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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33295	A sermon preached at a general meeting in the Gray-Friar-Church of Edinburgh, upon the 13 day of June, 1638 by that eminent, faithful, and zealous servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Andrew Cant ...	Cant, Andrew, 1590?-1663.	1699 (1699)	Wing C450; ESTC R34783	15,112	25

Well Willers wishing Grace unto the Work And seing I have ado with this great Mountain both with Mountains that impedes this Work and all Ranks of Persons Promovers of the Work I will direct my ●peech to these with the Apostrophe in the Text. And first To the Mountains lying in the way of this Reformation I rank them in two sorts to wit Prelats ●nd Upholders of Prelats O Prelats if I had hope to ●ome speed with you I would exhort you in the Name of Christ to lay down your Worldly Dignity and ●elp us to exalt the Kirk of Christ but I fear ye have hardened your selves so against the Truth that nothing will prevail with you except ye keep your Worldly Monarchy yet ye shall be forced to take up my Apostrophe O Mountains of Gilboa on whom the Anointed of the LORD is fallen neither come Dew nor Rain upon you ye are these Mountains upon whom Christ and his Anointed has been slain the Dew nor Rain of GOD's Grace are not on you ye may well receive Fatness from beneath to make you great in this World but from above ye are not Bedewed with the Grace of GOD without which whatever your Bodies be ye have lean Souls under this Course I leave you and turns to you O great Mountains great Men who are putting your Shoulders to hold up this Mountain of Prelacy I beseech you if ye have any Love to Christ to take your Shoulders and help from this Pestiferous Mountain the Wrack of Christ's Kirk and if Exhortance will not prevail with you I charge you in the Name of the great GOD and his Son Jesus Christ to whom one day ye must give your Account that ye in noways underprop this Mountain the which if ye obey I am sure the LORD will bless you and your Posterity but if ye will not though ye were never so high a Mountain in this Kingdom ye shall become a Plain I hear one saying Minister I am not afraid for all thou says my Mountain is strong enough and so said David Psal. 30. 6 7. I said I shall never be moved for thou hast made my mountain strong thou hides thy face and I was troubled I will tell you let your Mountain be never so strong if GOD hide his face once he will make the tallest Mountain of you tremble and if that move you not he will at last lay you waste I come to you whose hearts GOD hath touched to promove this Work in general Christ is saying to you that Word in Cant. 4. v. 8. Come with me from Lebanon my Spouse come with me from Lebanon look from the Top of Amana from the Top of Sheni● and Hermon from the Lions Dens and Mountains of Leopards Thou hast ravished my heart my Sister my Spouse thou hast ravished my Heart with one of thy Eyes Christ says this to you come from the Dens of Lions and Mountains of Leopards Lions are cruel and Leopards are crafty and cruel for it is reported of them that they set themselves in the thick Branches and spies the Passengers coming by and leaps between their Shoulders and kills them ye have been over long among the Lions Dens and the Mountains of Leopards and now ye are coming away this same look hath ravished the Heart of Christ ye have wounded him with this look ye have given to the Cause continue your help until the Spouse of Christ be forced from the Lions Dens and Mountains of Leopards In particular I speak to all Ranks of Persons O Noblemen who are the high Mountains of this Kingdom bow your Tops and look on the Kirk of Christ lying in the Valleys sighing groaning swounding and looking towards you with pitiful looks if the Sun of Righteousness have shined on you let her have a Shadow as ye would have GOD to be a Shadow to you in the Day of your Distress Barrons and Gentlemen who are as the pleasant Hills coming from the Mountains I speak to you for the Relation that is betwixt you and the Mountains for by your Descent ye are hewen out of the Mountains ●ny Heart is glad to see you lift your Tops as the Palms of your Hands reached to the Mountains that they and ye may be as a Shelter for the Kirk of Christ I pray you separat not your Hands from theirs till our Work be brought forth with Shouting Burrows who are as the Valleys whom GOD hath blessed with the Fatness of the Earth and the Merchandise of the Sea the Mountains and Hills are looking to you and ye to them join your selves in an unseparable Union and compass the Vineyard of Christ be to her a Wall of Defence lest the wild Beasts of the Wood waste it and the wild Beasts of the Forrest devour it Psal. 80. 13. Ministers and my Faithful Brethren in Christ whose Feet are beautiful upon the Mountains say unto Zion behold thy GOD cometh I tell you within thir two years an Honest Mans Feet were not beautiful upon the Caulsey of Edinburgh we might have gone Home to our Houses again and shaken the Dust off our Feet for a Conviction against this Unthankful Generation but now GOD be praised they are beautiful and we are comely in their Eyes not for any thing in us for we lay all down at the Feet of Christ but because we are gone up upon Mount Sion and as the LORD's Messengers have cryed behold thy GOD cometh I pray you if ye have any Love to the Kirk of Christ withdraw both your Tongues and Pens from this Mountain and apply them against it apply your Wits Engines Spirits and all your Strength to bear down this Mountain yea tread upon it and use the sharp Threshing Instruments which GOD hath put into your Hands and thresh upon that Mountain till be beaten small ●s the Chaff Shall I pass you who are Commons truly my Delight hath not been so great upon this Mountain as to make me overlook you my good People beloved in Christ have ye nothing to contribute for this Work have ye not so much Power as the Mountains and Hills have or have ye not such Substance as the Valleys yet something ye have give it and it will be acceptable something against the Mountain and something for the Work if ye have no more against the Mountain let me have your Tears Prayers and strong Cryes I am sure there is as great Value in them as in the Rams Horns that blew down Iericho send up your Prayers and cry with the Psalmist in the 144 Psal. v. 5. Bow thy Heavens O LORD and come down touch the Mountains and they shall smoak cast for t Lightening and scatter them shoot out thine Arrows and destroy them send thine Hand from above and deliver me out of the great Waters from the hand of strange Children whose Mouth speaketh Vanity their right Hand is a right Hand of Falshood As ye have your Tears and Prayers against this Mountain lend me also what ye have for the going up of this Work if ye have no more let us have your Shouts and hearty Crying Grace Grace be unto it Time will not suffer me to speak any more yet time shall never bereave you nor me neither of this let us all resolve so long as our Life is in even to the last Gasp as GOD will help us that this shall be out last Cry Grace Grace be unto this Work of Reformation in the Kirk of Scotland To this Grace I recommend you and closes with that Wish of the Apostles in the New Testament The Grace of GOD be with you all Amen FINIS