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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.
It fits for approach to God, because the more humble, the more welcome: the more we tremble at his Threatenings, the more we shall supplicate for his Grace, Isa. 66. 2. Job 9. 15.
It fits for approach to God, because the more humble, the more welcome: the more we tremble at his Threatnings, the more we shall supplicate for his Grace, Isa. 66. 2. Job 9. 15.
It disposeth to a Confession of sin, as we see in the poor Prodigal and Publican, Luke 15. 17, 18, 19. Luke 18. 13.
It prepares the heart for the entertainment of Mercy, though the proclamation be made, and the Court of Mercy be open to all, Rev. 17. 22. yet while men love sin, they forsake Mercy, Jon. 2. 8. But when the soul is humbled, it opens to God, and ⟨p. 22⟩his Grace. Weary souls are glad to be satiated, Jer. 31. 25.