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Confirmation and restoration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of…Confirmation and restauration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of…
Confirmation and restoration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of the corruptions and divisions of the churches: submissively, but earnestly tendered to the consideration of the sovereign powers, magistrates, ministers, and people, that they may awake, and be up and doing in the execution of so much, as appeareth to be necessary as they are true to Christ, his Church and Gospel, and to their own and others souls, and to the peace and welfare of the nations; and as they will answer the neglect to Christ, at their peril. / By Richard Baxter, an unworthy minister of Christ, that longeth to see the healing of the churches.Confirmation and restauration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of the corruptions and divisions of the churches: submissively, but earnestly tendered to the consideration of the soveraigne powers, magistrates, ministers, and people, that they may awake, and be up and doing in the execution of so much, as appeareth to be necessary as they are true to Christ, his Church and Gospel, and to their own and others souls, and to the peace and wellfare of the nations; and as they will answer the neglect to Christ, at their peril. / By Richard Baxter, an unworthy minister of Christ, that longeth to see the healing of the churches.
London: printed by A.M. for Nevil Simmons book-seller, 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.
And so he supposed all would do, that looked to be heard by the God of Heaven, when vers. 38. he prayeth for the people thus: What Prayer and Supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy People Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart (that was their Prayer-Book) and spread forth his hands towards this house, then hear thou in Heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, &c. see vers. 54. 2 Chron. 6. 12, 13. We must lift up our Hearts with ⟨p. 100⟩our Hands to God in the Heavens, Lam. 3. 41. We must prepare our hearts, and stretch out our hands towards him, Job 11. 13. Praying to a strange God, is signified by stretching out the hand to him, Psal. 44. 20. Even in Praises the people were to Lift up their hands towards Heaven, Neh. 8. 6. Yea and in Blessing, Lifting up the Hands was used to signify whence the Blessing came, Luke 24. 50. Now this being so commonly applied, the other that is so near a kin to it, may without scruple be used in any case that that falls under the foredescribed General case. Indeed every man must lift up hands, because every man must pray, (and it is an engagement, that those hands that are lifted up to God, be not used in wicked works:) but Laying on of hands is ordinarily the Act of a Superior, to the Ends abovesaid.
And so he supposed all would do, that lookt to be heard by the God of Heaven, when vers. 38. he prayeth for the people thus: What Prayer and Supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy People Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart (that was their Prayer-Book) and spread forth his hands towards this house, then heare thou in Heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and doe, &c. see vers. 54. 2 Chron. 6. 12, 13