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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.
Sermon 1: The First SERMON UPON HOSEA, Chap. 14. Vers. 1, 2.
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 second part of the Institution was the particular form suggested unto them according unto which their addresses unto God are to be regulated, which consisteth of two parts, a prayer, and a promise. The prayer is for two Benefits, the one Remove all of sin, the other Conferring of Good. In the promise or Restipulation we have first their Covenant, wherein they promise two things. 1. Thanksgiving for the hearing and answering of their prayers. 2. A special care for the Amendment of their lives. Secondly, the Ground of their Confidence so to pray, and of their Resolutions so to promise, Because in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. My meditations will be confined within the first of these, The prayer of the Church in their fears and sufferings, wherein I shall begin, in the Prophets order, with their prayer against sin, Take away all iniquity.
The second part of the Institution was the particular form suggested unto them according unto which their addresses unto God are to be regulated, which consisteth of two parts, a prayer, and a promise. The prayer is for two Benefits, the one Remove all of sin, the other Conferring of Good. In the promise or Restipulation we have first their Covenant, wherein they promise two things. 1. Thanksgiving for the hearing and answering of their prayers. 2. A speciall care for the Amendment of their lives. Secondly, the Ground of their Confidence so to pray, and of their Resolutions so to promise, Because in thee the fatherlesse findeth mercy. My meditations will bee confined within the first of these, The prayer of the Church in their fears and sufferings, wherein I shall begin, in the Prophets order, with their prayer against sin, Take away all iniquitie.
The word signifies, 1. To expiate, and make atonement by a sacrifice. So the scape Goat (which was a sign of Christ our Sacrifice as risen and living again) is said to carry the sins of the People into the wilderness, Levit. 16.22. Thereby signifying Christs taking our sins from us, John 1.29.