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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85505	Things now-a-doing: or, The chvrches travaile of the child of reformation now-a-bearing. In a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons, at their solemne fast, Iuly 31. 1644. By Stanley Gower, sometimes Rector of Brompton-Brian in the County of Hereford, now Preacher of Gods Word at Martins Ludgate, London: and one of the Reverend Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the said House.	Gower, Stanley.	1644 (1644)	Wing G1462; Thomason E3_25; ESTC R2879	23,719	43

bound up in the heart and the rod of correction drives it away And for actuall Isaiah sheweth that by correction the iniquity of Jacob shall be purged and this is all the fruite to take away his sin Secondly From sinne to be committed I meane to prevent your sinning for time to come Tribulations are not only medicines but also antidotes God in this doth as wise States-men when they see a man busying himselfe much with matters of state at home prying into things concerne him not they send such into the warres abroad so doth God send tribulations to exercise his people and keepe them pure least they fall soule thus did he with S. Paul he had his thorne least he should be exalted c. and thus they are purified both in heart and lift to cu●e sin past and prevent sin to come Againe by these they are made white so Dan. 11. 35. And some of them of understanding shall fall to try them and to purge and to make them white even to the time of the end It is not enough to be pure which renders a man holy to God but to be bright and white before men Inward purity makes no great shew before men unlesse whitenesse and unspottednesse doe accompany it now there are two wayes that God will have his people white as well as pure at this time First From their own other mens sins You Right Honourable have confessed justly that the guilt of Idolatry and blood lay upon our fore-fathers I may say of these as of the iniquity of P●or we are not cleansed from it to this day Manassehs sins lay heavy upon the Land in good Iosiahs dayes God will have our Land made white from these Secondly From their own-suspected sinnes Two sinnes the enemies of our peace suspect in you and falsely charge upon you give me leave to speake plainly Disloyalty to our Soveraigne from which your Declarations and proceedings may acquit you and Sacriledge against our God from which the world expects how you will acquit your selves certainely when God hath purified you he will make you white as he did David against S●ul even by his own confession and Ioseph against his Mistris nay as he hath done you already in many things and what remaines you have in promise for the cause is before the Lord who will give a perfect lot Hee hath said Commit thy way unto the Lord trust also in him and he shall bring it to passe And he shall bring forth thy righteousnesse as the light and thy judgement as the noone day Thus the Lord will by tribulation both purifie them in heart and life and whiten them from the spot of other mens sinnes and their own suspected sins Thirdly By these both times and troubles they are tried The Iewes had not only their sprincklings and washings but also their water of jealousie and other meanes by which they were tried so hath God his troubles not only to rid his people of sinne and to render them spotlesse before men but also to try them Gods trials are of two sorts some for humiliation then he leaves them to know all that is in their heart as he did Hezekiah others for confirmation then he assists them as he did Abraham By these tribulations God trieth his peoples Sincerity Graces First He trieth their sincerity if they will stick to a good cause without defection and goe on in a good course without deflection Certainely these times and troubles make the same discovery of men as former did then there were some confessors some Martyrs others Traditors that in time of tribulation went away Errors must be that they that are approved may be knowne and doctrines and practises of liberty must be that well rooted and grounded Christians may be distinguished from children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men and cunning craftinesse whereby they lie in waite to deceive Tribulations are like great winds which fasten trees well rooted but throw downe the rest There have been and daily are many both in Church and State thus tryed some Darius-like labour earnestly to the going downe of the Sun and then they goe back It was great triall a while agoe what men would set themselves against the Prelates and their proceedings how men would fortifie their spirits against their summons Courts Censures imprisonments and sore oppressions God hath delivered us thence and after these brings more publike and universall trials how men will stand in and for the publike who be the Calebs and Ioshuahs that will goe on to the accomplishment of reformation against the Anakims and who will lust after the flesh pots of Egypt who will waite upon God and goe when he bids and stay when he stayes and who will goe their own way as they then did we are just thereabouts now and if any fall off we are told before hand it is the issue of their insincerity They went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would no doubt have continued with us but they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us Secondly He trieth their graces He that hath any grace may now know what he hath I will instance in three First He trieth their Love how fast they are gl●wed to God and his cause that no affliction can part them whether they are as willing to be turned into a prison for his sake as into their own habitation Love is of this nature Many waters cannot quench Love neither can the floods drowne it Secondly He trieth their Faith Our Saviour Christ is still upon this with his Disciples O ye of little Faith Had men Stephens eyes to see a Iosus in the Heavens when stones were ●●ying about their eares or a Moses eyes to see the recompence of reward did they by faith see Gods attributes put forth for their helpe they would not stagger what side to take to nor what to doe but would readily answer as those Heroes O King we are not carefull to answer thee in this matter If it be so our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of thy hand O King but if not be it knowne to thee O King that we will not serve thy gods nor worship thy graven images which thou hast set up All the graces which grow among thornes and thistles attending upon faith meeknesse patience c. will now be tried and discovered Thirdly He trieth their Love to one another what sympathy they have to those that suffer with them or for them You have Ministers the Country wants them hither come the godly and faithfull of the land that have suffered the losse of all God tries now what hast you will make Right Honourable