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A91746	The meanes and method of healing in the Church. Set forth in a sermon. Preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peers in Westminster Abby, April 30. 1660. being a day of solemn humiliation to seek God for his blessing on the counsels of the Parliament. By Edward Reynolds, D.D. and Dean of Christ-Church.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing R1265; Thomason E983_32; ESTC R203411	17,461	47

Prodigious effusion of the blood of Princes Peers and Prophets the Affronts and Dissipations which have been put upon Parliaments the Contempts which have been poured outon Ministers and At tempts against their Maintenance The great difficulties which lie before the noble Houses at this time in their endeavours of Healing and setling the Land and putting the broken bones and dislocated joynts into due order again the allaying of animosities the moderating of Extremities the reconciling of differences the satisfying of Interests the Preservation of pure Religion and the great concernments of Christ and his people the restoring of collapsed Honour to the Nations and of just Rights to all orders therein which have been so many years obstructed the reviving of Trade the easing of Pressures the reducing of these wofully tossed and naufragated Kingdoms unto Calmness and Serenity again do call aloud for these Duties in the Text that so the Lord may be pleased to hear forgive and heal us himself and shine upon the Counsels and bless the whole undertakings of his servants that they may be Instruments of Healing us likewise For your better performance hereof I shall propose two Expedients I. To take a view of God in himself and in his Relations unto you and dealings with you II. To take a view of your selves in the glass of his pure and holy Law 1. Set the Lord before you as David did Psalm 16. 8. Consider what a God he is with whom we have to do Consider him 1. In himself His searching Eye Humble your selves in his sight Jam. 4. 10. His mighty Hand Humble your selves under his Hand 1 Pet. 5. 6. His Eye can search us we cannot hide from him his Hand can reach us we cannot escape him Every Attribute of God may serve to humble us His Majesty and Glory dreadfull to the Angels Isa. 6. 2. Cujus participatione justi ejus comparatione nec justi He is a great God and therefore greatly to be feared Psalm 89. 6 7. His Holiness wherein he is glorious Exodus 15. 11. So Holy that he cannot be served Josh. 24. 19. Of purer eyes than to behold iniquity His Jealousie and Justice A God to whom vengeance belongeth who will not be mocked or provoked Nahum 1. 2. His Mercy and Goodness which should lead us to Repentance and melt the heart into a filial fear of him Hosea 3. 5. Rom. 2. 4. His Omniscience who searcheth and trieth the heart and the reins hath all things naked and open before him If we know enough by our selves to humble and abase us how should we reverence the eye of God who knoweth all things Such considerations greatly humbled the holiest of men Moses is afraid to look upon God Exod. 3. 6. Job abhors himself Job 42. 5. Elijah hides his face in a mantle 1 Reg. 19 13. Isaiah cries out I am undone Isa. 6. 5. Ezra cannot stand before God Ezra 9. 15. Peter bids Christ depart from him because he is a sinfull man Luke 5. 8. 2. In his Relations to us He our Maker we the Clay He our King we Vassals He our Judge we Malefactors He our Father we undutifull sons He our Master we unprofitable servants All Arguments unto Humiliation 3. In his Dealing with us Our Humiliation melts him all into Mercy when Israel confessed submitted prayed reformed the soul of the Lord was grieved for their misery Judg. 10. 15 16. When Ephraim smote on his thigh the Lords bowels were troubled for him Jer. 31. 19 20. But our stubborness will seal and shut up his compassions against us Levit. 26. 21. Consider him 1. In his Iudgements and various Providences By which we should learn Righteousness Isa. 26. 9. The Lords Cup hath passed through all Orders of men Princes Peers Gentry Ministers People Souldiers themselves We have felt his Judgements in our Houses our Honours our Names our Estates by Wars on Land by Dangers on Sea by Divisions in Church by Confusions in State by more Evils and Sorrows then can be well enumerated And should we not turn unto the Lord that smites Isa. 9. 13. Should we be like Ahaz the worse for our sufferings 2 Chron. 28. 22. Be set on fire and not know it be burnt and not lay it to heart Isa. 42. 25. 2. In his Mercies which have shined upon us through all our clouds We have no reason to complain for we are living men He hath remembred Mercy in the midst of wrath Quenched the flame of War frustrated the Attempts of those who would have kindled it again rebuked the rage of the sea the beast of the reeds as the Psalmist speaks put a stop to the Career of those who had in hope and design swallowed up our Churches our Vniversities our Ministry our Jordan into their dead sea Continued his Gospel and the means of Grace in plenty and liberty amongst us blessed be his name for ever never may this blessing be removed from us restored our Parliaments the great Bulwarks under God of our Religion Liberties Properties Interests all our Endearments towards their Ancient Honour and Splendor again And this Goodness of God calls for our Humiliation I will accept you and gather you out of the Countries and then you shall remember your wayes and loath your selves Ezek. 20. 41 43. With an Hard and a Soft Stone and Mortar we build a Wall with an hard and an soft an Hammer and a Pillow we break a flint with an hard and a soft the Seal and the Wax we make an impression Hard Judgements and soft Mercies should build us up in Holiness break our stubborn hearts and make impressions upon them II. Take a view of your selves of your own Hearts and Lives we are apt to forget our selves Iam. 1. 23. To mistake our selves Prov. 14. 12. Rev. 3. 17. And therefore we are bid to search and try our selves 2 Cor. 13. 5. as a means to silence our complaints against God Lam. 3. 39 40. When the Prodigal son once came to himself and took a surveigh of his own condition he was quickly brought to acknowledge his unworthiness Luke 15. 17 18. This is a Duty of singular use and benefit It enlargeth the heart in godly sorrow for sin past upon the discoveries which this Scrutiny maketh When we remember our doings we shall loath our selves Ezek. 6. 9. It worketh caution and circumspection for the time to come We shall take heed of breaking the Commandments having provoked the Lord so much already Ezra 9. 14. It will cause us to magnifie divine Mercy as Paul did when he called to mind that he had been a Persecutor and Blasphemer 1 Tim. 1. 13 15. If any one should do us the thousanth part of the wrong which we have done God could we humble our selves to feed to cloath to enrich to adopt such a person unto our own family and provide an ample inheritance for him It would make us relie only on free grace and not on any strength of our own when