A91739:64
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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The Church of God amongst us hath in our late miserable and licentious confusions suffered great dilapidations in the holy truths, and in the unity and peace thereof; I shall not pollute the solemnity of this days joy, with giving you in (which is hardly possible) a Catalogue of them. Unto you, Right Honourable, and the other orders of the Kingdom, it belongeth to be the repairers of our breaches, and the restorers of paths to dwell in. Do this as it ought to be done, and certainly there will be nothing more conducent to the settling of our tranquility, to the establishing of Government, to the re-uniting of the shattered and divided hearts of the people, and to the edification of the Church, which it infinitely more concerneth all wise and good men to look after, then any single, domestical or separated interest. Nor are you without direction in the Text for this weighty employment. For,
The Church of God amongst us hath in our late miserable and licentious confusions suffered great dilapidations in the holy truths, and in the unity and peace thereof; I shall not pollute the solemnity of this days joy, with giving you in (which is hardly possible) a Catalogue of them. Unto you, Right Honourable, and the other orders of the Kingdome, it belongeth to be the repairers of our breaches, and the restorers of paths to dwell in. Do this as it ought to be done, and certainly there will be nothing more conducent to the setling of our tranquility, to the establishing of Government, to the re-uniting of the shattered and divided hearts of the people, and to the edification of the Church, which it infinitely more concerneth all wise and good men to look after, then any single, domestical or separated interest. Nor are you without direction in the Text for this weighty imployment. For,