A10659:102
Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulness of sin. The life…Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life…
Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulness of sin. The life of Christ. Being the substance of several sermons preached at Lincolns Inn: by Edward Reynolds, preacher to that honourable society, and late fellow of Merton College in Oxford.Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life of Christ. Being the substance of severall sermons preached at Lincolns Inne: by Edward Reynoldes, preacher to that honourable society, and late fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Robert Bostocke, 1631
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The next disproportion is in their Operation, They are vexing and molesting things. Rest is the satisfaction of every Creature, all the rovings and agitations of the Soul are but to find out something on which to rest; and therefore where there is Vexation, there can be no proportion to the soul of man; and Solomon tells us, That All things 1under the Sun are full of labour, more then a man can utter. He was not used as an Instrument of the Holy Ghost to speak it only, but to try it too; the Lord was pleased for that very purpose to confer on him a confluence of all outward happiness, and inward abilities which his very heart could desire, that he at last might discover the utter insufficiency of all created Excellencies to quiet the Soul of man. But if we will not believe the Experience of Solomon, let us believe the authority of him that was greater then Solomon; who hath plainly compared the things and the cares of the earth to Thorns, 2which as the Apostle speaks, Pierce or bore a man thorough with many sorrows.
The next disproportion is in their Operation, They are vexing and molesting things. Rest is the satisfaction of every Creature, all the rovings and agitations of the Soule are but to find out something on which to rest; and therefore where there is Vexation, there can be no proportion to the soule of man; and Salomon tels us, That All things 1under the Sunne are full of labour, more then a man can utter. He was not used as an Instrument of the Holy Ghost to speake it onely, but to trie it too; the Lord was pleased for that very purpose to conferre on him a confluence of all outward happinesse, and inward abilities which his very heart could desire, that he at last might discover the utter insufficiency of all created Excellencies to quiet the Soule of man. But if we will not beleeve the Experience of Salomon, let us beleeve the authority of him that was greater then Salomon; who hath plainely compar'd the things and the cares of the earth to Thornes, 2which as the Apostle speakes, Pierce or bore a man thorough with many sorrowes.
- 1