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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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For understanding whereof, we must know that it was not God in the Creation, but sin and the curse which attended it, that brought this Vanity and Vexation upon the Creature. God made Every thing in it self very Good, and therefore very fit for the desires of man some way or other to take satisfaction from. As pricks, and quavers, and rests in music serve in their order to commend the cunning of the Artist, and to delight the Ear of the hearer, as well as more perfect notes: so the meanest of the Creatures were at first filled with so much goodness, as did not only declare the glory of God, but in their rank likewise minister content to the mind of man. It was the sin of man that filled1 the Creature with Vanity, and it is the Vanity of the Creature that fills the Soul of man with Vexation. As2 sin makes man come short of Glory, which is the rest of the Soul in the fruition of God in himself; so doth it make him come short of Contentation too, which is the rest of the Soul in the fruition of God in his Creatures. Sin took away Gods favour from the Soul, ⟨p. 3⟩and his Blessing from the Creature. It put bitterness into the Soul that it cannot relish the Creature, and it put Vanity into the Creature, that it cannot nourish nor satisfy the Soul.
For understanding whereof, wee must know that it was not God in the Creation, but sinne and the curse which attended it, that brought this Vanity and Vexation upon the Creature. God made Every thing in it selfe very Good, and therefore very fit for the desires of man some way or other to take satisfaction from. As prickes, and quauers, and rests in musicke serue in their order to commend the cunning of the Artist, and to delight the Eare of the hearer, as well as more perfect notes: so the meanest of the Creatures were at first fill'd with so much goodnesse, as did not onely declare the glory of God, but in their ranke likewise minister content to the minde of man. It was the sinne of man that fill'd1 the Creature with Vanitie, and it is the Vanitie of the Creature that fils the Soule of man with Vexation. As2