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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.
1. Because it doth not carry a man to the Root, Adams sin, concupiscence, and the corrupted seeds of ⟨p. 126⟩a fleshly mind, reason, conscience, will, &c. Mere nature will never Teach a man to feel the weight and curse1 of a sin committed above five thousand years before himself was borne, to feel the spirits of sin running in his blood and sprouting out of his nature into his life, one unclean thing out of another, to mourn for that2 filthiness which he contracted in his conception, Saint Paul professeth that this could not be learned without the Law.
1. Because it doth not carry a man to the Roote, Adams sinne, concupiscence, and the corrupted seeds of ⟨p. 126⟩a fleshly minde, reason, conscience, will, &c. Meere nature will never Teach a man to feele the waight and curse1 of a sinne committed aboue five thousand yeeres before himselfe was borne, to feele the spirits of sinne running in his bloud and sprouting out of his nature into his life, one uncleane thing out of another, to mourne for that2 filthinesse which he contracted in his conception, Saint Paul professeth that this could not bee learned without the Law.