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The means and method of healing in the Church. Set forth in a sermon.…The meanes and method of healing in the Church. Set forth in a sermon.…
The means and method of healing in the Church. Set forth in a sermon. Preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peers in Westminster Abby, April 30. 1660. being a day of solemn humiliation to seek God for his blessing on the counsels of the Parliament. By Edward Reynolds, D.D. and Dean of Christ-Church.The meanes and method of healing in the Church. Set forth in a sermon. Preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peers in Westminster Abby, April 30. 1660. being a day of solemn humiliation to seek God for his blessing on the counsels of the Parliament. By Edward Reynolds, D.D. and Dean of Christ-Church.
London: printed by Tho. Ratcliffe for George Thomason, 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.
3. A Gracious Promise of Mercy, wherein are very remarkable four signal Returns of Grace in conformity to their Duties. 1. They Humble themselves under Gods Holy hand, and he humbleth himself to look down from Heaven. 2. They pray, and God hears their prayer. 3. They seek the favour and the face of God, and God forgives their sin, and is reconciled unto them. 4. They Turn from their wicked ways, and God Heals those evils which those wicked ways had brought upon ⟨p. 3⟩the Land; no duty undertaken in vain, but a suitable and correspondent Mercy promised to encourage them thereunto.
3. A Gracious Promise of Mercy, wherein are very remarkable four signal Returns of Grace in conformity to their Duties. 1. They Humble themselves under Gods Holy hand, and he humbleth himself to look down from Heaven. 2. They pray, and God hears their prayer. 3. They seek the favour and the face of God, and God forgives their sin, and is reconciled unto them. 4. They Turn from their wicked wayes, and God Heals those evils which those wicked wayes had brought upon ⟨p. 3⟩the Land; no duty undertaken in vain, but a sutable and correspondent Mercy promised to encourage them thereunto.
It may here not impertinently be asked, why these three Judgements of shutting up Heaven, sending Locusts and Pestilence, are rather mentioned than any other, since doubtless the Promise doth extend it self further? I take the reason to be, 1. Because these are irresistible, no Counsel, no Policy, no Strength can prevent them. 2. Because they are inflicted by God alone, no second causes immixed in them, if I shut up Heaven, if I command the Locusts, if I send Pestilence.
It may here not impertinently be asked, why these three Judgements of shutting up Heaven, sending Locusts and Pestilence, are rather mentioned than any other, since doubtless the Promise doth extend it self further? I take the reason to be, 1. Because these are irresistable, no Counsel, no Policy, no Strength can prevent them. 2. Because they are inflicted by God alone, no second causes immixed in them, if I shut up Heaven, if I command the Locusts, if I send Pestilence.