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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.
Every purpose, desire, Imagination, incomplete and inchoate notion, every figment, so the word properly signifies (with reference1 whereunto the Apostle, as I conceive, calls sin The creature of the Heart, and our Saviour, the Issue of the Heart) is evil, only evil, continually evil. Original sin is an entire body, an old man (which word noteth not the impotency or defects, but the maturity, wisdom, cunning, covetousness, full growth of that sin in us;) and in this man, every member is earthly, sensual, and devilish. As there is chaff about every corn in a field, saltness in every drop of the sea, bitterness in every branch of wormwood, so is ehere sin in every faculty of man. First, look into the mind: you shall find it full of vanity, wasting and wearying it self in childish, impertinent, unprofitable notions. Full of ignorance and darkness, no man knoweth, nay no man hath so much knowledge as to enquire or seek after God in that way where he will be found; nay more, when God breaks in upon the mind by some notable testimony from his Creatures, Judgements, or providence, yet they like it not, they hold it down, they reduce themselves back again to foolish hearts, to reprobate and undiscerning minds, as naturally as hot water returns to its former coldness. Full of Curiosity, Rash unprofitable enquiries, foolish and unlearned questions profane babblings, strife of words perverse disputes, all the fruits of corrupt and rotten minds. Full of Pride and contradiction against the Truth oppositions of science, that is, setting up of philosophy and vain deceit, Imaginations, thoughts, fleshly reasonings against the spirit and truth which is in Jesus. Full of domesticall Principles, 2fleshly wisdom, humane Inventions contrivances,3 super-inducements upon the precious foundation, of rules and methods of its own to serve God and come to happiness. Full of Inconsistency and roving, swarms of empty ⟨p. 140⟩and foolish thoughts, slipperiness, and unstableness in all good motions.
Every purpose, desire, Imagination, incomplete and inchoate notion, every figment, so the word properly signifies (with reference