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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.
98 What it is to set the heart on the Creature. 99 The spirit is the most tender and delicate part of man. 100 A heart set on the world is without strength• Passive or Active: 1. Unable to bear temptations: 1. Because Satan proportioneth temptations to our lusts. 101 2. Because temptations are edged, with promises and threatenings. 105 3. God often gives wicked men over to believe lies. 107 2. Unable to bear afflictions. 108 3. Unable to perform any active obedience with strength 110 How to use the Creature as a vexing Creature. 113
98 What it is to set the heart on the Creature. 99 The spirit is the most tender and delicate part of man. 100 A heart set on the world is without strength• Passive or Active: 1. Vnable to beare temptations: 1. Because Satan proportioneth temptations to our lusts. 101 2. Because temptations are edg'd, with promises and threatnings. 105 3. God oftē gives wicked mē over to belieue lies. 107 2. Vnable to beare afflictions. 108 3. Vnable to performe any active obedience with strength 110 How to use the Creature as a vexing Creature. 113
The second Treatise. The sinfulness of Sin.ROM. 7. 9. Natural light not sufficient to understand the Scriptures. 118 How the Commandment came to Saint Paul, and how he was formerly without it. 119 A man may have the Law in the Letter, and be without it in the Power and Spirit. 121 Ignorance doth naturally beget blind zeal, and strong mispersuasions. 122 Saving knowledge is not of our own fetching in. The Spirit by the Commandment convinceth a man to be in the state of sin. 123 Nature teacheth some things, but it cannot thoroughly convince. 125 The Spirit convinceth: first, by opening the Rule, which is ⟨image 5⟩the Law. 129 The strength of sin twofold to Condemn us. Operate or stir in us. It hath the strength of a Lord. 129 Husband. 129 How sin hath its life and strength from the Law by the Obligation. of it. 130 Irritation. of it. 130 Conviction. of it. 130 The Spirit by the Commandment convinceth us, 1. Of Original sin; either imputed, as Adams sin. 134 Or inherent, as the corruption of Nature. 135 In natural corruption consider, 1. The universality of it in Times. 136 Persons. 136 Parts. 136 Corruption of the Mind. 139 the Conscience and Heart. 140 the Will. 141 the Memory and whole man. 142 2. The closeness and adherency of it to nature. 143 How the body of sin is destroyed in this life. 144 Why God suffereth the remainders of corruption in us. 147 3. The contagion of it on our best works. 149 4. The fruitfulness of it bringing fruit suddenly. 151 continually. 151 desperately. 151 unexpectedly. 151 5. The temptations of it. 155 6. The war and rebellion of it. 157 7. The wisdom and policies of it. 161 8. The strength and power of it. 164 9. The madness of it, and that twofold: 1. Fierceness and rage. 167