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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.
Let us see in some few particulars what impotency unto any good the Creatures bring upon the hearts of men. To Pray requires a hungry spirit, a heart convinced of its own emptiness, a desire of intimate communion with God; but now the Creature draws the heart, and all the desires thereof to it self, as an ill spleen doth the nourishment in a body. Lust makes men pray amiss,1 fixeth the desires only on its own provisions, makes a man unwilling to be carried any way towards heaven but his own. The Young Man prayed unto Christ to show him the way to eternal life; but when Christ told2 him that his riches, his covetousness, his bosom lust stood between him and salvation, his prayer was turned into sorrow, repentance and apostasy.
Let us see in some few particulars what impotency unto any good the Creatures bring upon the hearts of men. To Pray requires a hungry spirit, a heart convinc'd of its owne emptinesse, a desire of intimate communion with God; but now the Creature drawes the heart, and all the desires thereof to it selfe, as an ill splene doth the nourishment in a body. Lust makes men pray amisse,1 fixeth the desires onely on its owne provisions, makes a man unwilling to be carried any way towards heaven but his owne. The Young Man prayed unto Christ to shew him the way to eternall life; but when Christ told2 him that his riches, his covetousnes, his bosome lust stood betweene him and salvation, his prayer was turned into sorrow, repentance and apostacy.