A57167:52
The substance of two sermons one touching composing of controversies, another touching unity of…
The substance of two sermons one touching composing of controversies, another touching unity of judgement and love amongst brethren : preached in two honourable conventions of parliament : the former, Jan. 27, 1657, the other, Feb. 4, 1658 / by Edward Reynolds ...
London: printed by Tho. Ratcliffe for George Thomason, 1659
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2. To attend on the Ordinances which open the Scripture unto us, the Ministry which Christ hath erected for this very purpose to perfect the Saints, and to bring them by the unity of the Faith, and knowledge of the Son of God unto a full stature, Ephes. 4. 12, 13.
2. To attend on the Ordinances which open the Scripture unto us, the Ministery which Christ hath erected for this very purpose to perfect the Saints, and to bring them by the unity of the Faith, and knowledge of the Son of God unto a full stature, Ephes. 4. 12, 13.
3. Because the Scripture may speak, and the Ministry teach, and the heart all the while be sealed up and hear nothing, except the Lord from Heaven speak, and open the heart to attend, as he 1did the heart of Lydia, therefore we must ever remember Davids Prayer, Psal. 51. 8. Make me to hear joy and gladness, otherwise seeing I shall 2not see, and hearing I shall not hear. It is the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation, which both openeth 3the heart to the Word, giving an understanding to know the Scriptures, and openeth the Scriptures to the heart, for he takes of Christs, and showeth 4it unto us, Joh. 16. 14. the Spirit doth not reveal truth unto us, as he did in the Primitive patefaction thereof to the Prophets and Apostles, by divine and immediate Inspiration, or in a way