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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▪ this comes from the just and secret wrath of God, giving men over to the deceitfulness of sin, and to the hardness of their own hearts, to believe the lies1 and allurements of Satan, because they rejected the counsel of God, and the love of his truth before. In the ⟨p. 106⟩influences of the Sun we may observe, that the deeper they work the stronger they work; the beams nearer the Centre meeting in a sharper point do consolidate and harden the very Element; so the Creatures by the justice of God, when they meet in a mans Centre, reach as far as his heart, do there mightily work to the deceiving and hardening of it: the eye, nor any other outward sense, can find no more in the Creature, then is really there; it is the heart which mis-conceives things, and attributes that Deity and worth to them, which the senses could not discover. If men then could keep these things from their spirits, they should ever conceive of them according to their own narrow being, and so keep their hearts from that hardness which the Creatures, destitute of Gods blessing, do there beget, and so work in the soul a disposition suitable to Satan's temptations.
Lastly▪ this comes from the just and secret wrath of God, giuing men over to the deceitfulnesse of sinne, and to the hardnesse of their owne hearts, to beleeve the lies1 and allurements of Satan, because they rejected the counsell of God, and the love of his truth before. In the ⟨p. 106⟩influences of the Sunne we may observe, that the deeper they worke the stronger they worke; the beames nearer the Center meeting in a sharper point doe consolidate and harden the very Element; so the Creatures by the justice of God, when they meete in a mans Center, reach as farre as his heart, doe there mightily worke to the deceiving and hardning of it: the eye, nor any other outward sense, can finde no more in the Creature, then is really there; it is the heart which mis-conceives things, and attributes that Deity and worth to them, which the senses could not discover. If men then could keepe these things from their spirits, they should ever conceive of them according to their owne narrow being, and so keepe their hearts from that hardnesse which the Creatures, destitute of Gods blessing, doe there beget, and so worke in the soule a disposition suteable to Satans temptations.