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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.
Secondly, sin is a Husband, Rom. 7. 1. 5. and so it hath the power of love, which the wise Man saith, is as strong as death, that will have no denial when it comes. S. Paul tells us, there is a constraining power in love, 2. Cor. 5. 14. Who stronger then Sampson, and who weaker then a woman? yet by love she overcame him, whom all the Philistims were unable to deal with. Now as between a man and a strumpet, so between lust and the heart, there are first certain cursed dalliances and treaties, by alluring temptations, the heart is drawn away from the sight of God and his Law, and enticed and then follows the accomplishment of uncleannesse. Jam. 1. 14. 15. This in the general is that life or strength of sin here spoken of.
Secondly, sinne is a Husband, Rom. 7. 1. 5. and so it hath the power of love, which the wise Man saith, is as strong as death, that will have no deniall when it comes. S. Paul tels vs, there is a constraining power in love, 2. Cor. 5. 14. Who stronger then Sampson, and who weaker then a woman? yet by love she overcame him, whom all the Philistimes were unable to deale with. Now as betweene a man and a strumpet, so betweene lust and the heart, there are first certaine cursed dalliances and treaties, by alluring temptations, the heart is drawne away from the sight of God and his Law, and enticed and then followes the accomplishment of uncleannesse. Iam. 1. 14. 15. This in the generall is that life or strength of sinne here spoken of.
We are next to observe, that the ground of all this is the Law: The sting of Death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law,