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The Lords property in His redeemed people. Opened in a sermon at St. Pauls…
The Lords property in His redeemed people. Opened in a sermon at St. Pauls Church, London, Octob. 28. / By Edward Reynolds, D.D. and chaplain in ordinary to the Kings Majesty. Printed by the order of the Lord Mayor and court of aldermen.
London: printed by T.R. for George Thomason, 1660
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AT PAULS-CHURCH, Octob. 28. 1660.AT PAƲLS-CHƲRCH, Octob. 28. 1660.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Again, we are to distinguish Inter causam essendi, & cognoscendi; between the cause of confidence a priori, 1and the means and arguments whereby to know it a posteriori. ⟨p. 20⟩2Our good works are not the merit, or cause, or proper foundation of our own salvation, or confidence concerning it; but only the free Grace of God, and the Righteousness of Christ thereby bestowed upon us; yet from an holy life, as an effect of Faith in Christ, and fruit of divine love, and certain Antecedent unto salvation, we may draw comfortable arguments a posteriori to establish our hearts in the expectations of it. In which respect the wise man saith, That in the fear of the Lord there is strong confidence, Prov. 14. 26.
And for the Apostles Metaphor of a foundation, it is there opposed evidently to that which he calleth in the same place, verse 17, The uncertainty of Riches, to note the stability and permanency of that treasure, which they that are rich in good works shall at last enjoy; so that there is nothing of causality intended in it. Not to pass by the notion of a very learned man upon the place; who telleth us, that there the word [Greek or Hebrew] importeth the same which Gnikar doth in the Rabbins, which signifieth, 1as he observeth out of Maimonides, Scriptum quo cavetur de refundenda creditori pecunia, so that the Apostles meaning, is the same with Solomons,