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Divine efficacy without humane power. Opened in a sermon preached at St. Margarets Church…
Divine efficacy without humane power. Opened in a sermon preached at St. Margarets Church in Westminster before the Right Honourable the House of Commons, June 28. 1660. Being the day of solemn thanksgiving for the happy return of the Kings Majesty. / By Edward Reynolds D.D. and chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty.Divine efficacy without humane power. Opened in a sermon preached at St. Margarets Church in Westminster before the Right Honourable the House of Commons, June 28. 1660. Being the day of solemne thanksgiving for the happy return of the Kings Majesty. / By Edward Reynolds D.D. and chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty.
London: printed by Tho. Ratcliffe for George Thomason, 1660
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DIVINE EFFICACY WITHOUT HUMANE POWER. Opened in a Sermon Preached at St. Margarets Church in Westminster, before the Right Honourable the House of COMMONS, June 28. 1660.
DIVINE EFFICACY WITHOUT HƲMANE POWER. Opened in a Sermon Preached at St. Margarets Church in Westminster, before the Right Honourable the House of COMMONS, June 28. 1660.
ZACH. 4. 6. Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts.
IN the former part of the Chapter we have a Vision of a golden Candlestick, with a Bowl and seven Lamps and Pipes, and two Olive Trees on either side of the Bowl, out of which the Candlestick was ⟨p. 2⟩supplied with Oil. The Prophet being prepared by an humble sense and confession of his own ignorance to receive fuller instruction concerning it, is by the Angel in these words acquainted with the mind of God therein. Teaching us by the way not to despond or be discouraged by the difficulty of the Scriptures from the studying of them, but to be humbled under the sense of our own blindness, and to stir up in our selves a serious desire after fuller knowledge of God in them, and to betake our selves unto Christ, to reveal the counsel of God unto us; and then to rest assured that the Lord will help our infirmities, and give us an understanding to know him, so far as shall be necessary for our condition and salvation. According unto those gracious promises, The meek he will teach his way, and show them that fear him his Covenant,