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Israels prayer in time of trouble with Gods gracious answer thereunto, or, An explication…
Israels prayer in time of trouble with Gods gracious answer thereunto, or, An explication of the 14th chapter of the Prophet Hosea in seven sermons preached upon so many days of solemn humiliation / by Edward Reynolds ...
London: printed by Thomas Newcomb for Robert Bostock, 1649
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Who more sure of the grace of God then the Apostle Paul, who gloried of it as that that made him what he was, By the grace of God I am that I am; who knew that Gods grace was sufficient for him; and that nothing could separate him •rom the love of Christ; who knew whom he had believed, ⟨p. 95⟩and that the grace of the Lord was exceeding abundant towards him? and yet who more tender and fearful of sin? who more set against corruption? more abundant in duty? more pressing unto perfection, then he? This is the nature of grace to animate and actuate the faculties of the soul in Gods service, to ratify our Covenants, and to enable us to perform them.
Who more sure of the grace of God then the Apostle Paul, who gloried of it as that that made him what he was, By the grace of God I am that I am; who knew that Gods grace was sufficient for him; and that nothing could separate him •rom the love of Christ; who knew whom he had beleeved, ⟨p. 95⟩and that the grace of the Lord was exceeding abundant towards him? and yet who more tender and fearfull of sin? who more set against corruption? more abundant in duty? more pressing unto p•rfection, then he? This is the nature of grace to ammate and actuate the faculties of the soul in Gods service, to ratifie our Covenants, and to enable us to perform them.
Fourthly,1 As it is singular comfort to the servants of God, That their own wills and purposes are in Gods keeping, and so they cannot ruin themselves: so is it also, That all other mens wills and resolutions are in Gods keeping too, so that they shall not be able to purpose or resolve on any evil against the Church, without leave from him. So then first, when the rage and passions of men break out, Tribe divided against Tribe, brother against brother, father against child, head against body; when the band of Unity which was wont to knit together this flourishing Kingdom, is broken like the Prophets staff, and therewithal the Beauty of the Nation miserably withered and decayed (for these two go still together, Beauty and Bands,