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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.
Look into the will, and you shall find it, First, full of Disability unto any good, It cannot hearken, nor be subject unto the law of God. But there may be weakness where yet there is a good will and affection; not so here, it is Secondly, full of loathing and aversation, It cannot endure to hear or see any thing that is good, casts it behind the back, and turns away the shoulder from it. But there may be a particular nausea or loathing of a thing out of some distemper and not out of antipathy: a man may loath the sight of that in a disease, which at another time he loves. But the will doth not sometimes loath, and sometimes love, but Thirdly, it is full of enmity against that which is good, It looks upon it as a base thing and so ita scorns it, and it looks on it as an adverse thing, and so sets up resolutions tob withstand it, and it looks upon it as an unprofitable thing and soc slights and neglects it. But enmity is seldom so rooted, but that it may be overcome, and a reconciliation wrought; not so here, the fleshly will may be crucified, it will never be reconciled; for Fourthly, it is full of […], and dcontrariety, which is a Twisted enmity (as I may so speak) which cannot be broken. One contrary may expel another, ⟨p. 142⟩but it can never reconcile it. The flesh will never give over the combat, nor forbear its own contumacy and resolutions to persist in evil.
Looke into the will, and you shall finde it, First, full of Disability unto any good, It cannot hearken, nor be subject unto the law of God. But there may be weaknesse where yet there is a good will and affection; not so here, it is Secondly, full of loathing and aversation, It cannot endure to heare or see any thing that is good, casts it behind the back, and turnes away the shoulder from it. But there may be a particular nausea or lothing of a thing out of some distemper and not out of antipathy: a man may loath the sight of that in a disease, which at another time he loves. But the will doth not sometimes loath, and sometimes love, but Thirdly, it is full of enmity against that which is good, It lookes upon it as a base thing and so it