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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
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Lastly, they fill the heart with fear of forgoing them; and fear takes of the heart from any thoughts save those which look upon the matter of our fear: ⟨p. 61⟩when men who make Gold their Confidence hear that they must forsake all for Christ, and are sometimes haply put upon a trial, they start aside, choose rather securely to enjoy what they have present hold of, then venture the interruption of their carnal contentments for such things, the beauty where of the Prince of this world hath blinded their eyes that they should not see. For certainly till the mind be settled to believe that in God there is an ample recompense for any thing which we may otherwise forgo for him, it is impossible that a man should soundly embrace the love of the truth, or renounce the love of the world.
Lastly, they fill the heart with feare of forgoing them; and feare takes of the heart from any thoughts save those which looke upon the matter of our feare: ⟨p. 61⟩when men who make Gold their Confidence heare that they must forsake all for Christ, and are sometimes haplie put upon a triall, they start aside, choose rather securely to enjoy what they have present hold of, then venture the interuption of their carnall contentments for such things, the beauty where of the Prince of this world hath blinded their eyes that they should not see. For certainly till the minde be setled to beleeve that in God there is an ample recompence for any thing which wee may otherwise forgoe for him, it is impossible that a man should soundly embrace the love of the truth, or renounce the love of the world.
Secondly, as They Fill, so they Swell the Heart too, and by that means work in it a contempt and disestimation of the simplicity of the Gospel. We have both together in the Prophet, According to their pasture so1 were they Filled; they were filled, and their heart was Exalted, therefore have they forgotten me. Now the immediate child of Pride is self-dependence and a reflection on our own sufficiency, and from thence the next issue is a contempt of the simplicity of that gospel which would drive us out of our selves. The Gentiles out of the pride of their own wisdom counted the Gospel of