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A91739	Divine efficacy without humane power. Opened in a sermon preached at St. Margarets Church in Westminster before the Right Honourable the House of Commons, June 28. 1660. Being the day of solemne thanksgiving for the happy return of the Kings Majesty. / By Edward Reynolds D.D. and chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing R1246; Thomason E988_27; ESTC R203408	21,066	55

Nabal refused to send him and his men provision and compare him with David humbled under the hand of God when Absolom rebelled and Shimei cursed him and then judge how easie an hard duty is to a prepared heart and how hard an easie thing is to a froward heart 3. We may not betake our selves to carnal shifts for avoiding any danger which assaults us in doing duty If the Lord set us on work he is able without our sinne to deliver us Gods alsufficiency is an invincible argument to sincerity Gen. 17. 1. Why should I make my selfe beholding to a sinful shift when I have an alsufficient God There were some Christians in the Apostles time who out of confidence in their own knowledge and strength to stand would venture to eat meat at the Idols table thereby keeping in with their Idolatrous friends for fear of persecution To these the Apostle giveth 1. A sharp Exhortation to take heed of falling when they think they stand 1 Cor. 10. 12. 2. An answer to their fears that God will not suffer them to be tempted beyond the strength which he will supply them withal verse 13. 4. We may not therefore shrink from duty upon any discouragement but follow the call of God and be upright before him When it is our duty to obey it is his promise to protect Say not with Solomons sluggard There is a Lion in the way Prov. 22. 13. but remember there are Angels with us to bear us in our way Psal. 91. 11. Jonah was afraid to go to Niniveh a great and a wicked City one man to threaten so many thousands with speedy destruction it was the next way to be swallowed up and destroy'd himself He thinks there was no means to flie this danger but by declining duty And now he that feared the raging of the people met with the tempest of the sea he that feared to be swallowed up of danger was swallowed up of present death into the belly of the Whale and the Lord by delivering him from that death taught him to trust on his power who could as well have delivered him from any other The Lord hath called you Right Honourable unto arduous and weighty services A very difficult work it is to cure complicated diseases to extricate and unravel the intangled interests of divided minds to allay animosities to calme jealousies to moderate rigours of judgement to close distant opinions to separate the gold from the drosse the precious truths and worship of God from those many prodigies of error and madnesse which had so long assaulted it to settle the house of God and the hearts of men upon firme foundations of truth peace and righteousnesse to joyn together the sticks of Ephraim and Judah and to make whole the broken staves of beauty and bands If you shall now say as David did make thy way strait before our face as Iehosaphat did we know not what to do but our eyes are upon thee as Paul did Lord what wilt thou have me to do Thou hast done great things for us whereof we are glad thou hath delivered our eyes from teares our ●ee from falling what is it that we now shall render to the Lord for all his benefits truly Lord we are thy servants and would willingly act in our places for thy name and for the Interests of thy Christ and of his Church we have no higher design then this That the God who hath wrought wonders for us may be alone magnified and advanced by us in Orthodox doctrine in pure Ordinances in spiritual worship in united affections that no unnecessary thing may remain as a ground of offence and fomes of division and separation but that all healing and closing counsels may be used to make us all of one heart and of one soul If you thus in singleness and uprightness of heart do bespeak the Lord I can confidently say from him to you that he will be with you and uphold you that his Spirit will level all mountains before you and break in pieces any gates of brasse and cut in sunder any bars of iron which stand in your way the service he requires of you he will work for you he will not only command you by his Authority but assist you by his Grace When our interests and Gods are folded up together when we make his Will our will and his End our end we are sure never to fail in our designs because he can never miscarry in his We have seen how the Lord encourageth his servants against all difficulties which might dismay them in his service Now the means by which he doth it is by a Word This is the VVord of the Lord unto Zerubbabel Nothing can so effectually uphold the spirits of men above difficulties and discouragements which they meet with in the duties whereunto they are called as a seasonable word spoken unto them from God The VVord of the Lord to Zerubbabel is confirmation enough against all the oppositions of most potent adversaries So it was to Josua I will not fail thee nor forsake thee c. Jos. 1. 5 8. So to Asa when he heard the words of the Prophet he took courage 2 Chron. 15. 8. The righteous are bold as a Lion Prov. 28. 1. And their confidence is founded on a word And well it may if we consider 1. The Truth of it confirmed by signes and wonders by the solemne Oath of God Now it is impossible for God to lie every word of his is founded on his own immutable being and these are grounds of strong consolation Heb. 6. 17 18. 2. The Authority of it which is sufficient to animate any man unto obedience A man that hath an ample commission from a supream power acteth with courage as knowing the power he hath to back him No commission so full of power as that which God gives This made Moses and Aaron venture on Pharaoh and all his Sorcerers Amos an herdsman upon the Court of Ieroboam a King Peter and Iohn illiterate men to speak boldly notwithstanding the inhibition of the chief Priest and his Council Acts 4. 19 20. Acts 5. 29. 3. The Efficacy of it Nothing more operative then the Word of God It was a Word only which made the world He said let there be light and there was light By the VVord of the Lord were the Heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth Psalme 33. 6. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Euseb. calleth it And it is a word only which upholds the world Heb. 1. 3. and the word is able still to give being to every promise and subsistence to every purpose of of his towards his people It is a commanding and a creating word Psal. 44. 4. Isa. 57. 19. Gods purposes and promises are ever seconded by his power He will not leave till he have done what he hath spoken Gen. 28. 15. I have spoken I will bring it to pass I have purposed I will

DIVINE EFFICACY WITHOUT HUMANE POWER Opened in a SERMON Preached at St. Margarets Church in Westminster before the Right Honourable the House of COMMONS June 28. 1660. Being the day of solemne Thanksgiving for the happy Return of the Kings Majesty By EDWARD REYNOLDS D. D. And Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty LONDON Printed by Tho. Ratcliffe for George Thomason at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard 1660. Friday 29th June 1660. Ordered THat the thanks of this House be given to Dr. Reynolds for his great paines in preaching and carrying on the work of publick Thansgiving before the House at Saint Margarets Church Westminster yesterday and he is desired to Print his Sermon then preached and is to enjoy like Priviledges in Printing as hath been allowed to others in like Cases And Mr. Pryn is desired to acquaint him herewith and to give him the thanks of this House accordingly W. Jessop Cl. of the Commons House of Parliament TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF ENGLAND IN PARLIAMENT Assembled Right Honourable IT may justly seem strange unto you That when Joy is one of the swiftest affections of the soule and of all other most impatient of suppression This Sermon preached before you on one the greatest solemnities of Joy that this Nation hath seen should have yielded such slow and lingring obedience unto your commands and like Cushi should come last with the tyings of a Restored King for which I have no other Apology to make but this That the joy of one Service did retard the hast of another For having together with some other of my Reverend Brethren received a command from his Sacred Majesty whose heart is zealously set upon healing the breaches and divisions which are in the Church of God amongst us to draw up some materials towards so happy a work and finding That in papers of such a nature brought under the view of different judgments wherein every clause yea many times single words and particular expressions prove the subject of long debates it is impossible to make such dispatch as otherwise the urgency of the design doth passionately call for the necessary and constant attendance upon that service did put for a time a suspension upon the obedience which I was ready much sooner to have yielded unto your Commands for publishing this Sermon It is now at last by Gods assistance come forth and sheweth how easily the Spirit and providence of God can erect his Temple and provide for the Interests of his Truth and Worship though the instruments of it be utterly destitute of humane power It is indeed an happy thing when they who have power will exert it for God and lay it out upon the service of his House But though they should want hands or hearts to build the Church God hath ever a residue of Spirit to advance his own work by and knows how to infatuate all Counsels and to dissipate all enterprizes and machinations which are framed against it Our eyes have seen how easie it is with God to dissolve and demolish the most cunningly erected structure which either policy could contrive or power support and that with a still voice and in a silent way without so much as drawing a Sword or striking a blow to effect it How he can do things which we looked not for by rebuking seas and levelling mountaines and melting Armes and scattering the beasts of the reeds and making a plain and sudden way through insuperable difficulties to bring home our DREAD SOVERAIGN to his Throne and Native Dominions again And he who hath wrought wonders for us in these our Civil concernments can do the like for his Church the Interests whereof are of all things on the Earth dearest unto him and the welfare and happinesse whereof all the Earthquakes and Concussions which have beene amongst us do call aloud unto you to looke after aad to be tender of When the Lord shakes heaven and Earth Churches and States it is to make way for him who is the Desire of all Nations If Christ and the Glory of his holy Ordinances and spiritual worship be not more exalted If the sonnes of Levi be not purified that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousnesse if the House of God be not purged of corruptions if pompe and splendor and terrene interests be the things most passionately prosecuted and the vitals and essentials of Religion the great things of the Law purity of Doctrine spiritualnesse of Worship power of Godliness but in the second place regarded If we be zealous for mint and cummin and philacteries and precepts of men and have not a proportionable fervour of zeale for the Magnalia Dei Certainly God will yet reckon with us and call us to an account for all the blood which hath been shed for all the Treasure which hath been exhausted for all the Judgements and mercies for all the providences and wonders which have been expended upon us I speak not this to accuse but onely to awaken not to charge but onely to beseech you to consider whether the Lord do not expect That after such vicissitudes of wonders as we have seen especially having inclined the heart of our GRACIOUS SOVERAIGN unto moderate healing and Reforming Resolutions you should together with him take up the same purposes to make the Church of Christ amongst us more holy and happy then ever it was before For certainly never any Parliament had greater advantages to promote Religion than you have I shall conclude this Dedication and addresse unto you with the words of Azariah the Prophet unto Asa The Lord is with you while you be with him and if you seek him he will be found of you but if ye forsake him he will forsake you The Lord shine upon all your Counsels From my Study July 24. 1660. Your Honours most humbly and devoted in all duty and obedience EDW. REYNOLDS DIVINE EFFICACY WITHOUT HVMANE POWER Opened in a Sermon Preached at St. Margarets Church in Westminster before the Right Honourable the House of COMMONS June 28. 1660. ZACH. 4. 6. Then he answered and spake unto me saying This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel saying Not by might nor by power but by my Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts IN the former part of the Chapter we have a Vision of a golden Candlestick with a Bowle and seven Lamps and Pipes and two Olive Trees on either side of the Bowle out of which the Candlestick was supplied with Oyle The Prophet being prepared by an humble sense and confession of his own ignorance to receive fuller instruction concerning it is by the Angel in these words acquainted with the minde of God therein Teaching us by the way not to despond or be discouraged by the difficulty of the Scriptures from the studying of them but to be humbled under the sense of our own blindness and