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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.
2. The Lord hath variety of Judgements whereby to reduce froward and stubborn sinners, can punish them in the Heavens over them, in the Earth under them, in their bowels within them, can beset them upward, downward, outward, inward, and make a Net, and Chain, and Hedge of afflictions to shut them in, And to fence up ⟨p. 9⟩their way that they cannot pass, Job 3. 23. Job 19. 8. When he will plead, he will take away all Refuge, and make every Region, towards which we look, minister Despair. They shall look upward, and they shall look unto the earth, and behold Trouble, and Darkness, and Dimness of Anguish, Isa. 8. 21, 22. If they look without, behold a Sword; if within, behold Famine and Pestilence, Levit. 26, 25. Jer. 21. 4. 6 Ezek. 7. 15. Evil, which they shall not be able to escape, or go forth of, Jer. 11. 11. When men multiply sins, the Lord usually multiplieth Judgements, till he either bend by Repentance, or break by Destruction. When Cleanness of teeth, Blasting and Mildew, Pestilence and Sword, the Judgements of Sodom and Gomorrah, did not prevail with Israel to return, then he threateneth final wrath, Therefore Thus will I do unto thee, Amos 4. 6.—12. Which Thus, in the Prophet Amos, seemeth to me, to be the same with Lo Ammi, in the Prophet Hosea, an utter rejection of them from being the Lords people, Hos. 1. 9. Four times after one another doth the Lord threaten to punish his people seven times more for their sins, if they walk contrary unto him, ⟨p. 10⟩