A57160:27
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.
If you dare not come to God without a first-born, go not to thy self for one. Thine is like thy self, sinful and unclean; but take him in thy arms who is the first-born of every creature. There is none but [Greek or Hebrew], one child-bearing which can save thee, 1 Tim. 2. 15.
If you dare not come to God without a first-born, go not to thy self for one. Thine is like thy self, sinful and unclean; but take him in thy arms who is the first-born of every creature. There is none but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, one child-bearing which can save thee, 1 Tim. 2. 15.
You see which way the words look and what they intend, and that you may see it yet more clearly, let us take them in sunder, and consider in them these two general parts.
An anxious and solicitous inquiry of counsel. Hypocrites seek how to be at peace with an offended God. A full and solid answer of the Prophet to that enquiry.