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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10650	An explication of the hundreth and tenth Psalme wherein the severall heads of Christian religion therein contained; touching the exaltation of Christ, the scepter of his kingdome, the character of his subjects, his priesthood, victories, sufferings, and resurrection, are largely explained and applied. Being the substance of severall sermons preached at Lincolns Inne; by Edward Reynoldes sometimes fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford, late preacher to the foresaid honorable society, and rector of the church of Braunston in Northhampton-shire.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1632 (1632)	STC 20927; ESTC S115794	405,543	546

and draw it away ever so should the word and worship of God worke upon us in all our distempers and in all our deviations Christ was hungry and faint with fasting it was about the sixth houre and hee had sent his Disciples to buy meate and yet having an occasion to doe his Father service hee forgat his food and refused to eate Ioh. 4.6.8.34 The Love of Children hee that is begotten loveth him that did beget him 1 Ioh. 5.1 with a Love of Thankfulnesse We love him because He loved us 1 Ioh. 4.19 I love the Lord because he hath heard my voyce and my supplication Psal. 116.1 With a love of obedience faith worketh by love Gal. 5 6. Love is the fulfilling of the Law Rom. 13.10 If a man love me hee will keepe my words Ioh. 14.23 with a love of reverence and awfull feare A Sonne honoureth his Father Mal. 1.6 If you call on the Father c. Passe the time of your sojourning here in feare 1 Pet. 1.17 The faith of Children For whom should the Childe relie on for maintenance and supportance but the Father Take no thought saying what shall wee eate or what shall wee drinke or wherewith shall wee bee cloathed For your heavenly Father knoweth that you have need of all these things Matth. 6.31 32. The hope assurance and expectation of Children For as Children depend on their parents for present supply so for portions and provisions for the future fathers lay up for their Children and so doth God for his There is an inheritance reserved for us 1 Pet. 1.4 Lastly the Prayers and requests of Children Because ye are Sonnes God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Sonne into your hearts crying Abba Father Gal. 4.6 Note 2. The Birth of a Christian is a divine and heavenly work● God is both Father Mother of the Dew by his power and wisedome a Father by his providence and indulgence a mother Progenitor genitrixque therefore hee is cald in Clem. Alex. Metripater to note that those causalities which are in the second agents divided are eminently and perfectly in him united as all things are to bee resolved into a first unity Hath the Raine a Father or who hath begotten the Drops of Dew saith Iob. Out of whose wombe came the Ice and the hoary frost of heaven who hath gendred it None but God is the parent of the Dew it doth not stay for nor expect any humane concurrence or causality Mich. 5.7 Esai 55.10 such is the call and conversion of a man to Christ A heavenly calling Heb. 3.1 the operation of God in us Col. 2.12 A birth not of bloud nor of the will of the flesh no● of the will of man but of God Ioh. 1 1● 1 Ioh. 3.9 Paul may pla●t and Apollo may water but it is God that must blesse both nay it is God who by them as his instruments doth both of his owne will begat he us Iam. 1.18 The Mi●isters are a Savor of Christ 2 Cor. 2.15 It is not the garment but the perfume in it which diffuseth a sweet sent It is not the Labor of the Minister but Christ whom hee preacheth that worketh upon the soule I laboured more abundantly than they all yet not I but the Grace of God which was with mee 1 Cor. 15.10 It is not good therefore to have the faith of God in respect of persons the seed of this spirituall generation cannot otherwise bee given us than in earthen vessels by men of like passions and infirmities with others Therefore when pure and good seed is here and there sowed to attribute any thing to persons is to derogate from God where gifts are fewer parts meaner probabilities lesse God may and often doth give an increase above hope as to Daniels Pulse that the excellency of the power may bee of him and not of man Though it bee a lame or a leprous hand which soweth the seed yet the successe is no way altered good seed depends not in its growth on the hand that sowes it but on the earth that covers and on the heavens that cherish it So the word borroweth not its efficacy from any humane vertue but from the heart which ponders and the Spirit which sanctifies it When then thou comest unto the word come with affections suteable unto it All earth will not beare all seed some wheate and some but pulse there is first required a fitnesse before there will bee a fruitfulnesse Christ had many things to teach which his Disciples at the time could not carry away because the Comforter was not then sent who was to lead them into all truth they who by use have their senses exercised are fit for strong meate The truth of the Gospell is an heavenly truth and therefore it requires a heavenly disposition of heart to prosper it It is wisedome to those that are perfect though to others foolishnesse and offence The onely reason why the word of truth doth not thrive is because the heart is not fitted nor prepared unto it The seed of it selfe is equall unto all grounds but it prospers onely in the honest and good heart the raine in it selfe alike unto all but of no vertue to the rocks as to other ground by reason of their inward hardnesse and incapacity The Pharises had covetous hearts and they mocked Christ the Philosophers had proud hearts and they scorned Paul The Iewes had carnall hearts and they were offended at the Gospell the people in the wildernesse had unbeleeving hearts and the word preached did not profit them But now a heavenly heart comes with the affections of a Scholer to bee taught by God with the affections of a servant to bee commanded by God with the affections of a Sonne to bee educated by God with the affections of a sinner to bee cur'd by God It considers that it is the Lord from heaven who speakes in the Ministery of the word to him who is but dust and ashes and therefore hee puts his hand on his mouth dares not reply against God nor wrestle with the evidence of his holy Spirit but falleth upon his face and giveth glory unto God beleeves when God promiseth trembles when God threatneth obeyes when God commandeth learnes when God teacheth bringeth alwayes meeknesse and humility of Spirit ready to open unto the word that it may incorporate Lastly from hence we must learne to looke unto God in all his ordinances to expect his arme and Spirit to bee there in revealed to call on and depend on him for the blessing of it If a man could when hee enters into Gods house but powre out his heart in these two things A Promise and a Prayer Lord I am now entring into thy presence to heare thee speake from heaven unto mee to receive thy raine and spirituall Dew which never returneth in vaine but ripeneth a harvest either of corne or weeds of grace or judgement My heart is prepared ô Lord my heart is prepared to learne

a proclamation of the Gospell unto him Moses his prayer was I beseech thee shew me thy glory How doth the Lord grant this Prayer I will make all my goodnesse to passe before thee and then revealeth himselfe unto him almost all by mercy The Lord the Lord God mercifull and gratious long-suffering and abundant in goodnesse and truth keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity transgression and sinne to note unto us that the glory of God is in nothing so much revealed as in his goodnesse Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his people Besides though the Law be indeed from God as from the Authour of it so that in that respect there may seeme to be no difference of excellency betweene that and the Gospell yet wee must observe that by the remainders of Creation though God should not have revealed his Law againe unto Moses in the mount much of the Law and by consequence of God himselfe might have beene discover'd by humane industry as wee see by notable examples of the philosophers and grave heathen But the Gospell is such a mystery as was for ever hidden from the reach and very suspicion of nature and wholly of divine revelation Eye hath not seene nor eare heard neither have entred into the hearts of men the things which God hath prepared for them that love him the Apostle speaketh it of the mystery of the Gospell noting that it is above the observation or learning or comprehension of nature so much as to suspect it nay the naturall inquirie of the Angels themselves could never have discovered it even unto them it is made knowne by the Church that is if it had not beene for the Churches sake that God would reveale so glorious a mystery the Angels in heaven must have beene for ever ignorant of it So extremely desperate was the fall of man that it wanted the infinite and unsearchable wisedome of God himselfe to finde out a remedie against it If the Lord should have proceeded thus farre in mercy towards man and no farther Thou art a wretched Creature and I am a righteous God yea so heavy is my wrath and so wofull thy condition that I cannot choose but take compassion upon thee and therefore I will put the matter into thine owne hands requisite it is that my pitty towards thee should not swallow up the respects to mine owne justice and honour that my mercy should bee a righteous and a wise mercy Consult therefore together all ye children of men and invent a way to reconcile my justice and mercy to one another set mee in a course to shew you mercy without parting from mine owne right and denying the righteous demands of mine offended justice and I will promise you to observe it I say if the mercy of the Lord should have confin'd it selfe within these bounds and referr'd the method of our redemption unto humane discovery we should for ever have continued in a desperate estate everlastingly unable to conceive or so much as in fancy to frame unto our selves a way of escape As the Creatures before their being could have no thought or notion of their being educ'd out of that nothing which they were before So man fallen could not have the smallest conjecture or suspition of any feaseable way to deliver himselfe out of that misery into which he fell If all the learning in the world were gather'd into one man and that man should imploy all his time and studie to frame unto himselfe the notions of a sixth or seventh sense which yet are as expressely fashion'd amongst those infinite Idea's of Gods power and omniscience as these five which are already created he would be as totally ignorant of the conclusion he sought at last as hee was at first For all humane knowledge of naturall things is wrought by a reflexion upon those Phantasmes or Idea's which are impressions made from those senses wee already use and are indeed nothing else but a kinde of notionall existence of things in the memory of man wrought by an externall and sensible perception of that reall existence which they have in themselves And yet in this case a sixth or a seventh sense would agree in genere proximo and so have some kinde of Cognation with those wee already enjoy But a new Covenant a new life a new faith a new salvation are things toto genere beyond the straine and sphere of nature That two should become one and yet remaine two still as God and man doe in one Christ that hee who maketh should bee One with the thing which himselfe hath made that hee who is above all should humble himselfe that he who filleth all should emptie himselfe that he who blesseth all should be himselfe a curse that hee who ruleth all should be himselfe a servant that he who was the prince of life and by whom all things in the world doe consist should himselfe be dissolved and dye that mercy and justice should meet together and kisse each other that the debt should bee payed and yet pardoned that the fault should bee punished and yet remitted that death like Sampsons Lion should have life and sweetnesse in it and be used as an instrument to destroy it selfe these and the like Evangelicall truths are mysteries which surpasse the reach of all the princes of learning in the world It is to be beleeved by a spirituall light which was not so much as possible to a humane reason We may observe that every person in the Trinity setteth himselfe to teach the mystery of the Gospell The Father revealeth it unto men Flesh and bloud hath not revealed it unto thee but my Father which is in heaven It is written in the Prophets They shall be all taught of God Every man therefore that hath heard and learned of the Father commeth unto mee The Son likewise teacheth it unto men therefore hee is called the Angell of Gods Covenant and Counsell that is the Revealer thereof because unto the world he made knowne that deepe project of his Fathers counsell touching the restoring of mankind No man hath seen God at any time the only begotten Sonne which is in the bosome of the Father he hath declared him He only it is who openeth the bosome of his Father that is who revealeth the secret and mysterious counsels and the tender and compassionat affections for the bosome is the seat of secrets and of Love of his Father unto the world And therefore he is said to be a Teacher sent from God and to be the Lord which speaketh from heaven in the ministery of his Gospel and the doctrine which he teacheth is called a heavenly doctrin and a heavenly calling a high calling and oft by the Apost to the Hebrews 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 heavenly things to note that they are not of a naturall or earthly