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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
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3. A gracious promise of forgiveness, to serene his countenance, and lift up the light thereof upon them▪ for even when we do his Will, and when we are His People, we want pardoning Mercy. There is need of pardon not only for the ungodly unto their Justification, but also for his own people and Children into a Restitution to paternal favour, the sense and fruition whereof they may forfeit by their sins. And this is Gods method in hearing prayers, to forgive sin before he cures pain, Mat. 9. 2. For indeed when sin is pardoned, the sickness is cured at the root, for sin is the sting of every Affliction, as well as of death.
4. A Promise of Healing, Healing of the Land, the Humiliations and Prayers of Gods peculiar people are beneficial to the whole Land; The innocent shall deliver the Island, Job 22. 30. A Joseph in Egypt, an Elijah in Israel is the Chariots and Horsemen thereof. An Humbled, praying, converting people, shall certainly be an Healed people: And if ever we hope to be healed to purpose, this must be our Method to it.
4. A Promise of Healing, Healing of the Land, the Humiliations and Prayers of Gods peculiar people are beneficial to the whole Land; The innocent shall deliver the Island, Job 22. 30. A Joseph in Egypt, an Eliah in Israel is the Chariots and Horsemen thereof. An Humbled, praying, converting people, shall certainly be an Healed people: And if ever we hope to be healed to purpose, this must be our Method to it.