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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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5. He is to be a nursing Father to the Church, Isa. 49. 23. Gods people are promised that they shall suck the breasts of Kings, Isa. 60. 16. Therefore certainly it belongs to their care to see that the people be provided with the sincere milk of the Word, Where Religion and the means thereof are wanting, to set it up, where it is, to preserve it, where it is corrupted, to reform and to restore it. It is one thing saith Saint Austin for a Prince to serve God in his private capacity as a man,1 this he doth by living faithfully: another thing to serve him in his public capacity, as a Prince, this he doth by a vigorous sanction of Laws, requiring righteous things and forbidding the contrary.
5. He is to be a nursing Father to the Church, Isa. 49. 23. Gods people are promised that they shall suck the breasts of Kings, Isa. 60. 16. Therefore certainly it belongs to their care to see that the people be provided with the sincere milk of the Word, Where Religion and the meanes thereof are wanting, to set it up, where it is, to preserve it, where it is corrupted, to reforme and to restore it. It is one thing saith Saint Austin for a Prince to serve God in his private capacity as a man,1 this he doth by living faithfully: another thing to serve him in his publick capacity, as a Prince, this he doth by a vigorous sanction of Laws, requiring righteous things and forbidding the contrary.
- 1Aug. ep. 50.