necessarie to carry on my work But if you would study and endeavour to have right uptakings of me as the LORD of hosts Stronger by far than all your Enemies then ye will not be affraid to go on in the work when you see I am able to secure you against all oppositions And indeed right uptakings of GOD and his promised presence will be argument enough to put Life Courage in the most timorous Member of this house to act vigorously for GOD and his intrests when inferiour Creatures are backed with superiour they will put on courage and venter far a cowardly Souldier or Servant when he is under a couragious Captain or Master will be quite another thing than alone how much more should Magistrats Ministers and people be valiant for the truth when they have GOD to own them Psalm 118 6. The LORD is on my side I will not fear what man can do unto me and how safe and secure will that Land that Church be about whom the LORD will be as a wall of fire whatever carnal reason may say to the contrair and to have God not only to be a wall of fire round about But to be the Glory in the midst of us must be a desireable state for as this will reflect comfort upon us who are lodged within such blessed Boundarie so it will reflect terrour upon the Adversaries which will make them not only not to come neat but to flee away as you have it Psal 48.3.4.5 and 6 Verse GOD is known in her palaces for a Refuge For Lo the Kings were Assembled they passed by together they saw it and so they marvelled they were troubled and hasted away fear took hold on them and pain as a Woman in Travel And O what a Rich promise have we for such a securitie if we will but answer GODS Call and be found in our dutie Zech. 2.5 For I saith the Lord will be unto her a wall of fire round about and will be the glorie in the mdst of her Why should we be affraid for if we under so many eminent Calls of GOD and so many gracious promises of his presence and conduct then we are under a Captain General that never failed his Church can accomplish their compleat deliverance over the greatest enemies that oppose it he can lay Pharaoh and his Army in the deepths of the Sea and divide the mighty waters that his Redeemed might pass through He can make the little hills and great mountains to get out of the Way Psal 114 verse 3. The sea saw it and fled Jordan was driven back The mountarns skipped like Rams the little hills like Lambs why what was the matter could not thou O Sea have kept still thy ordinary motion and currents you little hils and great mountains your ordinary posture and place and have stopped the deliverance of the Church out of Aegypt and their march towards Canaan Was it the terrour of Pharaoh and his host or of Moses and the armies of Israel that made you quite your ground and give way No no it was for none of these if they had not been headed by the Mighty GOD of Jacob it was the presence of JEHOVAH that made the Earth to tremble the depths dry up and the mountains get out of the Churches way verse 5. What ailed thee O thou Sea that thou fleddest Thou Jordan that thou wast driven back Verse 6. Ye mountains that ye skipped like Rams and ye little hills like Lambs ver 7. Tremble thou Earth at the presence of the LORD at the presence of the GOD of Jacob. What need you fear then to throw down the Groves Repair GODS Altar and build His house Gideon and Nehemiah like when the LORD of Hosts is with you may you not clearly see that your help is in the Name of the Lord but your fear is in the name of man Are you Zerubbabels Joshuas and Nehemiahs Persons in publick Trust then ye ought to carry like God because ye are in Gods place And carry by your Offices that Tittle in the World Psal 82.6 I said ye are Gods c. And among other things ye should resemble Him in Courage and Holiness are none of the least What a vile sight is it to see a drunken god or a swearing god if I may so express it And how unbecoming a thing is it also to see a trembling god You that ought to be a terrour to others and would be so if you manage that Office and Trust aright with that Courage Resolution and Boldness yet when you faint in it in order to the work of God it sayes that other persons and inferiours too are a terrour to you Now for removing of this distemper of Humane and slavish fear that Courage and Resolution may take its place Let me recommend this one Remedie unto one and all of you especially such as stand in publick Office and it is a cure with a probatum est tryed and left to Magistrates and Ministers by that great man Moses Heb. 11.27 verse it is said there He feared not the wrath of a King as seeing Him who is invisible And yet any might think he had great reason to be afraid of so potent an Enemie who with his Ancestours had detained the Church in bondage for four hundred years and so it is like questioned neither his power nor his right to detain them But the Text tells you what was the Antidote against this fear Viz. That by Faith be saw Him who is invisible his faith was at work in heaven to get God to counsel assist strengthen him while his hands were at work on Earth to relieve the Church and people of GOD from their Long and sore Bondage I wish that all the great Ones of the Land and especially such as are in publick Office had the Exercise of this Faith by which they might take up the Almighty power of God and his Every where Presence that so their fears and faint-heartedness might be removed if Moses had been possessed with many peoples fears in our day it 's like he would have made an Act of Comprehension and Compounded with Pharoah and so matted the Churches deliverance This was the Remedie that good Hezekiah also made use of to encouradge his Subjects and Souldiers against the fears and threats of a very bold and huffie Adversary as you may read 2 Chron 32. Verse 7. Be strong and Couragious be not afraid nor dismayed for the King of Assyria nor for all the multitude that is with him for there is moe with us then with him Verse 8. With him is an arm of flesh but with us is the Lord our God to help us and to fight our battels And while he made use of this excellent Remedy for their Support and Encouragement under such sad Circumstances how succesful was it for the relief of the spirits of that people Therefore it is said in the Latter part of the 8. Verse The
the Philistins did their Armie 1 Sam. 4 9. O Be strong and quite your selves like men do your duty with Resolution Courage and Faithfulness and the LORD shal be with you to deliver the Land from these Task-Masters But if ye be not strong c then you may provoke GOD to let us fall before the Philistins even at Ebenezar verse 1. and 2. The place where GOD has hitherto helped will you take that prophetical Encouragement for the latter dayes to animate you to the work Dan. 11.32 For tho such as do wickedly against the Covenant be Corrupted by Flatteries yet the People that know their GOD shall be strong and do Exploits And if there be still any of you false and faint-hearted in the Matters of GOD and the King then I Proclaim Gideons Proclamation Judges 7.3 Whosever is fearful and afraid let him return and depart early from mount Gilead And that Proclamation Deut 20. and 8 verse And who is there that is fearful and faint-hearted let him go and return unto his house lest his Brethrens Heart faint as well as his Heart Secondly This Call be strong and work thrice repeated and thrice backed with Thus saith the LORD prohibites all further delay of the matter this People had done it too too long You that are Magistrats Ministers and people would delay this business no longer for by so doing 1st You discourage friends and begets many fears in them and doubtings what may be the Issue of such delays and whether this begun work will thrive or not and this cannot but beget a great deal of sorrow in the hearts of the Godly Secondly This gives great encouragement to the opposite partie and puts a further opportunitie in their hands to gather to a greater strength against the present work to marr it and if they could to overturn it yea your fears and backwardness gives the enemies to take greater heart and Courage Therefore let me say to you as the Gibeonites did to Joshua chap. 10 6. Slack not thy hand from thy servants come up to us quickly and save us for all the Kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us You see the sad effects of a short delay Exod 32 1. When Moses stayed but fourty days upon the mount the people fell to Idolatrie and what if your lingring to bring us out of the sad I had almost said Sodom like state that we have too long been into draw down remarkeable Judgements on us as it did on that people Gen 19 16 17 ver and are there not many of the people of GOD crying out as it is Judges 5 28. Why are his Chariot wheels so long of coming Thirdly This Call in my Text be strong c. prohibits a Laish carelesness and a Gallios unconcernedness in the great matters amongst your hands and calls for Seriousness Wisdom and diligence in the managing of so great a Trust and not to be like that People of whom it was said they dwelt carelesly Judges 18.27 They were a quiet and secure people and the Danites came upon them and burnt their City with fire Ye know Gallios Character Acts 18.17 verse He cared for none of these things And is there any thing under Heaven that we should be so much concerned about or careful of as the Work of GOD committed to us And Magistrates and all other persons concerned would often Remember that as it is Great Trust that is committed to them so they must Answer for the right or wrong Management of it before an Impartial Judge which should make us to endeavour so to act in our Station as we may be approven and accepted of him in that day But peradventure this Argument will have greater weight with many GOD in His Providence hath put our Religion Libertys and Properties in one bottom and he must have been very blind that did not see that when our Religion was almost gone our Liberties and Properties were following hard and running the same fate the one was going with the other Therefore we would do well to have a special respect to and care of the Work of GOD now while we are called to recover it and establish it for it is the surest mean for preserving our Liberties and properties and if we neglect the one GOD may be provoked to permitt our Enemies to Robbe us of all Fourthly This Exhortation be strong seeing it calls as we have said to unitie and Harmonie so on the other hand it prohibites Magistrats Ministers people to fall into divisions and factions for that will indeed make them weak so mar retard the work they are called to If Satan his instruments can make GODS Ministers and people to differ and clash among themselves they know it will prove a notable mean to forslow the work of GOD among your hands divide impera is a Stratagem still made use of in all Ages and it is not out of fashion yet and O that we may not have no more reason to lament the divisions of our Reuben Viz our rulers as the first born were with that Lamentation with which Deborah and Barak Lamented their divisions because they came not out to help the LORD against the mighty but abode among the sheepfolds when they were eminently called to arise and unanimously to appear and joyn for the reviving of the Work of GOD that was lying in the Ashes and though all the people of GOD in the Land were called to joyn with them from all Corners and help them in this work Yet many lurked and withdrew fearing that Undertaking might not prosper and then if they had joyned their Estates would have been Ruined how was Deborah and Barab affected with this as we may read in that doubled Lamentation Judges 5.15 and 16. verses verse 15. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of Heart and these divisions the more they thought on them were more deeply affecting wounding therefore they must sigh and lament it over again verse 16. For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart enquiring as it were what might be the cause of these lamentable divisions as also what might be the Cure I come now to the Reasons of the Doctrine which shew you why all Ranks of people in the Land should be strong and joyn cordially and unanimously together to carry on a begun work of Reformation Reason 1. Because it is GODS Work the building of His House and the reforming of His Church from corruptions that it has been defiled with is the most Honourable Eminent and special Work that GOD calls the Children of men to in this World David did see and think it to be a very Honourable and Excellent Work when he made so many and great preparations to bring home the Ark which was fourty years out of its place When he mustered up Thirty thousand of the chosen men of Israel to bring it from Kirjath Jearim
and we may not only see his fortitude and courrage in this Undertaking but his Zeal as ye have it set down Psal 132. I will not go up to my bed nor give sleep to mine eyes nor slumber to mine eye lids till I find out a place for the Mightie GOD of Jacob. And when they came to the Ark you see what is their supplication Verse 8. Arise O LORD to thy rest We are come to carrie GOD back again so to speak and the Ark of GOD that has been so long out of the Land and out of the Sanctuary we see also how gladly he would have been at the building of the Temple and what preparations he had made for it But when he saw that the honour was to be conferred upon his Son Solomon how does he press him to forwardness and faithfulness in that matter 1 Chron 22. to the 14 Now my Son The LORD be with thee only the LORD give thee Wisdom and Vnderstanding and give thee Charge concerning Israel that thou mayest keep the Law of the LORD thy GOD then shalt thou prosper if thou takest heed to fulfil the Statutes and Judgements which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel Be strong of good Courage dread not nor be dismayed So that you see what estimate this great and holy man put upon the work of GOD and how concerned he was about it as the principal business he had to do in the World and 1 Samuel 2.30 verse GOD hath said he that honours me I will honour O how dangerous is it to have an opportunity put in our hand to serve GOD and his Interest and not to guide it well and what ever figure any of You may make in the World yet you only signify so far in the sight of GOD as You act for him in your Station and Generation and do you not know that many may stand for a great summ make a great figure in the eyes of men that will stand but for ciphers in Heavens Arithmetick Reason second As it is GODS Work so he visiblie clearly and eminently calls us to it and that by these six Calls First By the call of his word for the Reformation we are called to is that which is suited unto GODS Law contained in his written Word and the LORD hath Honoured Scotland beyond many other Nations of the World in that he hath written unto us the great things of his Law Hosea 8.12 O that we may not count them a light thing And may it not be said of us as Psal 146 19 20 He sheweth his word unto Jacob his statutes and his Judgements unto Israel He hath not dealt so with every Nation Have we then GODS Laws His Statutes and his Judgements then certainly we have them either for something or nothing and can they be given us for any thing else but to direct our service and obedience to GOD and is there any of you the honourable members of this Parliament that will make Laws and promulgatt them and would not take it ill if the people did not Obey Would you not Judge such disobedient persons to the Law to be Rebells and punish them accordingly Of how much sorer punishment will they be found worthy that take no heed to the Laws of GOD revealled in His Word that they may give a Constant and Conscientious Obedience thereunto Now the Reformation that we are called to is most suitable unto this Divine Law which has been owned contended for and witnessed to by the Godly party in the Land and that of all Ranks both while they lived when they dyed and that as the purest Reformation of any Protestant Church and this was testifyed many years ago by a great man of this Nation who Blessed GOD that he was born in a Church whose Reformation was purer then that of England of France or Geneva And seeing we have Ordinances Means and Opportunities again put in our hands Persons of all Ranks had need to take Care to manage them so as we may give a good accompt of the Trust committed to us But least I transgress too far and trespass upon your patience I shall Close at this time The Second SERMON HAGGAI 2 4 Yet now be strong O Zerubbabel saith the LORD be strong O Joshua son of Josedech the high Priest and be strong all ye People of the Land saith the LORD and work For I am with you saith the LORD of Hosts THERE is nothing more to be lamented by the Sons of Men then this one thing that we have sinned our selves unto such a benighted and dark Condition as that we can neither take up our danger aright to flee from it nor our Duty and what is the rightest season for the right performance the reof So that in this Case we are more to be pittied then the beasts of the field For the Ox knoweth his Owner and the Ass his Masters Crib But Israel doth not know My People doth not consider Isaiah 1.3 Yea Jer 8.7 Yea then the birds of the Aire for the stork in the Heaven knoweth her appointed times and the Turtle and the Cran and the Swallow observe the time of her coming but My People know not the Judgement of the LORD And is it not a great peice of Condescending Love and Mercy in GOD that when we neither know nor consider our Work nor the season of it he Condesends to send Messengers to put us in mind of both This people when they proved Negligent in the greatest and most Important bunness in which their happiness was folded up He sends the Prophet Haggai to tell them what they had to do and what they had neglected and that if they would mourn for what Sins they had committed and what duties they had neglected be zealous and careful for the future in answering and obeying what GOD called them unto all bygones should be bygones If I may so speak yet now be Strong c. You know the Doctrine I was upon That it is the dutie of all Ranks of People in a Land to joyn Cordially and unanimously together to carrie on a begun work of Reformation when the LORD Eminently calls unto it and promises to be with them in it I am come the length of the 2d reason of the Doctrine to shew this Honourable Auditory that as this work is the work of GOD so he doth Eminently call you to it and that first by the call of his word as I have touched for if the Laws of Heaven given to the Jewish Church did obliedge them to renounce all Idolarrie and false worship and to reform and worship GOD precisely according to the Divine Iustitution do they not equallie oblige us are they not the rule in our day as well as they were in their day he 〈◊〉 not given us these statutes laws and Judgements for that very end that he gave them to the Church of old which if we do we shall live in them and which
see that your neglect in this thing will be of dreadfull consequence at the long run and that the persuite of the things of the world which divert you from this main business will bring you no comfort and be of no signification except it be to disquiet your conscience and increase your torment Thirdly From this consideration People of all Ranks should be moved to great Faithfulness Activity and Dilligence in the Matters of GOD because the Enemies that oppose this Work are very diligent lively and active Psal 38.19 Verse But mine Enemies are lively and they are strong and they that bate me wrongfully are multiplyed The Godly man complains here of his Enemies you see That they were strong and livey but does this discourage him Nay but on the contrare it awakens him to a more vigorous prosecution of his Work Thirdly This Exhortation being directed to all sorts of Persons States-men Church-men and Commons to be strong and work it calls all those cordially to unite and joyn together to build up the Temple of GOD whose foundations are already laid and then they shall accomplish the Prophesie of the latter dayes Zeph 3.9 For then will I turn to the people a pure Language that they may all call upon the Name of the LORD to serve him with one consent And as the words are rendred in the Originall Language they shall serve the LORD with one Shoulder I suppose that many may have heard of the Father that had a great many Sons and when he was going to make his Latter Will he called for them and commended unto them a keeping of Unity and Harmony together in their Converse and Business which would greatly tend to their Comfort and Advantage and to demonstrate this to them he caused bring a Sheaf of Arrows closely tyed together and gave them to the Eldest to break but he could not breake them and so he gave them to the Younger sucessively and they could not break them but when they were divided they were easily broken so it is with Magistrates Ministers and People in the Land When they unanimously and cordially joyn together in the Work of GOD they cannot easily be broken and destroyed We say vis unita fortior and Unanimity in the work of GOD when all joyn together as it were with one Shoulder without lying by or interfeiring or drawing back or obstructing one another is a good taken of a thriving work when Magistrates make such Laws as authorize only the true worship of GOD and take care to see them duely execute that such as hinder uniformity in Religious Worship may be removed that so the Doctrine Worship Discipline Government of the House of the GOD of Heaven may be according to the Laws of the GOD of heaven through the whole Land For purity of Doctrine does not consist in a Lawless Liberty or Tolleration for men to do and say what they please in matters of Religion But it consists in a joynt uniformity to Worship GOD according to his own precept and this promise they shall all serve the LORD with one Consent which was calculate for the latter days So much then you see is implyed in this Exhortation be strong viz Courage and Resolution Activity and Diligence with Unity and Harmony In the next place I come to shew you negatively what this Exhortation be strong prohibits or what is not meant by it As 1. It forbids timorousness for men to be possessed with a humane or slavish fear that keeps them back from their Duty to GOD and His Work in their Station this is a thing very unbecoming to such as are Zerubbabels Joshuas and Nehemiahs should such persons as they fear Whom had they to be affraid of but cursed Canaanites and such as were no better in after Generations What could Nehemiah and these that were with with him be affraid of when he was come from Babylon cloathed with the Kings Letters and Authority in order to the carrying on of the forslowed work of Reformation surely he had not the King neither the GOD of Heaven nor the honest party of the Land to be affraid of I know none that might be a terrour to him and them that were joyned with him but the Gerizzim party who were sinfully united to oppose violently and cunningly the building of the Temple and the true Worship of GOD that they would so gladly have destroyed Let me say it to this Honourable and High Court of Parliament without offence and in all Humility what have you to be affraid of that you should be Faint hearted in the Work of GOD surely it cannot be of the GOD of Heaven nor of our Gracious King and Queen not of the Protestant Princes abroad nor of such as are true Protestants at home sure all these will be Cordial Friends to our carrying on the Work of Reformation and when ye have all these on your side you may well be strong and put on Courage and Resolution for you have a mighty great backing But of whom are you indeed affraid Is it of the Pope or of the French King and his Allies or is it of the Gerizzim party of these Lands That they get up their head again and that ye and your Posterity and Estates be ruined Surely the Midwives of Aegypt will rise up in Judgement against you who were in worse Circumstances then you are and yet were not affraid of the wrath of the King but even over the Belly of Dangerous Laws befriended the Children of Israel How much more should ye whom GOD in his Providence has raised up to Midwive out the Churches deliverance and are under the terrour of no bad Laws to frighten you from your work Put on Courage and Resolution to help your Travelling Mother the Church to bring forth the Man-Child of a Glorious Reformation and then I may promise ye shall be blessed as these Midwives were Exod. 1.21 Of whom it is said because they feared the LORD be made them houses That is he preserved and Increased Propagated and Enriched them and their Familys Will you read believe that Scripture Isaiah 51.12 13. verses compared with the 7 verse I even I am be that comforteth you who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die and of the son of man that shall be made as grass and forgettest the LORD thy Maker Who hath stretched forth the Heavens and laid the foundations of the Earth And hast feared continualie everie day because of the furie of the oppressour as if he were readie to destroy and where is the furie of the oppressour And verse 7. Fear ye not the reproach of men neither be afraid of their revilings For verse 8. The Moth shall eat them like a Garment and the Worms shall eat them like Wool but my Righteousness shall be for ever and my Salvation from Generation to Generation But if these Enemies were never so formidable and numerous Let me bespeak you as the Leaders of
if we disobey and despise they will not a little contribute to aggravate our Condemnation The second Call To carrie on a begun work of Reformation is that of eminent and remarkable providences when there has been nothing for many years but a mixture of sad things to the Land and the work of GOD in it carried on by the black Horses and speckled Horses if I may say so strange and sad dispensations of Providence whereby Jacob was given to the spoil and Israel to the Robbers whereby we were brought unto the brink of the pit ready to perish all our expectations failing us upon the right and left hand giving all up for lost both our Civil and Sacred concerns that at such a nick of distress as this the LORD should by his wonderful providence raise up a Deliverer to his own Church another Cyrus Yea and greater then Cyrus to give us such Reviving from our bondage as we are Witnesses to this day this is a thing that Remarkably calls us to observe the doing of the LORD and he who sees it not to be the doing of JEHOVAH must be lamentably blind And does not our great and Gracious King be speak you the Honourable Members of Parliament in the words that David bespoke his Princes 1 Chron. 22.17 Verse To the end David also commanded all the Princes of Israel to help Solomon his Son saying is not the LORD your GOD with you and hath He not given you Rest on every side for he hath given the inhabitants of the Land unto mine hand and the Land is subdued before the LORD and before his people Verse 19 Now therefore set your heart and your Soul to seek the LORD your GOD Arise therefore and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD GOD to bring the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD and the holy Vessels of GOD into the house that is to be built to the Name of the LORD This is a thing that any thinking Person when they seriously consider Cannot but admire and say that this is a remarkable and Eminent call of the providence of GOD to carrie on a begun work of Reformation when such an undeserved and unexpected opportunity is put in our hands and I am sure nothing will make his Majestie more renowned in after Generations of the World than that he has keeped so just a proportion between his first declarations for the saftie and good of the Protestant Religion and his future actings and in this he Acts like the high and Noble Family of whom he is descended who have been the great Protectours and Propogators of the Protestant Religion and is not this a new call of his Providence that though we these years bygone have not so well manage opportunities pur in our hand for advancing the work of GOD he gives us this one opportunity more For if he had not shewed his more then ordinary care these years bygone to preserve the work that he had begun and to keep the Ark in its returning from being overturned by special casts of providence this begun deliverance had been utterly frustrated and spoiled by our ill management but O that we could admire the wisdom and goodness of GOD and I take it as a Token for good that he has preserved his begun work over the Bellie of the cunningest and strongest devices of adversaries and of the undexterous and careless management of friends The third Call To carrie on the work of Reformation is from our Mother the Church of Scotland and that natural dutie and becoming kindness that we owe to her as such who is not yet got out of her Ruines she calls to us who are her professed Children as the Jewish Church did of old to hers by the Prophet Isaiah Chap 51 18. verse Is there none to guide her among all the Sons whom She hath brought forth is there none that taketh her by the hand of all the Sons that She hath brought up They would be counted unnatural Children that would no help their natural Mother that gave them a natural life out of her afflictions and distresses how much more unnatural Children must they be that will not help that Mother out of her miseries and troubles Especially when an Eminent Opportunity is put in their hands from whom they pretend to derive a Spiritual and Eternal Life They that refuse to do this they evidence themselves to be bastards and not true sons of the Church These persons hearts are like to that Mother that said to King Solomon she would have him to divide the Child but the true Mother was of another Sentiment who said I would rather ye should be Mother false as you are than the Child should be divided And by this she discovered her naturall Affection I say then we Evidence our selves to be Bastards and not true Children of the Church that are nor for advancing the work of the House of GOD for setting up all the Pillars and Ordinances thereof The Doctrine Discipline Worship and Government of the House of the GOD of Heaven according to the Laws of the GOD of Heaven the work must not be divided and doing what in us lyes Nehemiah like for that end he was a man concerned in the City of his GOD and sepulchres of his Fathers that were lying wast he was a man that sought the well-fare of Israel And what did he I will tell you what he did he obtained Letters from the King to Reverse Letters and Orders that the Enemys of GOD had received for hindering of the building for you will see in the Book of Ezra Chap 4 from the 4 verse That the people of the Land who were Gerizzim party did exceedingly weaken the hands of the people of Judah and troubled them in the building And verse 5 They hired Counsellours against them to frustrate their purpose the S. verse gives an account who they were Rehum the Chancellour and Shimshai the scribe and the rest of their Companions mentioned verse 9. And when they obtained these Letters they soon put them in execution to marr the prosperity of the People and Work of GOD as you see in the 23 verse of that Chapter Now when the Copy of Artaxerxes Letter was read before Reburn and Shimshai the scribe and their Companions they went up in haste to Jerusalem and to the Jews and made them to cease by force and power c. But honest and good Nehemiah was much concerned for this and was at no quiet till he procured Letters from the King that his stop might be taken away that stood in the way of the Reformation he is made the Remarkable Instrument to discover this plot that was for overturning the new begun Work of GOD and removing the impediments and was never at rest till he got the Work set on foot again Now if the LORD in His Wonderful and gracious Providence raise up some such Courtier or Cup bearer in our day Nehemiah-like when the case of our