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Self-denial opened and applied in a sermon before the Reverend Assembly of Divines on…Self-deniall opened and applyed in a sermon before the Reverend Assembly of Divines on…
Self-denial opened and applied in a sermon before the Reverend Assembly of Divines on a day of their private humiliation / by Edward Reynolds ...Self-deniall opened and applyed in a sermon before the Reverend Assembly of Divines on a day of their private humiliation / by Edward Reynolds ...
London: printed by T. Maxey for Robert Bostock, 1652
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.
For the King's Majesty, That God would fill his heart with this excellent grace, and with the love of the common welfare above all other respects or Interests, That he may bewail his poor people, as David did, What have these sheep done, that in a difference of mine they should suffer such bitter things? That God would mercifully preserve him from joining with the Enemies of pure Religion (to the endangering thereof) for the promoting of such ends, as those Enemies of God, even according to the principles and practices of their Religion, are much more likely in the conclusion to betray and destroy, then promote or preserve.
For the King's Majesty, That God would fill his heart with this excellent grace, and with the love of the common welfare above all other respects or Interests, That he may bewail his poor people, as David did, What have these sheep done, that in a difference of mine they should suffer such bitter things? That God would mercifully preserve him from joyning with the Enemies of pure Religion (to the endangering thereof) for the promoting of such ends, as those Enemies of God, even according to the principles and practices of their Religion, are much more likely in the conclusion to betray and destroy, then promote or preserve.
For the Parliament, That God would double ⟨p. 32⟩upon them the Spirit of Self-Denial; that as they have denied themselves, their ease, pleasures, estates, and have indefatigably wrestled with mountainous difficulties to vindicate public liberty and reformation: so God would keep it always in the imaginations and resolutions of their hearts, to seek the wealth of the people; and as Mordecai did, to speak peace unto them, and to their seed, Ester 10. 3. That God would cause them still to speak comfortably unto the Levites, who teach the good knowledge of the Lord; and to command them to carry forth all filthiness out of the holy place, as good Hezekiah did,