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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.
And though the Apostle did most earnestly desire to be with Christ, yet ⟨p. 86⟩he did in the same desire decline the common rode thither through the dark passages of death, 2. Cor. 5. 4. Unlawful indeed it is for any man to pray universally against death, because that were to withstand the Statutes of God, Heb 9. 27. but against any particular danger we may; as Hezekiah did, 1. King. 20. 1, 2. reserving still a general submission to the will and decrees of God. For we are bound in such a case to use all good means, and to pray for Gods blessing upon them, which amounts to a prayer against the danger it self. So then, by the Rule of contraries, though the Creatures be full of vanity and vexation, yet this must not swallow up the apprehension of that goodness which God hath put into them, nor put off the desires of men from seeking them of God in those just prayers which he hath prescribed, and in those lawful endeavours which he hath commanded and allowed.
And though the Apostle did most earnestly desire to be with Christ, yet ⟨p. 86⟩he did in the same desire decline the common rode thither through the darke passages of death, 2. Cor. 5. 4. Vnlawfull indeed it is for any man to pray universally against death, because that were to withstand the Statutes of God, Heb 9. 27. but against any particular danger wee may; as Ezechiah did, 1. King. 20. 1, 2. reserving still a generall submission to the will and decrees of God. For we are bound in such a case to use all good meanes, and to pray for Gods blessing upon them, which amounts to a prayer against the danger it selfe. So then, by the Rule of contraries, though the Creatures be full of vanitie and vexation, yet this must not swallow up the apprehension of that goodnesse which God hath put into them, nor put off the desires of men from seeking them of God in those just prayers which he hath prescribed, and in those lawfull endeavours which he hath commanded and allowed.