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truth_n	church_n	faith_n	fundamental_a	2,204	5	10.1723	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57130	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. Margarets Church in Westminster, on Wednesday, April 25, 1660, being the day of their assembly / by Dr. Edward Reynolds ...	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing R1239; ESTC R36785	18,560	46

with the Shadows and 〈◊〉 of the Law 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 misled by the 〈◊〉 glosses of S●…ibes and Pharisees sold and devoured by their own shepherds wofully oppressed under Alexander Janneus Hircanus Aristobulus sub●…ued by Pompey into the form of a Roman Province and then sorely afflicted under the Tyranny of Antipater and Herod that after such a night of darkness and distress the promised Messiah should come to break the yoke and rod of their oppressor and assert his people into Light and Liberty again That he should come as the warm and welcom beams of the Sun after a dead winter or a gloomy and tempestuous night to heal and remove all the sins and sorrows of his people In the words we have these particulars considerable 1. The discriminating grace of God between a Remnant that feared his name and the body of a co●…upt and prophane people 2. The supposition of a State of sickness and soreness of sin and sorrow under which even this Holy Remnant did lie with a gracious promise of healing unto them 3. The Author of this healing expressed metaphorically by the name of the Sun of Righteousness as before by the name of the Angel or Messenger of the Covenant 4. The means of deriving this healing from this Sun of Righteousness 1. His rising 2. His wings or beams which are the Vehicula of all the light and vertue which flow eth forth from him 5. The proper and peculiar Subject of this Healing singled out by way of gracious compellation unto you that fear my name 6. The effects and fruits of this Healing and they are three 1. Going forth as recovered men use to do out of their bed or chamber when the Sun shineth in a warm and beautifull day to take the aire and refresh themselves 2. Grewing up in stature in strength speedily as fatted C●…lves luxuriating in a full and pleas●…nt pasture 3. Treading down and crushing the wicked as Grapes in the Press as ashes under their Feet in a full and triumphant victory I shall handle the words thus distributed after a double manner 1. In the spiritual proper and theological sense of them as they are a promise of Christ and H●…aling by him to an afflicted remnant of men that fear Go●…s name 2. In an Applicatory and particular sense as they are suitable to the present solemnity and occasion 1. The Church of God was at this time in a most defaced and corrupted condition Gods worship prophaned his name blasphemed his treasuries robbed his Judgments que stioned his reproofs despised yet in the midst of all this rubbish there is a Remnant according to the Election of Grace Though the Church be not alwaies visibly Glorious yet in the most collapsed state thereof in the worst times it is ●…ever without visible professors who have stood up to beare witness unto persecuted Truth The Lord had Seven thousand in Israel that had not bowed the knee to Baal When our adversaries challenge us to shew where our Church was before Luther we answer That in the midst of the greatest darkness and superstition there were such fundamentall truths of faith and repentance and holy Life r●…tained as the Lord no doubt did sanctifie to the Salvation of many who lived in the body of the Roman Church and were by their very Ignorance preserved from the dangerous superstructions which the Doctors of that Church built upon that foundation as the Renowned Bishop Usher hath observed 2. There were in no age wanting Holy and zealous men who did boldly appeare against the prevailing Erro●… of the times as our learned men have largely proved in their Historico-polemical writings and large volumes have been written of the Catalogues of such witnesses in every age of the Church who have declared against many Corruptions of the times wherein they lived But that there hath alwaies been a visible conspicuous Glory in the maine Body of the Church is evidently disproved by the persecutions which prevailed from time to time against it How did the Arian Heres●…e overspread the world when such glorious lights is Athanasius and Hilary were persecuted for professing the truth ●…ngemuit totus orbis saith Hierom Arianum se esse miratus est It is not less easie for us to finde out our Religion and the professors thereof in the corrupt ages of the Church then for them to find out theirs in the pure and primitive Sure we are in the worst times the Lord hath ever had a people that feared his name whose hearts he hath by select promises and Comforts supported against the terror of those curses which he hath denounced against the corrupt body of the people Say to the Righteous it shall be well with them Isai. 3. 10. ●…inde the Testimonie seale the Law among my Disciples Isai. 8. 16. There is a remnant according to the election of grace when the rest are blinded Rom. 11. 5. 7. Hence that usuall intermixture of Threats and Promises in the Prophets as a president ●…nto Preachers of the truth in all ages who ought with such prudence and tendernes to manage this part of their Ministry as neither to harden the wicked in their sins by undue application of mercy nor to make sad the hearts of those whom the Lord hath not ●…ade sad by a promis●…uous denunciation of wrath but righ●…ly to divide the word of truth ●…nd to give to every one their own portion 2. Nor must we here pass by unobserved that discriminating Grace of God whereby the Jewels and the Stubble the Godly for healing and the wicked for burning are distinguished the one from the other The Lord indeed doth most righteously dispence both healing to those that feare him according to the Grace of his covenant and burning to those that hate him according to the Justice of his Law And it is true the wicked make thems●…lvs fit for the burning for their destruction is of themselves Hos. 13. 9. Their way and their doings have procured it Jer●… 4. 18. it is a choice of their owne making Isai. 66. 3. But they that are healed are not the Authors or originall procurers either of the grace whereby they fear God or of the merc●… wherby God heales them God alone by his free Grace makes the difference between those that serve him and those that serve him not He reveales to babes what he hides from the wise and prudent and that because it seems good to him Math. 11. 25. 26. To you it is given to them it is not given Math 13. 11. I●… is n●… of him that willeth ●…nor of him that runeth but of God that sheweth mercy Rom. 9 16 If I be one of that Remnant that feare Gods name I have no reason to glory in my selfe it is God that gives me an heart and away to feare him Ier. 32. 39. It is by his grace that I am what I am 1 Cor. 15. 10. It is he that works in me to will and to