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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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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 of2 Christ foolishness, and mocked those that preached it unto them: and the Pharisees, who were the learned3 Doctors of Jerusalem, when they heard Christ preach against earthly affections, out of their pride and covetousness Derided him as the Evangelist speaks. Nay further4 they stifle the seeds of all nobleness, ingenuity, or common virtues in the lives of men; from whence come oppression, extortion, bribery, cruelty, rapine, fraud, injurious, treacherous, sordid, ignoble courses, a very dissolution of the Laws of nature amongst men, but from the adoration of earthly things, from that Idol of covetousness which is set up in the heart?
Secondly, as They Fill, so they Swell the Heart too, and by that meanes worke in it a contempt and disestimation of the simplicity of the Gospell. 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 selfe-dependence and a reflection on our owne sufficiencie, and from thence the next issue is a contempt of the simplicity of that gospell which would drive us out of our selves. The Gentiles out of the pride of their owne wisedome counted the Gospell of2 Christ foolishnesse, and mocked those that preached it unto them: and the Pharisees, who were the learned