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The rich mans charge delivered in a sermon at the Spittle upon Monday in…The rich mans charge delivered in a sermon at the Spittle vpon Monday in…
The rich mans charge delivered in a sermon at the Spittle upon Monday in Easter week, 12 April 1658, before the lord major, &c., by Edw. Reynolds.The rich mans charge delivered in a sermon at the Spittle vpon Monday in Easter week, 12 April 1658, before the lord major, &c., by Edw. Reynolds.
London: printed by Tho. Newcomb for George Thomason, 1658
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.
There is a Majesty and Power in the Word of Christ, when set on with his Spirit, who spake [Greek or Hebrew], as one having Authority, Matth. 7. 29. and regarded not the persons of men; which no power, wealth, or greatness, can be a fortification against. It is as a Two-edged sword, 1sharp in the hearts of Christs enemies, able to break Rocks, to tear Cedars, to pull down strong holds, to smite the heart, to stop the mouth, to humble an Ahab, to shake a Felix, to awe an Herod: It is the arm of the Lord, which can sling a stone into the Conscience of the stoutest sinner, and make it sink like Goliath to the ground: It can so shake a man with conviction of guilt and prepossession of wrath, that he shall go in Sackcloth and Ashes, weeping and mourning, roaring and rending of himself, till his Soul draw nigh to the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
There is a Majesty and Power in the Word of Christ, when set on with his Spirit, who spake 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, as one having Authority, Matth. 7. 29. and regarded not the persons of men; which no power, wealth, or greatness, can be a fortification against. It is as a Two-edged sword, 1sharp in the hearts of Christs enemies, able to break Rocks, to tear Cedars, to pull down strong holds, to smite the heart, to stop the mouth, to humble an Ahab, to shake a Felix, to aw an Herod: It is the arm of the Lord, which can sling a stone into the Conscience of the stoutest sinner, and make it sink like Goliah to the ground: It can so shake a man with conviction of guilt and prepossession of wrath, that he shall go in Sackcloth and Ashes, weeping and mourning, roaring and rending of himself, till his Soul draw nigh to the grave, and his life to the destroyers.