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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. The Efficacy of it. Nothing more operative then the Word of God. It was a Word only which made the world. He said, let there be light, and there was light; By the Word of the Lord were the Heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth, Psalm 33. 6. [Greek or Hebrew], Euseb. calleth it. And it is a word only which upholds the world, Heb. 1. 3. and the word is able still to give being to every promise, and subsistence to every purpose of of his towards his people, It is a commanding, and a creating word, Psal. 44. 4. Isa. 57. 19. Gods purposes and promises are ever seconded by his power. He will not leave, till he have done what he hath spoken, Gen. 28. 15. I have spoken, I will bring ⟨p. 19⟩it to pass, I have purposed, I will do it, Isa. 46. 11.
3. The Efficacy of it. Nothing more operative then the Word of God. It was a Word only which made the world. He said, let there be light, and there was light; By the VVord of the Lord were the Heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth, Psalme 33. 6. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Euseb. calleth it. And it is a word only which upholds the world, Heb. 1. 3. and the word is able still to give being to every promise, and subsistence to every purpose of of his towards his people, It is a commanding, and a creating word, Psal. 44. 4. Isa. 57. 19. Gods purposes and promises are ever seconded by his power. He will not leave, till he have done what he hath spoken,