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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 Dead Legally, quoad Regnum, in regard of the dominion and government of it, in regard of the vigorous operation which is in it. First, sin is condemned, Rom. 8. 3. and therein destinated, and designed to death, It shall fully be rooted out. Secondly, in the mean time, it is disabled from a plenary Rule over the conscience, though the Christian be molested and pestered with it, yet he doth not henceforth serve it, nor become its instrument, to be subject in every motion thereof, as the weapon is to the hand that holds it: but Christ and his love bear the sway, and hold the Sterne in the heart, Rom. 6 6. […]. Cor. 5. 14, 15. 1. Pet. 4. 1, 2.
Secondly, sinne is Dead Legally, quoad Regnum, in regard of the dominion and government of it, in regard of the vigorous operation which is in it. First, sinne is condemn'd, Rom. 8. 3. and therein destinated, and design'd to death, It shall fully bee rooted out. Secondly, in the meane time, it is disabled from a plenarie Rule over the conscience, though the Christian be molested and pester'd with it, yet he doth not henceforth serve it, nor become its instrument, to bee subject in every motion thereof, as the weapon is to the hand that holds it: but Christ and his love beare the sway, and hold the Sterne in the heart, Rom. 6 6. 〈…〉. Cor. 5. 14, 15. 1. Pet. 4. 1, 2.
Thirdly, the sentence of the Law against sin is already in execution. But we are to note, that sin though condemned to die, yet (such is the severity of God against it) it is adjudged to a lingering death, a death upon the Cross: