The author and subject of healing in the Church. Set forth in a sermon preached before the Right Honorable the Parliament of England, at St. Margaret's Church in Westminster, on Wednesday April 25 1660. Being the first day of their assembly / by Edward Reynolds.

  • Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.
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1660
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Credit: The author and subject of healing in the Church. Set forth in a sermon preached before the Right Honorable the Parliament of England, at St. Margaret's Church in Westminster, on Wednesday April 25 1660. Being the first day of their assembly / by Edward Reynolds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IO lug.de p’<£- eji tSartt. c. 8 ■ Ad Sinrplic. lib. i. qu.2. do notwithftanding all their paffionate alterca¬ tions,M4t.20.i5Jand would let the difference \ between him that feareth the Lord, and him chat feareth him not, be afcribed only unto 1 the gift of grace, without the which, no man would feare him*, which rich grace,* ntillo dtiro Cordcrefpuitur, ideo enmdatur ut cordis duritia primitus aufcratur , as the fame Father fpeakes, is not refufed by any hard heart, for it is therefore given that hardnefs of heart may be taken away. Though man be free to refifl grace, yet he is not free to conquer it-? Gods mercy is viftorious as well as his J uftice. That which cometh into jour mind, (hall not he at all, that ye fay, we will be as the Heathen, as the Families of the Countries, to ferve wood and (lone , as 1 live faith the Lord God, furely with a mighty hand, and with a jlretehed out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule oixr you *, Ezek. 20. 32, 33. Where the Lord threatneth to conquer them with his mercy, he will have mercy on whom he wil have mer¬ cy, Si SDeus miferetur etiam volumus,adeandem qnippe mifericordiam pertinet ut velimus. If men would be but contented that God fliould ufe his free will \ngivingh\s grace, as well as they contend for their owne free will to accept it*, if the time which is fpent in dis¬ puting for free will,, were Oent in begging it: or if when we beg tree \vf 1 of God , that we] mry!