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The misery of a deserted people opened in a sermon preached at Pauls before…
The misery of a deserted people opened in a sermon preached at Pauls before the Lord Major, aldermen, and Common-Council, Decemb. 2, 1659, being a day of solemn humiliation by them appointed / by Edward Reynolds ...The misery of a deserted people opened in a sermon preached at Pauls before the Lord Major, aldermen, and Common-Councel, Decemb. 2, 1659, being a day of solemn humiliation by them appointed / by Edward Reynolds ...
London: printed by Tho. Ratcliffe for George Thomason, 1659
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.
1. Manifestation of himself, and of the secrets of his love and counsel to the Church, John 14 21. he shows unto a soul the salvation of God, Psal. 50. 23. comes and sups with it, Rev. 3. 20. brings it into the banqueting house, Cant. 2. 4. unto a feast of fatted things. The Ordinances make the Church an Eden, a Paradise, no tree of life, nor means of salvation out of that garden.
1. Manifestation of himself, and of the secrets of his love and counsel to the Church, John 14 21. he shews unto a soul the salvation of God, Psal. 50. 23. comes and sups with it, Rev. 3. 20. brings it into the banquetting house, Cant. 2. 4. unto a feast of fatted things. The Ordinances make the Church an Eden, a Paradise, no tree of life, nor meanes of salvation out of that garden.
2. Cohabitation and gracious converse with the souls of men, having his abode in them, John 14. 23. It is a rich mercy, as Galeacius said, to have but one hours communion with God; but when he dwells in his Church, as in settled place, 1 Reg. 8. 13. Psal. 68. 16. and makes a soul or people his Temple, this is truly the glory of such a soul or people,