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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.
it notes how the fierceness of a greedy and unsatiable desire will wear out the strength of a man, make him spend all his wits, and even gasp out his spirits, in pursuing the poor unto the dust, ⟨p. 67⟩sucking out their very livelihood and substance, till they are fain to lye down in the dust. Woe unto him, saith1 the Prophet, that increaseth that which is not his, enlarging his desires as Hell and death, that loadeth himself 2with thick clay, that is in other expressions, that storeth up violence and robbery, that heapeth treasures against the last day; the words show us what the issue of vehement and indefatigable affections is, they do but create vexations to a mans own soul, and all his wealth will at length lye upon his conscience like a load and mountain of heavy earth.
it notes how the fiercenesse of a greedy and unsatiable desire will weare out the strength of a man, make him spend all his wits, and even gaspe out his spirits, in pursuing the poore unto the dust, ⟨p. 67⟩sucking out their very livelihood and substance, till they are faine to lye downe in the dust. Woe unto him, saith1 the Prophet, that encreaseth that which is not his, enlarging his desires as Hell and death, that loadeth himselfe 2with thick clay, that is in other expressions, that storeth up violence and robbery, that heapeth treasures against the last day; the words shew us what the issue of vehement and indefatigable affections is, they doe but create vexations to a mans owne soule, and all his wealth will at length lye upon his conscience like a load and mountaine of heavy earth.
- 1Habak. 2. 6.
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