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order_n	church_n	place_n	power_n	2,519	5	4.8983	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90725	The duty & honour of church-restorers: set forth in a sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons, Septemb. 30. 1646. Being the day of the monethly solemne fast, at Margarets Westminster. / By Herbert Palmer, B.D. minister of Gods Word at Ashwell in Hertfordshire, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Palmer, Herbert, 1601-1647.	1646 (1646)	Wing P230; Thomason E355_22; ESTC R201122	56,005	70

with successe is a great mercy The Text as we have seen in the beginning is a promise of the Churches restauration and it is expressed as an encouragement to the forementioned duties and the right performers of them as a reward of mercy to them so that the Doctrine is beyond question clearly within the scope of the text and grounded upon it And in the handling of it I shall endeavour three things Terms explained 1. By way of explication to open both the generall sense of the Promise and the particular phrases in it 2. To lay down the generall grounds and Reasons of the Point 3. To annexe some speciall Reasons in relation to the severall Phrases The generall sense of the Churches restauration The Charches Restauration is the procuring of good to it when it lies under some calamity To supply what is wanting to it and remedy what is amisse in it and that in some way which may be for Continuance For all the Phrases of Building and Repairing breaches c. apparantly point at Continuance Now this is specially effected by making Laws and Orders for the Churches behoof and the discourse of it most properly looks at those that have that power in their hands though others also in their ranks and conditions may do somewhat toward it Now for the particular phrases The ● is Building Building the old waste places Building is the most comprehensive word in the Text and plainly includes raising up Foundations in the 2. phrase and repairing the Breach in the 3. And in Nature implies Ioyning together materials to make room for habitation commodious and safe But in a Metaphorical sense relating to the Church or State it signifies actually setling Things and Persons together in such an order as may be for common safety and conveniencie As namely in the Church It concerns the Establishment of Doctrine worship and Government in such a way as may unite Christians to Christ and one to another most firmly to receive mutuall strength and help one from another for their mutuall increase in all good and security against all commor enemies and mischiefs This in generall is to Build the Church And in all this work as in all Buildings and namely in the Building of the Temple and of the wals of Hierusalem there are divers forts of persons imployed in it 1. Some whose hand is in the setling of all the glorious things that concern the Churches edification principally or only by way of command So Solomon in his time is said to build the Temple though his hand wrought not about it Such are said to build because by their authority and through their care and oversight others are set awark about it 2. Some are properly Work-men as Hyram and others about Solomous temple and Bezaleel and Aholiab and others about the tabernacle in the wildernesse they did the work in their own persons and with their own hands having skill in it and it being their proper profession and office 3. Others afford only private help as Labourers and bearers of burdens and of this sort also there were divers that were imployed in the building of Solomons temple and so it may be in their proportion in all buildings that concern the Church and State there are some chief commanders others speciall workmen and others that afford only private help As for the old waste places The old waste places they properly signifie places where formerly or at least in the memory of man there hath not been any building but altogether desolation and voyd and empty spaces and so to build those old waste places is to settle those things which former Ages have not done or not of a long time as also to settle them as for instance the Preaching of the Gospel in such places where they have not been of late dayes if ever at all And this is the first Phrase The 2. is To raise up the foundations of many generations Raising up the foundations of many generations which fignifies the going on with that which former generations had some maning to do or perhaps made some beginning in laid some foundation but could not or did not finish the effecting that which others wished to have setled and established but were hindred in and so left it to their successors who accordingly bring it to passe The 3. is To repair the Breach Repairing the breach which intends to make up what the injury and violence of others have broken down and procure again that good unto the Church that safety and conveniencie which it did enjoy formerly untill the mischief of men interrupted it but now amends is made for that mischief and things setled again as they were formerly in their strength and beauty The 4. and last is To restore paths to dwell in Restoring paths to dwell in which imports both resuming what through former discouragements and dangers hath been disused as wayes and paths are when they grow unsafe by any means and also to bring back and restore and encourage such persons who have been driven away from their habitations and imployments through fear and the generall hazard such were in although they were not particularly assaulted with any violence And this is the summe and substance of these Phrases Whereunto it will be convenient to add a word or two of the circumstances of them and the expressions about them First as they are all exprest by way of promise as it is most apparent so also do they all imply a duty and endeavour as well as successe and successe upon endeavour and the performance of duty 2. The first of them is set down in a plural phrase They that shall be of them implying some choise persons whom God would raise up from among those that did so religiously Fast unto him as hath been mentioned and whom he would specially set on work about this building the other three are in phrases of the singular Number like the Law Thou which speaks of all and to all severally to urge them to do their duty and encourage them with promise of successe 3. The two first phrases do chiefly imply Endeavour and Blessing in building the old waste places and raising up the foundations of many generations and the two latter Honour together with blessing upon endeavour Thou shalt be called the repairer of the breach and thou shalt be called the restorer of paths to dwell in although we are not to confine any of these meerly to those phrases but apply all to all which for variety sake and even for some speciall relation to the particular phrases as may be touched hereafterward they are thus particularly exprest as hath been noted Now these things being thus explained General Reasons The generall grounds why it is such a great mercy to be imployed in the Churches restauration with successe are briefly four First R. 1 it is Gods great work in the world why he even made the world