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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.
To the Right Honourable Sir RICHARD CHIVERTON Lord Major of the City of London, and the Honourable Court of Aldermen.
To the Right Honorable Sir RICHARD CHIVERTON Lord Major of the City of London, and the Honorable Court of Aldermen.
Right Honourable,
Right Honorable,
IT is truly resolved by Learned men, aThat Theology is not a bare Speculative Science, which ultimately terminateth and stoppeth in the understanding, but that it is a Doctrine ordered and directed unto Practice, prescribing not only the bknowledge of Spiritual Truth, but the cdoing and loving of Spiritual Good. The Apostle calleth it the dacknowledgement of the Truth which is after Godliness; The Learning of Christ, and of the Truth as it is in Jesus. As light and heat, lustre, motion, and influence, are united in the Sun, the one working with and by the other; so Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge are joined with fullness of ⟨image 3⟩Grace and Holiness, in the Sun of Righteousness, whose Wings have healing in them. The Doctrine of Religion is like the eProphets Vision of Cherubims, where he saw Wheels full of Eyes; the one for Vision, the other for Motion; and Hands under Wings; these to soar in contemplation, those to be employed in Action; and Lamps, and Burning Coals of Fire; the one for light, the other for heat.