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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.
First, They are Wounding Thorns; for that which is but a prick in the flesh is a wound in the spirit: because the spirit is most tender of smart: and the wise man calls them Vexation of spirit. The Apostle tells us they beget many sorrows, and those sorrows bring death with1 them. If it were possible for a man to see in one view those oceans of blood which have been let out of mens veins by this one Thorn; to hear in one noise all the groans of those poor men, whose lives from the beginning of the world unto these days of blood wherein we live have been set at sale, and sacrificed to the unsatiable ambition of their bloody rulers; to see and hear the endless remorse and bitter yellings of so many rich and mighty men as are now in hell, everlastingly cursing the deceit and murder of these earthly Creatures, it would easily make every man with pity and amazement to believe, that the Creatures of themselves without Christ to ⟨p. 60⟩qualify their venom and to blunt their edge, are in good earnest Wounding Thorns.
First, They are Wounding Thornes; for that which is but a pricke in the flesh is a wound in the spirit: because the spirit is most tender of smart: and the wise man cals them Vexation of spirit. The Apostle tels us they beget many sorrowes, and those sorrowes bring death with1 them. If it were possible for a man to see in one view those oceans of bloud which have been let out of mens veines by this one Thorne; to heare in one noise all the groanes of those poore men, whose lives from the beginning of the world unto these dayes of blood wherein we live have been set at sale, and sacrificed to the unsatiable ambition of their bloody rulers; to see and heare the endlesse remorse and bitter yellings of so many rich and mighty men as are now in hell, everlastingly cursing the deceite and murther of these earthly Creatures, it would easily make every man with pitty and amazement to beleeve, that the Creatures of themselves without Christ to ⟨p. 60⟩qualifie their venome and to blunt their edge, are in good earnest Wounding Thornes.
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