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The comfort and crown of great actions. In a sermon preached, Decemb. 4. 1657.…
The comfort and crown of great actions. In a sermon preached, Decemb. 4. 1657. Before the honourable East-India company. By Edward Reynolds, D.D.The comfort and crown of great actions. In a sermon preached, Decemb. 4. 1657. Before the honorable East-India company. By Edward Reynolds, D.D.
London: printed by Tho. Newcomb for George Thomason, 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.
2. For Assistance; for when we know what to do, we have weak hearts and weak hands, apt to be discouraged, apt to flag and hang down, except he be pleased to animate and strengthen them, and as he hath promised, that he will hold our hand that it may not miscarry, Isai. 42. 6. We must all say as Nehemiah did, Strengthen thou our 1hands, Chap. 6. 9. As Jehoshaphat did, We have no might, we know not what to do, 2 Chron. 20. 12. And therefore our eyes are upon God; He it is that girdeth with strength, Psal. 18. 39. It is not we that do any thing, but the grace of God which is with us, 1 Cor. 15. 10. Phil. 4. 12, 13. Isai. 26. 12.
- 1Certum est nos velle cum volumus, sed ille facit ut velimus, &c. Aug▪ de Grat. & lib. Arb. c. 16.
3. For Success; for when we are taught, and when we are strengthened, yet still we must wait ⟨p. 20⟩upon God for his blessing. We by his help may do our works, but he reserveth it to himself as his peculiar work to impart the blessing: We may draw the Patent, but the Prince only can command the Seal, and make it thereby valid and effectual, Psal. 127. 1, 2. Paul and Apollo can only plant and water, but the increase is from God alone,