A91754:13
Scions praises. Opened in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor,…Sions praises. Opened in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor,…
Scions praises. Opened in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen and common council of London: on the day of solemn thanksgiving unto God for his long and gracious preservation of that great city, from pestilence, fire, and other dangers. By Edward Reynolds. D.D.Sions praises. Opened in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen and common council of London: on the day of solemn thanksgiving unto God for his long and gracious preservation of that great city, from pestilence, fire, and other dangers. By Edward Reynolds. D.D.
London: printed by Tho. Newcomb for George Thomason, 1657
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Yet though the Lord be thus wholly self sufficient, and do not receive any thing from the creatures, yet he is pleased graciously to communicate himself unto them in several prints and degrees of goodness, as the Sun sheddeth light upon those bodies, from whence it receiveth no retribution at all
But of all Creatures he hath chosen his Church 1to be nearest unto him, and to participate most of him; that is, a society of men which he hath2 formed for himself to be a-chosen Generation, a royal Priesthood, an holy Nation, a peculiar People. As the Sun manifesteth its light unto us in the Moon, more then in any other of the Stars; so the Lord, his Goodness and Wisdom in the Church more then in any other Creatures.
And now, as the Moon receiving light from the Sun doth not swallow it up, and bury it, but reflecteth it, and as it were, reporteth and publisheth it abroad unto the world: So the Lord having showed mercies unto the Church, requireth that they be not buried in oblivion, but that the glory and praise of them be acknowledged unto him. Great Luminaries have certain Beams as ⟨p. 3⟩