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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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Secondly, this Impotency is seen in this, that the good things they do cannot fully please God by themselves, but stand in need of further purification from Christ, and pardon from God; Even when we are Children we must be spared, and borne withal, Mal. 3. 17. Deut. 1. 31.
Secondly, this Impotencie is seene in this, that the good things they doe cannot fully please God by themselves, but stand in neede of further purification from Christ, and pardon from God; Even when wee are Children we must be spared, and borne withall, Mal. 3. 17. Deut. 1. 31.
The use which we should make of this point is first to keep us Humble, in regard of this thorn in our flesh, which disables us to do any good, and when we have done our uttermost, yet still makes us unprofitable servants. Lay together these considerations.
The use which we should make of this point is first to keepe us Humble, in regard of this thorne in our flesh, which disables us to doe any good, and when wee have done our uttermost, yet still makes us unprofitable servants. Lay together these considerations.
First, remember the long time that thou wert utterly barren, and didst live nothing but a life of sin, how much of the flower of thine age hath bin dedicated unto Satan, and thine own lusts; how thy childhood & youth hath been all vanity; and why think we did God require the first fruits in the Law, but to show that we were all his, and therefore that he ought to have the first and best of our life devoted unto him, and submitted unto his yoke.