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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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My Spirit is here opposed to an Arm of flesh, as Isa. 31. 3. to signify that the Lord alone would bring this work to pass, without the help of humane power, as he said by the Prophet Hosea, I will save them ⟨p. 5⟩by the Lord their God, and will not save them by Bow, nor by Sword, nor by Battle, by Horses nor by Horsemen, Hos. 1. 7. As Christ was conceived not by humane Generation, but by the power of the most high, Luke 1. 35. So the Temple, a type of Christ, was to be raised by the power of the Spirit guiding various intercurrent providences unto that end.
My Spirit is here opposed to an Arme of flesh, as Isa. 31. 3. to signifie that the Lord alone would bring this work to pass, without the help of humane power, as he said by the Prophet Hosea, I will save them ⟨p. 5⟩by the Lord their God, and will not save them by Bowe, nor by Sword, nor by Battel, by Horses nor by Horsemen, Hos. 1. 7. As Christ was conceived not by humane Generation, but by the power of the most high, Luke 1. 35. So the Temple, a type of Christ, was to be raised by the power of the Spirit guiding various intercurrent providences unto that end.
1. The Spirit did powerfully stir up the hearts of Zerubbabel, Joshua, and the people to the work, Hag. 1. 14