the Shout of Grace Grace is louder than Raze Raze 3. There is a third sort gazing upon this Work that dare not cry raze raze because they are born down with Grace Grace they dare not cry Grace Grace for fear of Authority What shall I say to these Neutrals they are so uncapable of Admonition that it will be a spending of time to crave their Concurrence to the Work to whom shall I speak then my Text is an Apostrophe if I may use one that which I shall use first is GODs own Words from Isaiah Isai. 1. 3. Hear O Heaven Hearken O Earth for the LORD hath spoken I have nourished and brought up Children and they have rebelled against me I will next turn me to Strangers and Forreigners all ye of Reformed Kirks what have I said Strangers thir Men who are are brought up in the Kirk are Strangers from the Womb Psal. 58. 3. But ye are joyned with us in a Corporation come therefore with your fellow feeling let us hear your Shouts and Cryes of Grace Grace be unto the Kirk of Scotland and let your Wishes condemn thir ungrateful Neutrals who professes themselves Children of this Kirk and yet will not rejoice with us for the Well of our Mother Now ye have heard this Text in all thir six Steps 1. First a Mountain seen 2. A Mountain reproved and disdained 3. A Mountain to be removed 4. A growing Work 5. To be finished 6. With great applause of all

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