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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.
And this may teach the holiest of men; 1. To take heed of playing the Wantons with the Grace of God: Though God be a tender, yet he may be an Angry Father: And who knoweth the Power of his Anger? Psalm 90. 11. 2. To be more careful to stand in the breach against public Judgements, having by their sins contributed to the bringing of them upon the Land.
And this may teach the holiest of men; 1. To take heed of playing the Wantons with the Grace of God: Though God be a tender, yet he may be an Angry Father: And who knoweth the Power of his Anger? Psalm 90. 11. 2. To be more carefull to stand in the breach against publick Judgements, having by their sins contributed to the bringing of them upon the Land.
2. It is not our doing of Duty, but Gods being in Covenant with us, which is the ground of his Mercy to us. Property doth stir up Compassion, Though they have provoked me, yet I will spare them, because they are mine, Malachi 3. 17. Whence we learn;
2. It is not our doing of Duty, but Gods being in Covenant with us, which is the ground of his Mercy to us. Property doth stir up Compassion, Though they have provoked me, yet I will spare them, because they are mine, Malachy 3. 17. Whence we learn;
1. In what manner to go to God, and to plead with him, not in confidence of our Duty, but of our Relation to him as His, Thou art our Father, we are thine, Isa. 63. 16