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Preaching of Christ opened in a sermon preached at St. Peters Church in the…
Preaching of Christ opened in a sermon preached at St. Peters Church in the city of Norwich at an ordination Septemb. 22, 1661 / by Edward Reynolds ...
London: printed by Tho. Ratcliffe for George Thomason, 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.
II. We preach Christ Jesus the Lord, as the Matter and substance of our preaching; there is not any matter of preaching, which doth not either explicit or reductive comprise Christ in it. We preach Christ crucified, 1 Cor. 1. 23. I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified, 1 Cor. 2. 2.
II. We preach Christ Jesus the Lord, as the Matter and substance of our preaching; there is not any matter of preaching, which doth not either explicite or reductive comprise Christ in it. We preach Christ crucified, 1 Cor. 1. 23. I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified, 1 Cor. 2. 2.
All materials of Religion are contained under four heads, Agenda, Credenda, Petenda, Participanda, duties to be done, mysteries to be believed, mercies to be implored, seals to be imparted.
1. Of the Agenda, the Law is the Rule, and this is a Schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, Gal. 3. 24. Consider it as Covenant ⟨p. 34⟩of Life,, and so it sends us unto Christ, by whose only obedience the Righteousness thereof hath been fulfilled for us, I am not come to destroy the Law, but to fulfil it,