1645 JOHN WHINCOP. Westminster Assembly Divine Calls England, Ireland, and Scotland the "New Zion."

1645 JOHN WHINCOP. Westminster Assembly Divine Calls England, Ireland, and Scotland the "New Zion."

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A fascinating sermon preached before Cromwell's Parliament by a rather obscure member of the Westminster Assembly, John Whincop. He seems to have been an active and respected member of the Assembly [see Reid, Memoirs], but having died shortly hereafter in the throes of the English Civil War, his name was largely forgotten. His having been presented to preach on multiple Fast Days before parliament speaks to his respect in the community. The present sermon, very scarce on the market, is seen by many scholars of the period as perhaps the clearest example of the Presbyterian / Puritan ideal of England, Protestant Ireland, and Scotland as truly God's New Israel. It is transparent in the opening lines of the sermon, " . . . to remember Zion, was that for which at first this Monethly Fast was intended, our poore Protestant Brethren in Ireland, Gods little Remnant, his Zion there, this was the first end propounded for it: Afterwards our English Zion cryed aloud for prayers and tears too. And

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