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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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Lastly, in good duties whereas grace should be ever quick and operative, make us conformable to our head, walk worthy of our high calling, and as becometh godliness, as men that have learned and received Christ, how much unprofitableness, unspiritualnesse, distractions, formality, want of relish, failings, intermissions, deadness, uncomfortableness do show themselves? How much flesh with spirit, how much wantonness with grace, how much of the world with the word, how much of the week in the Sabbath, how much of the bag or barn in the Temple? how much superstition with the worship? how wuch security with the fear? how much vain-glory in the honour of God? in one word, How much of my self, and therefore how much of my sin, in all my services and duties which I perform? These and a world the like aggravations serve to lay open the life of actual sins.
Lastly, in good duties whereas grace should bee ever quick and operative, make us conformable to our head, walke worthy of our high calling, and as becommeth godlinesse, as men that have learned and received Christ, how much unprofitablenesse, unspiritualnesse, distractions, formality, want of rellish, failings, intermissions, deadnesse, uncomfortablenesse do shew themselves? How much flesh with spirit, how much wantonnesse with grace, how much of the world with the word, how much of the weeke in the Sabbath, how much of the bag or barne in the Temple? how much superstition with the worship? how wuch security with the feare? how much vaine-glory in the honour of God? in one word, How much of my selfe, and therefore how much of my sinne, in all my services and duties which I performe? These and a world the like aggravations serve to lay open the life of actuall sinnes.
Thus have I at large opened the first of the three things proposed, namely, that the spirit by opening the Rule doth convince men that they are in the state of sin, both original and actual.
Thus have I at large opened the first of the three things proposed, namely, that the spirit by opening the Rule doth convince men that they are in the state of sin, both originall and actuall.