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A42766	A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast Wednesday, March 27, 1644 by George Gillespie.	Gillespie, George, 1613-1648.	1644 (1644)	Wing G757; ESTC R24966	43,436	52

like to this of Ezekiel that we must take speciall notice of it and make that serve for a Commentary to this And there was given me saith Iohn a Reed like unto a Rod and the Ange●…stood saying Rise and measure the Temple of God and the Altar and them that worship therein But the Court which is without the Temple leave out and measure it not for it is given unto the Gentiles and the holy City shall they tread under foot forty and two moneths This time of two and forty moneths must be expounded by Revel. 13. 5. where it is said of the Beast power was given unto him to continue forty and two moneths which according to the Computation of Egyptian yeares re●…koning thirty dayes to each moueth make three yeares and a halfe or 1260. days and that is e the time of the witnesses prophecying in Sackcloth and of the womans abode in the wildernesse Now lest it should bee thought that the treading downe of the holy City by the Gentiles that is the treading under foot of the true Church the City of God by the tyranny of Antichrist and the power of his complices should never have an end in this world the Angel gives Iohn to understand that the Church the house of the living God shall not lye desolate for ever but shall be built again for the measuring is in reference to building that the Kingdome of Antichrist shall come to an end and that after 1260 yeares counting dayes for yeares as the Prophers doe It is not my purpose now to search when this time of the power of the beast and of the Churches desolation did begin and when it ends and so to find out the time of building this new Temple onely this much I trust I may say that if we reckon from the time that the power of the Beast did begin and withall consider the great revolution and turning of things upside downe in these our dayes certainly the work is upon the wheele the Lord hath pluckt his hand out of his bosome he hath whet his sword he hath bent his bow he hath also prepared the instruments of death against Antichrist so saith the Psalmist of all Persecutors Psal. 7. 12 13. but it will fall most upon that capitall enemy Whereof there will be occasion to say more afterward Let me here only adde a word concerning a fourth thing which the holy Ghost may seeme to intend in this Prophesie and that is the Church triumphant the new Ierusalem which is above unto which respect is to bee had as Interpreters iudge in some parts of the vision which happily cannot bee so well applyed to the Church in this world Even as the new Ierusalem is so described f in the Revelation that it may appeare to be the Church of Christ reformed beautified and inlarged in this world and fully perfected and glorified in the world to come and as many things which are said of it can very hardly bee made to agree to the Church in this world so other things which are said of it c●…n as ●…dly be applyed to the Church glorified in heaven as g where it is said Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men having come downe from God out of heaven and hee will dwell with them and they shall bee his people and God himselfe shall be with them and be their God h Againe And the nations of them that are saved shall walke in the light of it and the Kings of the earth doe bring their glory and honour into it But now I make haste to the severall particulars contained in my Text I pray God i saith the Apostle your whole spirit and soule and body be preserved blamelesse And what he there prays for this Text rightly understood and applied may work in us that is gracious affections gracious mindes gracious actions In the first place a change upon our corrupt and wicked affections If they be ashamed of all that they have done saith the Lord Secondly a change upon our blind minds Shew them the forme of the house and the fashion thereof c. Thirdly a change also upon our actions That they may keep the whole forme thereof and all the Ordinances thereof and doe them For the first k the word here used is not that which signifieth blushing through modesty but it signifieth shame for that which is indeed shamefull filthy and abominable so that it were impenitency and an aggravation of the fault not to be ashamed for it I shall here build onely one Doctrine which will be of exceeding great use for such a day as this If either we would have mercy to our selves or would doe acceptable service in the publike Reformation we must not onely cease to doe evill and learne to doe well but also be ashamed confounded and humbled for our former evill wayes Here is a two-fold necessity which presseth upon us this duty to loath and abhorre our selves for all our abominations to bee greatly abashed and confounded before our God First without this we shall not find grace and favour to our owne soules Secondly wee shall else miscarry in the worke of Reformation First I say let us doe all the good we can God is not pleased with us unlesse we be ashamed and humbled for former guiltinesse Be zealous and repent l saith Christ to the Laodecians be zealous in time comming and repent of your former lukewarmnesse What fruit had yee then in those things whereof now yee are ashamed m saith the Apostle to the Saints at Rome of whom n he saith plainly that they were servants to righteousnes and had their fruit unto holinesse but that is not all they were also ashamed while they looked back upon their old faults which is the rather to bee observed because o it maketh against the Antinomian error now a foot It hath a cleare reason for it for without this God is still dishonoured and not restored to his glory O Lord p saith Daniel righteousnesse belongeth unto thee but unto us confusion of faces Those two go together We must be confounded that God may be glorified Wee must bee judged that God may be iustified our mouthes must be stopped and laid in the dust that q the Lord may be just when he speaketh and cleare when he judgeth And as r the Apostle teacheth us that if we judge our selves we shall not be judged of God and by the rule of Contraries if we judge not our selves we shall be judged of God So say I now if wee give glory to God and take shame and confusion of faces to our selves God shall not confound us nor put us to shame But if we will not be confounded and ashamed in our selves God shall confound us and powre shame upon us If we loath not our selves God shall loath us Nay let me argue from the manner of men as s the Prophet doth offer it now unto

sake who through the presumption and unhumblednesse of their spirits will acknowledge no fault in any thing they have formerly done in Church matters I cannot leave this application to the Kingdome till I inlarge it a little further There are foure considerations which may make England ashamed and confounded before the Lord 1. Because of the great Blessings which it hath so long wanted Your flourishing estate in the world could not have countervailed the want of the purity and liberty of the Ordinances of Christ That was a heavie x word of the Prophet Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God and without a teaching Priest and without Law It hath not been altogether so with this Land where the Lord hath had not onely a true Church but many burning and shining lights many gracious Preachers and Professors many notable defenders of the Protestant cause against Papists many who have preached and written worthily of practicall Divinity and of those things which most concern a mans salvation Nay I am perswaded that all this time past there have been in this Kingdome many thousands of his secret and sealed ones who have been groaning under that burthen and bondage which they could not help and have been y waiting for the consolation of Israel Neverthelesse the Reformation of the Church of England hath been exceedingly deficient in Government Discipline and Worship yea and many places of the Kingdom have been without a teaching Priest and other places poisoned with false Teachers It is z said that all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord when they wanted the Ark twenty yeeres O let England lament after the Lord untill the Arke be brought into the own place of it 2. There is another cause of this great humiliation and that is the point in the Text to be ashamed of all that you have done Sinne Sinne is that which blacketh our faces and covereth us with confusion as with a Mantle and then most of all when we may read our sinne in some judgement of God which lyeth upon us Therefore the Septuagints here in stead of being ashamed of all that they have done a read accept their punishment for all that they have done Which agreeth to b that word in the Law If then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled The Greek readeth there ashamed and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity This is now Englands case whose sinne is written in the present Judgement and graven in your calamity as c with a pen of iron and with a point of a Diamond to make you say d The Lord our God is righteous in all his workes which he doeth for we obeyed not his voice Did not the land make Idoll Gods of the Court and of the Prelaticall Clergy and feared them and followed them more then God and obeyed them rather then God so that their threshold was set by Gods threshold and their posts by Gods posts as it is said v. 7. I speak not now of lawfull obedience to Authoritie Is it not a righteous thing with the Lord to make these your idols his rods to correct you Hath not England harboured and entertained Papists Priests and Jesuites in its bosome Is it not just that now you feel the sting and poison of these vipers Hath there not bin a great compliance with the Prelates for peace sake even to the preiudice of Truth Doth not the Lord now iustly punish that Episcopall peace with an Episcopall warre Was not that Prelaticall government first devised and since continued to preserve peace and to prevent Schismes in the Church and was it not Gods iust iudgement that such a remedy of mans invention should rather increase then cure the evill so that Sects have most multiplyed under that Government which now you know by sad experience Hath not this Nation for a long time taken the Name of the Lord in vaine by a formall worship and empty profession Is it not a iust requitall upon Gods part that your enemies have all this while taken Gods Name in vain and taken the Almighty to witnesse of the integrity of their intentions for Religion Law and Liberty thus perswading the world to beleeve a lye What shall I say of the Book of Sports and other prophanations of the Lords day This licentiousnesse was most acceptable to the greatest part and they e loved to have it so Doth not the great famine of the Word almost every where in the Kingdom except in this City make the Land mourn on the Sabbath and say f I do remember my faults this day Yea doth not the Land now enioy her Sabbaths while men are constrained not only to cease from sports on that day but from labouring the ground and from other works of their calling upon other dayes What should I speak of the lusts and uncleannesse gluttony and drunkennesse chambering and wantonnesse prodigality and lavishnesse excesse of riot masking and balling and sporting when Germany and the Palatinate and other places were wallowing in blood yea when there was so much sinne and wrath upon this same Kingdome Will not you say now that for this the Lord God hath caused g your sun to go down at noon and hath turned your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation Or what should I say of the oppressions injustice cousinage in trading and in Merchandise which your selves know better then I can do how much they have abounded in the Kingdome Doth not God now punish the secret injustice of his people by the open iniustice of their enemies Doe ye not remember that mischiefe was framed by a Law and now when your enemies execute mischief against Law will you not say Righteous art thou O Lord and iust are thy iudgements One thing I may not forget and that is that the Lord is punishing blood with blood the blood of the oppressed the blood of the persecuted the blood of those who have dyed in Prisons or in strange Countries suffering for righteousnesse sake h He that departed from evill did even make himselfe a prey There was not so much as one drop of blood spilt upon the Pillory for the testimony of the Truth but it cryeth to Heaven for precious is the blood of the Saints Doth not all the blood shed in Queen Maries dayes cry And doth not the blood of the Palatinate and of Rochel cry And doth not the blood of soules cry which is the loudest cry of all God said to Cain k The voyce of thy Brothers blood cryeth unto me from the ground the Hebrew hath it thy brothers blouds which is well expounded both by the Chaldee Paraphrase and the Jerusalem Targum the voyce of the blood of all the generations and the righteous people which thy Brother should have begotten cryeth unto me I may apply it to the thing in hand The silencing deposing persecuting imprisoning and banishing of so