A10650:117
An explication of the hundred and tenth Psalm wherein the several heads of Christian…An explication of the hundreth and tenth Psalme wherein the severall heads of Christian…
An explication of the hundred and tenth Psalm wherein the several heads of Christian religion therein contained; touching the exaltation of Christ, the sceptre of his kingdom, the character of his subjects, his priesthood, victories, sufferings, and resurrection, are largely explained and applied. Being the substance of several sermons preached at Lincolns Inn; by Edward Reynolds sometimes fellow of Merton College in Oxford, late preacher to the foresaid honourable society, and rector of the church of Braunston in Northampton-shire.An explication of the hundreth and tenth Psalme wherein the severall heads of Christian religion therein contained; touching the exaltation of Christ, the scepter of his kingdome, the character of his subjects, his priesthood, victories, sufferings, and resurrection, are largely explained and applied. Being the substance of severall sermons preached at Lincolns Inne; by Edward Reynoldes sometimes fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford, late preacher to the foresaid honorable society, and rector of the church of Braunston in Northhampton-shire.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Robert Bostocke, 1632
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Fourthly, something like love there may be in natural men unto Christ, grounded upon the historical assurance and persuasion of his being now in glory, attended by mighty Angels, filled with all the treasures of wisdom, knowledge, grace, power, and other excellent ⟨p. 67⟩attributes, which can attract love even from an enemy; and that he hath and still doth procure such good things for mankind, in their deliverance from the guilt of sin, and from the wrath to come, as of which, might they but have an exemption from his spiritual government, and a dispensation to live according to their own lusts still, no man should be more greedily desirous. As Sampson met the Lion as an enemy, when he was alive, but after he was slain, he went unto him as to a table; there was only terror while he lived, but honey when he was dead: so doubtless many men, to whom the bodily presence of Christ, and the mighty power and penetration of his heavenly preaching, whereby he smote sinners unto the ground, and spake with such authority as never man spake, would have been unsufferably irksome, and full of terror (as it was unto the Scribes and Pharisees) can yet, now that he is out of their sight, and doth not in person, but only by those who are his witnesses torment the inhabitants of the earth, pretend much admiration, and thankful remembrance of that death of his, which was so full of honey for all that come unto him;1 for as particular dependencies and expectations may make a man flatter and adore the greatness of some living Potentate, whose very image notwithstanding the same man doth professedly abominate in other tyrants of the world who are dead, or upon whom he hath not the same ends: so the self-same reason may make men in hypocritical expressions flatter & fawn upon Christ himself who is absent, and yet hate with a perfect hatred the very image of his Spirit, in the power of his Word, and in the lives of his people. The very Scribes and Pharisees, who blasphemed his Spirit, and contrived his death, could yet be contented to be gainers thereby; for see they confess, It is expedient for us that one die for the people.
Fourthly, something like love there may be in naturall men unto Christ, grounded upon the historicall assurance and perswasion of his being now in glory, attended by mightie Angels, filled with all the treasures of wisdome, knowledge, grace, power, and other excellent ⟨p. 67⟩