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The churches triumph over death opened in a sermon preached Septemb. 11, 1660, at…The churches triumph over death opend in a sermon preached Septemb. 11, 1660, at…
The churches triumph over death opened in a sermon preached Septemb. 11, 1660, at the funeral of the most religious and virtuous lady, the Lady Mary Langham / by Edward Reynolds ...The churches triumph over death opend in a sermon preached Septemb. 11, 1660, at the funeral of the most religious and vertuous lady, the Lady Mary Langham / by Edward Reynolds ...
London: printed by Tho. Ratcliffe for John Baker, 1662
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The holy Prophet having in the foregoing Chapter set forth many gracious Evangelical promises, doth here in this celebrate them with a song of solemn and public thanksgiving, blessing the Lord for his ⟨p. 2⟩salvation to his Church, and his severity against the enemies thereof.
THe holy Prophet having in the foregoing Chapter set forth many gracious Evangelical promises, doth here in this celebrate them with a song of solemn and publick thanksgiving, blessing the Lord for his ⟨p. 2⟩salvation to his Church, and his severity against the enemies thereof.
Whereupon we find the Church entertaining many holy Resolutions, as fruits and expressions of that her joy. She resolves to trust in the Lord for ever, in regard of his strength and fidelity towards his people, and of his power and jealousy against their enemies, ver. 4, 5, 6, 7. She resolves to wait upon God in the midst of judgements, upon the remembrance of that Name of his, whereby he made himself known to his people in Egypt, Exod. 34 6, 7. as a God able to give being to every promise, and by his truth and power to perform what his mercy had covenanted to do for her, Micah 7. 20. ver. 8, 9, 12. And this confident waiting upon God in trouble is commended ab opposito by the contrary disposition of wicked men, whom favours and mercies cannot persuade to learn righteousness, ver. 10, 11. She resolves to submit to Gods fatherly Government alone, and to renounce all other usurping and tyrannical Lords, who had exercised domination over her, in regard of Gods judgements executed on them, and his mercies renewed to his people, v. 13, 14, 15. She resolves to pour out her prayer unto God in the midst of all present troubles, acknowledging her own impotency, and the miscarriage of all her own carnal counsels and contrivances, and thereupon trusting no longer in her self, but in God which raiseth the dead, ver. 16, 17, 18, 19. Lastly, after all these pious dispositions and noble resolves, she concludeth her song with a triumphal Epinicion