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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.
if he be so strong, and lift so hard, as to move the stone, it shall fall upon him, and grind him to powder. Let us not resolve to baffle the ministers, and to despise their message; (It is a sin that leaves no remedy for a man,1 to throw away the physic, to trample under foot the plaster that should heal him) Let us not think to blow away the Words of God as if they were but so much empty wind; for the Lord saith that they shall become 2fire, to devou•e the adversaries; Let us not distinguish Scripture to our own humours, nor accept or reject Gods Truth as will best▪consist with our own resolutions; but as it is the power of the Word to Captivate3 even rebellious thoughts to the obedience of Christ; so let us resolve to accept of every one of Gods righteous Commandments, and to hate every false way, to hear Christ and his Ministers in all things, to answer to Gods severest calls, even then when they make us tremble ⟨p. 181⟩and do astonish us, as Saint Paul did, Lord what wilt 4thou have me to do? Even when the word affrights thee, yet give this honour to it, not to reject it, nor fly from it, not to smother and suppress it, but to endure it to search thee, and to submit thy self unto it. This is a notable way to abate the Original madness which is in thy heart.
if he be so strong, and lift so hard, as to move the stone, it shall fall upon him, and grinde him to powder. Let us not resolve to baffle the ministers, and to despise their message; (It is a sinne that leaves no remedy for a man,1 to throw away the physicke, to trample under foote the playster that should heale him) Let us not thinke to blow away the Words of God as if they were but so much empty winde; for the Lord saith that they shall become 2