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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, because nature in particular men never knew, nor had experience of a better estate, and therefore must needs be ignorant of that full Image in which it was created, and unto which it ought still to be conformable. As a man borne in a dungeon is unable to conceive the state of a Palace, as the Child of a Noble man stolen away, and brought up by some lewd Beggar, cannot conceive, or suspect the honour of his blood: so utterly unable is corrupted nature, that hath bin borne in a womb1 of ignorance, bred in a hell of uncleanness, enthralled from the beginning to the prince of darkness, to conceive,2 or convince a man of that most holy and pure condition in which he was created, the least deviation where-from is sin unto him.
Lastly, because nature in particular men never knew, nor had experience of a better estate, and therefore must needs bee ignorant of that full Image in which it was created, and unto which it ought still to be conformable. As a man borne in a dungeon is unable to conceive the state of a Palace, as the Childe of a Noble man stolne away, and brought up by some lewd Begger, cannot conceive, or suspect the honour of his blood: so utterly unable is corrupted nature, that hath bin borne in a wombe1 of ignorance, bred in a hell of uncleannesse, enthrall'd from the beginning to the prince of darkenesse, to conceive,2 or convince a man of that most holy and pure condition in which hee was created, the least deviation where-from is sinne unto him.