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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.
upon which consideration the holy man breaks forth into this pious ⟨p. 153⟩complaint, Ubi Domine, quando Domine, where ever was the place, O Lord; when ever was the time, O Lord, that I have been an Innocent Creature? Secondly, consider how continually it brings forth, even every day, Gen. 6. 5. or all the day long, as fast as the Sun begets swarms of vermin, or the fire sparkles. Thirdly, consider how desperately it breaks forth: When thou seest a man wallow like a beast in his own vomit, dart out blasphemies against heaven, revile the Gospel of Salvation, tear the blessed name of God in pieces with abhorred and hideous oaths; Cain murdering his brother, Judas betraying his master, Ananias lying to the Holy Ghost, Lucian mocking the Lord Jesus as a crucified Impostor, Julian darting up his blood against heaven in hatred of Christ, the Scribes and Pharisees blaspheming the holy spirit, then reflect on thy self, and consider that this is thine own image, that thou hast the same root of bitterness in thy self, if the Grace of God did not hinder and prevent thee. As face answereth unto 1face in water, renders the self same shape, colour, lineaments, proportion; so the Heart of man to man, every man may in any other mans hart see the complete image, deformities, uncleanness of his own. Suppose we Two Acorns of a most exact and geometrical equality in seminal virtue, planted in two several places of as exact and uniform a temper of earth, needs must they both grow into trees of equal strength and […], unless the benignity and influences of heaven do come differently upon them. Our case is the same, we are all naturally cast into one mould, all equally partake the self same degrees and proportions of original lusts, our harts equally by nature fruitful in evil; If then we proceed not to the same compass and excess of riot with other men, we must not attribute it to our selves, or any thing in our natures, as if we had made our selves to differ; but only to the free and blessed influences of the Grace of ⟨p. 154⟩Christ, and his Spirit which bloweth where it listeth.
upon which consideration the holy man breakes forth into this pious ⟨p. 153⟩