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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.
Many excellent points, and of great consequence to the spirits of men would rise out of these words thus unfolded: as, First, that a man may have the Law in the Church wherein he lives in the letter of it, and yet be without the Law in the power and spirit of it by ignorance, misconstructions, false glosses, and perverse wrestings of it; as a covetous man may have the possession of money, and yet be without the use and comforts of it. 2. Cor. 3. 6. 2. P•t. 3. 16. Matth. 5. 21. 22. 27. 28. 31. 32. 33. 38.
Many excellent points, and of great consequence to the spirits of men would rise out of these words thus unfolded: as, First, that a man may have the Law in the Church wherein he lives in the letter of it, and yet bee without the Law in the power and spirit of it by ignorance, misconstructions, false glosses, and perverse wrestings of it; as a covetous man may have the possession of monie, and yet be without the vse and comforts of it. 2. Cor. 3. 6. 2. P•t. 3. 16. Matth. 5. 21. 22. 27. 28. 31. 32. 33. 38.
Which should teach us to beware of Ignorance; It makes the things which we have unuseful to us. If any man have the Law indeed he will labour First to have more acquaintance with it, and with God by it. The more the Saints know of God and his will, the nearer communion do they desire to have with him. We see this heavenly affection in Jacob. Gen. 32. 26. 29. Gen. 49. 18