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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    tentibtts clementer ignofcat, that he rrsayj bountifully give the things for which we pray, and gracioufly pardon the fins which we confefs. z. Befides our fins, wg are fur- rounded with Enemies, and befet on every J fide with lemftations, andthough we have a; promife ©f victory over them, and fufficiencj of grace agatnft them, yet we have no pro¬ mife of abfolute immunity, that we (hall be invulnerable by them, the experience of our own Lapfes, and of the Kolieft and greattft Saints fufficiently evidence unto us what poor hand fraile Creatures we are when the Lord leaves us, to try us, as he did Hezekiah, z Cron. 3 2.31. 3 • Sorrorv is the naturall Off-fpring or finn and temptation, a fick and a wounded m?n cannot but feel the paine of that which weakneth him. There ai e 7 not any men,moremen of forrowand acquain¬ ted with grief, then they whofe eyes are mofi; open to fee , whofe hearts moft tendet to feel the weight of finn, the terrors of God, and the AfTaalts of temptation. Being there¬ fore fubjedi to fins, to wounds, to [arrows, no wonder if they ft an in need of healing. And indeed none call out fo importunately i for healing, either for themfelves or for the j Church of God, as they that feare his name. $er.S.zz.P[«l.5i. 8. i8.P/i/. 38. 3--3. He that fhall read the dolefull complaints of -f 00, 01 He man 5}