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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

the Governuor will he bee pleased with thee or accept thy person Will thy Governour nay thy neighbour who is as thou art after an injury done to him bee pleased with thee if thou doe but leave off to doe him any more such injuries VVill he not expect an acknowledgement of the wrong done Is it not t Christs rule that he who seven times trespasseth against his brother seven times turne again saying I repent u David would hardly trust Ittai to goe up and downe with him who was but a stranger how much more if hee had done him some great wrong and then refused to confesse it And how shall wee think that it can stand with the honour of the most high God that wee seem to draw neare unto him and to walk in his wayes while in the mean time we do not acknowledge our iniquitie and even accuse shame judge and condemne our selves Nay x be not deceived God is not mocked This is the first necessity of the duty which this Text holdeth forth The Lord requireth of us not onely to doe his will for the future but to be ashamed for what we have done amisse before The other necessity of it which is also in the Text is this that except we be thus ashamed and humbled God hath not promised to shew us the pattern of his house nor to reveale his will unto us Which agreeth well with that Psal. 25. 9. The meek will he teach his way and vers. 12. What man is he that feareth the Lord him shall he teach in the way that he shall chuse and vers. 14. The secret of the Lord is with them that feare him and hee will shew them his Covenant There is sanctification in the affections and here is humiliation in the affections spoken of as necessary means of attaining the knowledge of the will of God Let the affections be ordered aright then light which is offered shall be seen and received but let light be offered when disordered affections doe overcloud the eye of the minde then all is in vaine In this case a man shall be y like the deaf Adder which will not be taken by the voice of the charmers charming never so wisely Let the helme of reason be stirred as well as you can imagine if there be a contrary winde in the sailes of the affections the ship will not answere to the helme It is a good argument hee is a wicked man a covetous man a proud man a carnall man an unhumbled man Ergo he will readily miscarry in his judgement So Divines have argued against the Popes infallibility The Pope hath been and may be a profane man Ergo he may erre in his judgement and decrees And what wonder that they who receive not the love of the truth be given over z to strong delusion that they should beleeve a lie It is as good an argument Hee is a humbled man and a man that feareth God Ergo in so far as he acteth and exerciseth those graces the Lord shall teach him in the way that he shall choose I say in so farre as he acteth those graces because when he grieves the spirit and cherisheth the flesh when the child of God is more swayed by his corruptions then by his graces then he is in great danger to be given up to the counsell of his own heart and to be deserted by a the holy Ghost which should leade him into all truth But we must take notice of a seeming contradiction here in the Text God saith to the Prophet in the former verse Shew the house to the house of Israel that they may be ashamed of their iniquities And Jerem. 31. 19. Ephraim is first instructed then ashamed And here it is quite turned over in my Text If they be ashamed shew them the House I shall not here make any digression unto the debates and distinctions of School-men what influence and power the affections have upon the understanding and the will I will content my self with this plain answer Those two might very well stand together light is a help to humiliation and humiliation a help to light As there must be some work of faith and some apprehension of the Love of God in order before true Evangelicall repentance yet this repentance helpeth us to beleeve more firmly that our sinnes are forgiven The soul in the pains of the new birth is like b Tamar travelling of her twins Pharez and Zarah faith like Zarah first putting out his hand but hath no strength to come forth therefore draweth backe the hand againe till repentance like Pharez have broken forth then can faith come forth more easily Which appeareth in that woman Luke 7. 47 48. shee wept much because she loved much she loved much because shee beleeved and by faith had her heart enlarged with apprehending the rich grace and free love of Christ to poore sinners this faith moves her bowells melts her heart stirres her sorrow kindles her affection Then and not till then she gets a prop to her faith and a sure ground to build upon It is not till shee have wept much that Christ intimates mercy and saith Thy sins are forgiven thee Just so is the case in this Text Shew them the House saith the Lord that they may be ashamed Give them a view of it that they may think the worse of themselves that they want it that they may be ashamed for all their iniquities whereby they have separate betwixt their God and themselves so that they can not c behold the beauty of the Lord nor enquire in his Temple And if when they begin to see it they have such thoughts as these and humble themselves and acknowledge their iniquities then goe to and shew them the whole Fabrick and Structure and all the gates thereof and all the parts thereof and all things pertaining thereto I suppose I have said enough for confirmation and cleering of the Doctrine concerning the necessitie of our being ashamed and confounded before the Lord I have now a fourefold application to draw from it The first application shall be to the malignant enemies of the Cause and People of God at this time who deserve Jeremiahs black mark to be put upon them d Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination nay they were not at all ashamed neither could they blush When he would say the worst of them this is it e Thou hadst a whores forehead thou refusedst to be ashamed There are some sonnes of Belial risen up against us who have done some things whereof I dare say many Heathens would have been ashamed yet they are as farre from being ashamed of their outrages as Caligula was who said of himself that he loved nothing better in his own nature then that hee could not be ashamed nay f their glory is their shame and if the Lord doe not open their eyes to see their shame their end will

many of the Lords VVitnesses of the most painfull and powerfull Preachers and the preferring of so many either dumbe dogges or false Teachers maketh the voice of bloods to cry to heaven even the blood of many thousands yea thousands of thousand soules which have been lost by the one or might have been saved by the other God will require the blood of the children which those righteous Abels might have begotten unto him There is beside all this more Blood-guiltinesse which is secret but shall sometime be brought to light O Blood blood O let the Land tremble while the Righteous Judge l makes inquisition for blood O let England cry m Deliver me from blood-guiltinesse O God But you will say peradventure Many of these things whereof I have spoken ought not to be charged upon the Kingdome they were onely the acts of a prevalent Faction for the time I Answer First God will impute them to the Kingdome unlesse the Kingdome mourne for them n God gives not a charge to the destroying Angel to spare those who have not been Actors in the publike sinnes and abominations but to spare those onely who cry and sigh for those abominations Secondly VVhen the Ministers of State or others having authority in Church or Common-wealth take the boldnesse to doe such acts the Kingdome is not blamelesse for they durst not have done as they did had the Land but disclaimed discountenanced and cryed out against them It is marked both o of John Baptist and p of Christ and q of the Apostles that so long as the people did magnifie them and esteeme them highly their enemies durst not doe unto them what else they would have done A third consideration concerning the Kingdome is this Notwithstanding of all the happinesse and Gospell blessings which it hath wanted in so great a measure and notwithstanding of all the sinnes which have so much abounded in it r yet the servants of God have charged it with great presumption that the Church of England hath said s with the Church of Laodicea I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing It hath bin proud of its Clergy learning great revenues peace plenty wealth and abundance of all things And as the Apostle t chargeth the Corinthians yee are puffed up and have not rather mourned that the wicked ones might be taken away from among you And would God this presumption had taken an end when God did begin to afflict the Land It did even make an Idoll of this Parliament and trusted to its owne strength and Armies which hath provoked God so much that he hath sometimes almost blasted your hopes that way and hath made you to feele your weaknesse even where you thought your selves strongest God would not have England say u Mine owne hand hath saved me Neither will he have Scotland to say My hand hath done it But he wil have both to say His hand hath done it when we were lost in our own eyes God grant that your leaning so much upon the arme of flesh bee not the cause of more blowes God must be seen in the worke and he will have us to give him all the glorie and to say x Thou hast wrought all our works for us O that all our presumption may be repented of and that the land may be yet more deeply humbled Assuredly God will arise and subdue our enemies and command deliverances for Jacob but it is as certaine God will not doe this till we be more humbled and as the Text saith ashamed of all that we have done Fourthly there is another Motive more Evangelicall let England be humbled even for the mercy the most admirable mercy which God hath shewed upon so undeserving and evill deserving a Kingdome See it in this same Prophecy y I will establish my Covenant with thee and thou shalt know that I am the Lord That thou maist remember and bee confounded and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done saith the Lord God And z again Not for your sakes doe I this saith the Lord God be it knoun unto you be ashamed and confounded for your owne wayes O house of Israel O my God a saith Ezra I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee And what was it that did so confound him you may find it in that which followeth God had shewed them mercy and had left them a remnant to escape and had given them a naile in his holy place and had lightned their eyes And now b saith he O our God what shall we say after this for we have forsaken thy Commandements Let us this day compare as he did Gods goodnesse and our own guiltinesse England deserved nothing but to get a bill of divorce and that God should have said in his wrath Away from me I have no pleasure in you but now hee hath received you into the bond of his Covenant he rejoyceth over you to doe you good and to dwell among you his Banner over you is love O let our hard hearts be overcome and be confounded with so much mercy and let us be ashamed of our selves that after so much mercy we should be yet in our sinnes and trespasses There is a third application which I intend for the Ministerie who ought to goe before the people of God in the example of Repe●…tance and humiliation You know the old observation Rarò vidi Clericum poenitentem I have seldome seen a Clergie man penitent As Christ c saith of rich men I may say of learned men it is easier for a Camell to goe through the eye of a needle then for a man that trusts in his Learning to enter into the Kingdome of heaven He will needs maintaine the lawfulnesse of all which he hath done and will not bee as this Text would have him ashamed of all that hee hath done Yet it is not impossible with God to make such a one deny himselfe and that d whatsoever in him exalts it selfe against Christ should bee brought in captivity to the obedience of Christ Among all that were converted by the Ministerie of the Apostles I wonder most at the conversion of a great company of Priests Acts 6. 7. I doe not suspect as e two learned men have done that the Text is corrupted in that place and that it should be otherwise read I am the rather satisfied because there is nothing there mentioned of the Conversion of the high Priest or of the chiefe Priests the heads of the four and twenty Orders which were upon the Councell and had condemned Christ the place cannot be understood but of a multitude of common or inferiour Priests Even as by proportion in Hezekiah's Reformation f the Levites were more upright in heart than the Priests And now many of the Inferiour Clergie