A57160:13
A sermon preached in St. Paul's before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor
A sermon preached in St. Paul's before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor by Dr. Edward Reynolds, late Lord Bishop of Norwich.
London: printed by J.M. for John Martyn, 1678
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.
A SERMON Preached in St. Pauls, before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor.
Micah Chap. 6. Ver. 6, 7, 8. 6. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow my self before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old? 7. Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8. He hath showed thee O man what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee▪ but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.
Micah Chap. 6. Ver. 6, 7, 8. 6. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow my self before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old? 7. Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8. He hath shewed thee O man what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee▪ but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.
IN the beginning of this Chapter we find mention of a controversy between God the Plaintiff, and his People the Delinquent. The action, an action of unkindness and ingratitude after two great deliverances; from the tyranny of Pharaoh in Egypt, from the subtlety of Balaam in Moab. And this is an high aggravation of injury when it is done by a friend, the Philosopher tells us, Rhet. lib. 1. [Greek or Hebrew], you know was the deepest wound that Caesar felt; and Moses is at the self same figure, Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people, and