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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soule, whereby hee Iudg. 14.6. Iudg. 6.34. cometh mightily, and as it were cloatheth a man with power and courage, are of a very secret nature, and notwithstanding the power thereof bee so great, yet there is nothing in apparance but Matth. 10.20. 2 Pet. 1.21. a voyce, (of all other one of the most empty and vani∣shing things.) As Dew fals in small and insensible drops, and as a Childe is borne by slow and undiscerned pro∣gresses (as the Prophet David saith, Psal. 139.14. Iob 10.10, 11.Fearefully and wonderfully am I made,) Such is the birth of a Christian unto Christ, by a secret, hidden, and inward call, Voca∣tione Altâ, as S. Austen calleth it, by a deepe and inti∣mate energie of the Spirit of grace is Christ formed, and the soule organized unto a spirituall being. A man heares a voyce, but it is Esai. 30.21. Act. 9.8. behinde him, hee seeth no man; hee feels a blow in that voyce, which others take no notice of, though externally they heare it too. Therefore it is observable that the men which were with Paul at his miraculous conversion are in one place said to heare a voyce, Act. 9.7. and in another place, not to have heard the voyce of him that spake unto Paul, Act. 22.9.Glass. Philolog. Sacr. lib. 2. pag. 232. They heard onely a voyce, and so were but astonished, but Paul heard it distinctly as the voyce of Christ, and so was converted.Note 4. As it is a Divine and secret, so is it likewise a sudden birth. In naturall generations the more vast the creature, the more slow the production, an Elephant ten years in the wombe. In humane actions magnarum re∣rum tarda molimina, great workes move like great en∣gines slowly & by leasure to their maturity: but in spiri∣tuall generations, Children are borne unto Christ like Dew, which is exhaled, conceived, formed, produced, and all in one night. Paul to day a Woolfe, to morrow a Sheepe, to day a Persecutor, to morrow a Disciple, and not long after an Apostle of Christ. The Nobleman of Samaria could see no possibility of turning a famine into a plentie within one night: neither can the heart of a 0