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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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3. We may not betake our selves to carnal shifts for avoiding any danger, which assaults us in doing duty. If the Lord set us on work, he is able without our sin to deliver us. Gods all-sufficiency is an invincible argument to sincerity, Gen. 17. 1. ⟨p. 14⟩Why should I make my self beholding to a sinful shift, when I have an all-sufficient God? There were some Christians in the Apostles time, who out of confidence in their own knowledge and strength to stand, would venture to eat meat at the Idols table, thereby keeping in with their Idolatrous friends for fear of persecution. To these the Apostle giveth, 1. A sharp Exhortation, to take heed of falling when they think they stand, 1 Cor. 10. 12. 2. An answer to their fears, that God will not suffer them to be tempted beyond the strength which he will supply them withal, verse 13.
3. We may not betake our selves to carnal shifts for avoiding any danger, which assaults us in doing duty. If the Lord set us on work, he is able without our sinne to deliver us. Gods alsufficiency is an invincible argument to sincerity, Gen. 17. 1. ⟨p. 14⟩Why should I make my selfe beholding to a sinful shift, when I have an alsufficient God? There were some Christians in the Apostles time, who out of confidence in their own knowledge and strength to stand, would venture to eat meat at the Idols table, thereby keeping in with their Idolatrous friends for fear of persecution. To these the Apostle giveth, 1. A sharp Exhortation, to take heed of falling when they think they stand, 1 Cor. 10. 12. 2. An answer to their fears, that God will not suffer them to be tempted beyond the strength which he will supply them withal, verse 13.