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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92076	A sermon preached before His Grace the Kings Commissioner, at the three estates of Parliament, May the 25th, 1690 By Gilbert Rule minister of the Gospel at Edinburgh.	Rule, Gilbert, 1629?-1701.	1690 (1690)	Wing R2227; ESTC R232140	12,050	23

A SERMON Preached before His GRACE the Kings Commissioner And the Three ESTATES OF PARLIAMENT May the 25th 1690. By GILBERT RULE Minister of the Gospel at Edinburgh EDINBVRGH Printed at the Society of Stationers Printing-house in Harts-Close over-against the Trone-Church for George Mosman Bookseller at his Shop on the South-side of the Parliament-Close 1690. READER IT was not Choice but the Appointment of the General Meeting of the Presbyterian Ministers which made me with much Reluctancy to appear before so Great and Discerning an Auditory I was led to the Subject here treated of by observing that the Affairs of this Church and its Settlement after a long time wherein things hath been not of Course in it were under the Parliaments consideration And I was moved to allow the Printing of this Discourse only by the Command of Authority without which nothing could have prevailed with me to have made it so publick wherein there is nothing to commend it save the Divine Truths that are the matter of it As the Interest of Religion was our solicitude when these Thoughts were conceived and delivered So now we are filled with Joy while we behold the Religious regard that the High and Honourable Court of Parliament have shewed to the Mountain of the Lords House above other Mountains which they truly are and ought to be concerned about in the great step towards the establishing thereof that they made by their Vote 28th Instant Settling the Protestant Religion and the Presbyterian Church Government and their proceeding to consider the other things needful for promoting Religion in this Church and Nation That the Lord may help them to go on as they have begun and hitherto acted and reward them for their Good Deeds toward his House and that he may bless what here followeth for Soul advantage to them who read it is the earnest Prayer of Thine and the Church's Servant G. R. Edinburgh May 30th 1690. A SERMON ON Isaiah 2. Chap. 2 ver And it shall come to pass in the last dayes that the Mountain of the Lords house shall established in the top of the Mountains and shall be exalted above the Hills And all Nations shall flow unto it REligion and the Church which is the Chiefe mean of propogating it in the World is the most contemptible thing to many men ●hat can be and that which most men are least concerned about But as it alwayes ought to be otherwayes so the Lord here promiseth that there shall be a time when it shall be more regarded This promise was made to the Church before the Captivity in Babylon that it might be a support to the Faithful in that dark Hour And it is repeated Micha 4. and 1. As that which was needful and yet hard to be beleived We are here to consider First the certainty of the event It shall come to pass Or be Whatever unlikelyhood or letts may be in the way God hath said it Secondly the time of it the last dayes the dayes of the Gospel Or when God hath exercised his People with Tryal he will at last put an end to their trouble and bring this about for their comfort Thirdly The subject spoken of the Mountain of the Lords House By this no doubt is meant the Church or the Religious interest of Men Mount Zion that is one of the two tops of it called Mount Moriah where the Temple was built was a name ordinariely given to the Church of God And from the Dialect of the old Testament it is transferred to the new Testament Wherefor by the Mountain of the House of the Lord is meant the Church It is she It is the Religion owned and professed in her and Gods ordinances whereby she is distinguished from other Societies that is here promised to be exalted so high The Church or the concernments of Religion may well be called a Mountain both from her Eminency and also from her stability Fourthly two things are said of this Mountain her preference to other things and her increase are both asserted For the former it is to be considered First absolutely that she shall be Established 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth both preparation and fixedness And indeed hath a great Emphasis in this place The Church shall be prepared That is Men shall use the greatest application the greatest Care the greatest Wariness Consideration and Zeal they shall imploy all their Wit all their Activity and Care And not only so but the Lord will imploy his infinite Wisdom and Goodness for her being setled on lasting Foundations Rashness Headiness Indifferency and worldly Designs are not like to make good work when Men are about settling the Church It will make an ill contrived building that will not stand long The Church saith the Text also shall be Established That is fixed made impregnable so as the Malice and open enmity of Enemies nor the treachery of false Friends shall not be able to brangle her Constitution And the Lord will make her firm on the Rock that the Gates of Hell shall not prevaile against her It is also said that she shall be exalted or be made great and glorious God will put a Lustre on Her And men when the Lord poureth out the Spirit on them that seemeth to be promised in the Text will contribute what they can to promote her Spiritual Glory 2ly Comparatively The Church must be fixed and exalted above the Mountains and Hills That is preferred to all the other Interests of Men however great they he in the Eyes of the World the Lord will make Her more Glorious then any other Society or false Church And men will when this promise is fullfiled prefer Her Interest to all that can be dear to them or great in their Eyes The other thing that is said of the Church is that all Nations shall flow to Her when God shall thus exalt Her and when men shall thus shew their zeal for Her many will come to Her joyn with Her submit to Her it will be a Terrour to Enemies and an allurement to Strangers Diverse practical and important Truths might be observed from this Text But I pitch upon this one as of great use and necessity to be considered by this Audience at this time to wit That God will and Men ought to prefer the Interest of the Church and Religion to all other Concernments whatsoever Let us for our more distinct procedure consider First What this Religious Interest is and what are the great things to which it must be preferred Secondly How God will prefer it Thirdly How men should do it Fourthly Why it should be so For the First we must consider that Christ is a King Psal 2. v. 6. And though his Kingdom be not of this World Jo. 18. 36. Yet it is in this World And his Royal Power is exercised visibly among Men. Math 28. 19 20 with the 18. And that as distinguished from though no way opposite to and far less inconsistent with the Kingdoms