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.

Title: 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.

Author: Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.

Collection: Early English Books Online

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the joyes of heaven to fill them) with metaphysicall, or mathematicall,. Greg Naz. Orat. 1. 1 Pet. 1.12. or philologicall contemplations, which yet are the highest delicacies which humane reason doth fasten on to delight in? And yet we finde the Angels in heaven, with much greedinesse of speculation stoope downe, and as it were turne away their eyes from that expressesse glory which is before them in heaven, to gaze upon the wonderfull light, and bottomlesse myste∣ries of the Gospell of Christ. In all other learning a De∣vill in hell (the most cursed of all creatures,) doth won∣derfully surpasse the greatest proficients amongst men; but in the learning of the Gospell, and in the spirituall re∣velations and evidences of the benefits of Christ to the soule from thence, there is a knowledge which surpasseth the comprehension of any angell of darknesse; for it is the Spirit of God onely which knoweth the things of God. It was the devillish flout of Iulian the Apostate against Christian Religion,. Greg. Naz. Orat. 3. that it was an illiterate rusti∣citie, and a naked beliefe, and that true polite learning did belong to him and his Ethnick faction; and for that reason he interdicted Christians the use of Schooles and humane learning, as things improper to their beleeving religion (a persecution esteemed by the Ancients as cruel as the other bloudy massacres of his predecessors.) To which slander, though the most learned Father might have justly returned the lye, and given proofes both in the canonicall bookes of holy Scripture, and in the pro∣fessours of that religion, of as profound learning, as in∣vincible argumentation, and as forcible eloquence as in any Heathen Author (for I dare challenge all the Pa∣gan learning in the world to parallel the writings of Cle∣mens of Alexandria, Origen, Iustin, Tertullian, Cyprian, Minutius, Augustine, Theodoret, Nazianzen, and the other champions of Christian Religion against Genti∣lisme) yet he rather chooseth thus to answer, that that authoritie, which the faith he so much derided was built 0