1 will drive them out of my house

I will drive them out of my house.

They shall remain no longer in a Church-State, they shall remain no longer so to be in my House.

Those who under the color of being under the Church of God, yet live in the ways of wickedness, God will unchurch them even in regard of the outward appearance of a Church estate. I'll drive them out of my House: it's a dreadful expression this, for a father to take his child or servant and drive them out of his house notes great indignation. To be driven out of God's House is a sore evil, that makes all other evils indeed to be evil, as abiding in God's House is a great blessing, and recompences the want of many outward blessings. If any of you that have been servants to great men, and should be driven out of their houses, and especially for your conscience, yet if God takes you into his House you are well enough, and for that you have a famous Scripture in (Psalms 52:8). But I (says David) am like a green Olive tree in the House of God, I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever. Upon what occasion was this Psalm penned? It was when David was driven out of the house of Saul by the occasion of Doeg, there was a Doeg that did exasperate Saul against him, and David was driven from his house, so he dared not come into it, but what comfort had David? But I am like a green Olive tree in the House of God; though I cannot be in Saul's house, and enjoy the privileges of his house, yet blessed be God that I may be in His House, and there thrive and prosper as a green Olive tree.