A91760:39
The wall & glory of Jerusalem, in a sermon preached in St. Pauls-Church London,…
The wall & glory of Jerusalem, in a sermon preached in St. Pauls-Church London, before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Lord General, aldermen, Common Council, and companies of the Honourable City of London, February 28. 1659. Being a day of solemn thanksgiving unto God, for restoring the Parliament and Common Council, and for preserving the City. By Edward Reynolds D.D.The wall & glory of Jerusalem, in a sermon preached in St. Pauls-Church London, before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor, Lord General, aldermen, Common Council, and companies of the Honorable City of London, February 28. 1659. Being a day of solemn thanksgiving unto God, for restoring the Parliament and Common Council, and for preserving the City. By Edward Reynolds D.D.
London: printed by Tho for George Thomason, 1660
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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.
1. It is Terrible and conspicuous, which in ⟨p. 15⟩a wonderful manner doth strike fear into his Enemies, as he promised to go before his people as a consuming fire, Deut. 9. 3. The Prophet describes the terrible majesty of the Lord by a Throne of Fire, 1Ezek. 1. 26, 27. And the glorious coming of Christ, by flames of fire, 2 Thes. 1. 8, 9. We are bid to praise him in the fires, Isai. 24. 15. For those conspicuous mercies whereby he hath showed himself a consuming fire in behalf of his people. He answereth his people by terrible things, Psal. 65. 5. things which they looked not for, Isai. 64. 3. To make his name known unto his adversaries.
1. It is Terrible and conspicuous, which in ⟨p. 15⟩a wonderful manner doth strike fear into his Enemies, as he promised to go before his people as a consuming fire, Deut. 9. 3. The Prophet describes the terrible majesty of the Lord by a Throne of Fire, 1Ezek. 1. 26, 27. And the glorious coming of Christ, by flames of fire, 2 Thes. 1. 8, 9. We are bid to praise him in the fires, Isai. 24. 15. For those conspicuous mercies whereby he hath shewed himself a consuming fire in behalf of his people. He answereth his people by terrible things,