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truth_n	church_n	divine_a	scripture_n	4,128	5	6.1291	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77480	Satan the leader in chief to all who resist the reparation of Sion. As it was cleared in a sermon to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast, Febr. 28. 1643. By Robert Baylie, minister at Glasgow. Published by order of the House of Commons.	Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing B468; Thomason E35_17; ESTC R209954	47,169	63

SATAN THE Leader in chief to all who resist THE REPARATION OF SION As it was cleared in a Sermon to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemn Fast Febr. 28. 1643. By ROBERT BAYLIE Minister at Glasgow Published by Order of the House of Commons Micah 6.9 and 7.8 9. The Lords voice cryeth unto the City and the man of wisdome shall see thy name heare ye the rod and who hath appointed it Rejoice not against me O mine enemy when I fall I shall arise when I sit in darknesse the Lord shall be a light unto me I will beare the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him untill he plead my cause and execute judgment for me he will bring me forth to the light and I shall behold his righteousnesse London Printed for SAMUEL GELLIBRAND at the Brasen Serpent in Pauls Church-yard 1643. Die Mercurii 28. Febr. 1643. IT is this day Ordered by the Commons House of Parliament That Mr. Rous doe from this House give thanks unto Master Baylie for the great paines he took in the Sermon he preached this day at the intreaty of this House at St. Margarets Westminster It being the day of publike Humiliation And to desire him to Print his Sermon And he is to have the like priviledge in Printing of it as others in like kinde usually have had H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I appoint SAMUEL GELLIBRAND to Print this Sermon ROBERT BAYLIE For the Right Worshipfull his much honoured friend M. ROUS One of the Members of the Honourable House of COMMONS Right Worshipfull THese late times have produced many great and sensible changes in many Time a great changeling both matters and persons I must acknowledge the power of time that mighty changeling over my minde also Some four yeers ago it was my wish and very passionate desire then publikely expressed to have had that favour of your honorable House as once to speak in their audience Ladens Autocat Praef. Notwithstanding the other day when in their Honours Name you did offer to me that singular courtesie how unwilling I was to entertain it my own heart doth know fully and you in a part can bear witnesse Verily my former desires to speak when I could not be heard were no greater then my present to keep silence when I was required to speak As I would have been very glad in so honourable an Audience to have said nothing so when your entreaty in sō great a Name had necessitated me to speak something I could have wished that what then was said might have past away without any farther notice But being it was your desire that what then was spoken should now go abroad esteeming it unfit to dispute any of your Commands in this also you shall have me obedient Be pleased therefore to receive what you required of me the Notes of that poor Sermon without any addition at all and without any change considerable It is well if it finde in the eyes of others when read that patience and respect which it had in your ears at the first hearing I know the matter it self is above any just contempt The scope of the Sermon for it is not mine but the Spirit of God's speaking to the Churches That of it which belongeth to me the managing of these divine Truths and their Application to the auditor I leave to the benigne construction of every Reader intreating his belief it was my sincere intention with so great simplicity and clearnesse as I was able To speak a word in season to every soul To let out from the fountains of Scripture the streams of consolation on the dry and parcht ground To send down from the Lamps of the Word the Rayes of divine Light for direction in these dark and misty days By the terrours of the Lord to perswade some To smite with the rod with the Sword of the Spirit the secure souls of our sleeping friends to awaken them and of our too watchfull enemies to pull them with fear but yet with all compassion out of the snare of Satan wherein now they lie captive at his will The Text led me by the hand to that most seasonable Consideration That in all quarrells about the building or rebuilding of a Church The chief parties in the present quarrell are Christ and the Devill the chief and principall parties are Christ and the Devill Men are but inferiour and subservient agents to these two Princes It is most certain That side which is for Truth for Piety for Justice must in the end triumph For it is utterly impossible that the Dragon and all his Angels though for a time and a long time they maintain the fight should ever prevail over Michael the Arch-Angel and his followers These extraordinary Commotions whereby not our Kingdom alone but the most of the neighbouring Nations are at this very hour so terribly shaken we trust they shall prove preparations for a glorious Work At the building of a Royall Palace where much rubbish is to be removed by many hands where timber stones and other materialls are to be brought together and set in the work by a multitude of divers Crafts-men no marvell if in that place for a time there be much noise and stirre much commotion and some confusion also Doubtlesse ere long The end of the present troubles must be happy the Scene of this world must be closed the Man of Sin must be beaten from the Stage which long he hath possessed The Rebellion must be removed from Jacob and the Iron sinew taken out of the neck of Israel The fulnesse of the Gentiles must be brought in with them that both may mourn after Christ their common Saviour The shaking of the Heavens and Earth are the Lords Prefaces and Prologues his antecedent Acts which must be followed with such joyfull Conclusions When we are most tossed with Tempests when we are most likely to be split upon the Rocks of desperate dangers then would we cast up within the Vail the holy Ankor of this hope the strong Cable of this confident expectation In the subsequent Discourse I glance at one Point which I wish were well weighed by all who truely minde the prosperity of the Work in hand The longsome Anatchy of this Church is lamentable Durst I have taken the boldnesse of prefacing to the whole House as indeed I was loath to presume it having already by the length of my Sermon taken from them so much of their precious time it would have been all or at least my main purpose to have proposed to their Honours and pressed that one Consideration which now forsooth is become so triviall and common in the mouth of every one that it seemeth to be rare in the heart and reall sense of many I mean these extraordinary and unexpected delays of setting up the Government of God in his House The ordering of the State and Kingdom The first care of the