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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
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Thirdly, In Differences upon private conversation, look to your hearts, give not the reins too much to anger or displeasure, to suspicions or misconstructions of your neighbours person or courses: give not the water passage no not a little. Be Angry, saith the Apostle, but 1sin not, let not the sun go down upon your wrath. It is not a Precept; for such Anger as is required of us by way2 of duty the Sun may safely go down upon; nor is it a pardon for anger when we fall into it, to take of the inordinateness of it; but it is a speech by way of concession, or unavoidable supposition. It cannot be but that the Saints themselves upon several occasions and provocations will be overtaken with anger, but yet though their infirmity break forth into the passion, let not pride & self love harden that passion into a habit, let them be wary that the flame grow not upon them to set them on fire, Give no place to the Devil. The longer a man continues in anger, the more room the Devil hath to get in upon him, & enrage him. Anger is the kernel and seed of malice, if it be let lie long in the heart, that is so fertile a soil, and Satan so diligent a waterer of his own plants, that it will quickly grow up into a knotty and stubborn hatred. We read of hatreds ⟨p. 175⟩which have run in the blood, and have been entailed, Hereditary malice, as the Historian calls it, Hatreds which3 have survived the parties, and discovered themselves in their very funerals, Hatreds which men have bound upon their posterity by oaths, as Hasdrubal took a solemn oath of Hannibal that he should be an irreconcilable enemy to Rome. And what do all such expressions import, but that there is a boundless frenzy in the flesh of men, a fierceness which no laws can tame, and that there is enough of it in the best men, to break out into implacable affections, if grace, and prayer, and watchfulness do not prevent it.
Thirdly, In Differences upon private conversation, looke to your hearts, give not the raines too much to anger or displeasure, to suspicions or misconstructions of your neighbours person or courses: give not the water passage no not a little. Be Angry, saith the Apostle, but