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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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If Christ then be our Lord we must trust in him, and depend upon him for all our present subsistence, and our future expectations. For he never faileth those that wait upon him. He that believeth in him shall not be ashamed. And indeed faith is necessary to call Christ Lord. No man can call Jesus Lord but by the Spirit. Because ⟨p. 20⟩other Lords are present with us, they do with their own eye oversee, and by their own visible power order and direct us in their service. But Christ is absent from our senses; Though I have known Christ after the flesh, yet henceforth (saith the Apostle) know I him no more. Therefore to fear, and honour, and serve him with all fidelity, to yield more absolute and universal obedience to his commands, though absent, though tendered unto us by the Ministry of mean and despicable persons, than to the threats, and Sceptres of the greatest Princes, to labour that not only present, but absent we may be accepted of him, to do his hardest works of self-denial, of overcoming, and rejecting the assaults of the World, of standing out against principalities, & powers, and spiritual wickedness, of suffering and dying in his service, needs must there be faith in the hart to see him present by his Spirit, to set to our seal to the truth, authority, and Majesty of all his commands, to hear the Lord speaking from heaven, and to find by the secret and powerful revelations of his Spirit out of the word to the soul, evident and invincible proofs of his living by the power of God, and speaking mightily in the Ministry of his Word to our consciences. Therefore when the Apostle had said, We are absent from the Lord, he presently adds, We walk by faith, That is, we labour to yield all service and obedience to this our Lord, though absent, because by faith (which giveth presence to things unseen, and subsistence to things that are yet but hoped) we know that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him.
If Christ then be our Lord wee must trust in him, and depend upon him for all our present subsistence, and our future expectations. For he never faileth those that wait upon him. He that beleeveth in him shall not bee ashamed. And indeed faith is necessary to call Christ Lord. No man can call Iesus Lord but by the Spirit. Because ⟨p. 20⟩other Lords are present with us, they doe with their own eye oversee, and by their owne visible power order and direct us in their service. But Christ is absent from our senses; Though I have knowne Christ after the flesh, yet henceforth (saith the Apostle) know I him no more. Therefore to feare, and honor, and serve him with all fidelity, to yeeld more absolute and universall obedience to his commands, though absent, though tenderd unto us by the Ministerie of meane and despicable persons, than to the threates, and Scepters of the greatest Princes, to labour that not only present, but absent we may bee accepted of him, to doe his hardest workes of selfe-deniall, of overcomming, and rejecting the assaults of the World, of standing out against principalities, & powers, and spirituall wickednes, of suffering and dying in his service, needs must there bee faith in the hart to see him present by his Spirit, to set to our seale to the truth, authoritie, and Majesty of all his commands, to heare the Lord speaking from heaven, and to finde by the secret and powerfull revelations of his Spirit out of the word to the soule, evident and invincible proofes of his living by the power of God, and speaking mightily in the Ministery of his Word to our consciences. Therefore when the Apostle had said, Wee are absent from the Lord, hee presently addes, We walk by faith, That is, we labor to yeeld all service and obedience to this our Lord, though absent, because by faith (which giveth presence to things unseen, and subsistence to things that are yet but hoped) wee know that hee is, and that hee is a rewarder of those that diligently seeke him.