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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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In consideration of all which, & for that I have formerly discovered the Insufficiency of any either inward, or outward principle of mans happiness, save only the Life of Christ, I have chosen to speak upon this Psalm, and out of it to discover those ways, whereby the Life of Christ is dispensed & administered towards his Church. For this Psalm is one of the clearest and most compendious prophesies of the Person and Offices of Christ in the whole Old Testament, and so full of fundamental truth, that I shall not shun to call it Symbolum Davidicum, the Prophet Davids Creed. And indeed there are very few, if any, of the Articles of that Creed, which we all generally profess, which are not either plainly expressed, or by most evident implication couched in this little model. First, the Doctrine of the Trinity is in the first words; The Lord said unto my Lord. There is Jehovah the Father, and My Lord, the Son, and the ⟨p. 4⟩sanctification or consecration of him, which was by the Holy Ghost; by whose fullness he was anointed unto the Offices of King and Priest, for so our Saviour himself expounds this word Said, by the sealing & sanctification of him to his office, Joh. 10.34, 35, 36. Then we have the Incarnation of Christ, in the word, My Lord, together with his dignity and honour above David (as our Saviour himself expounds it, Matth. 22.42.45.) Mine, that is, my Son by descent and genealogy after the flesh, and yet my Lord too, in regard of a higher sonship. We have also the Sufferings of Christ, in that he was consecrated a Priest, v. 4. to offer up himself once for all, and so to drink of the brook in the way. We have his Eluctation and conquest over all his enemies, and sufferings, his resurrection, he shall lift up his head, his Ascension and Intercession, sit thou on my right hand. And in that is comprised his Descent into Hell by S. Pauls way of arguing, That he ascended, what is it but that he descended first into the lower parts of the earth? Eph. 4.9. We have a Holy Catholic Church, gathered together by the Sceptre of his Kingdom, and holding in the parts thereof a blessed, and beautiful Communion of Saints, The Lord shall send forth the Rod of thy strength out of Zion; Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.