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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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Nay look even upon Corrupted nature, and yet there we shall still discover this restlessness of the mind of man, though in an evil way, to promote it self: whence arise distractions of heart, thoughts for to morrow, rovings and inquisitions of the soul after infinite varieties of earthly things, swarms of lusts, sparkles of endless thoughts, those secret flowings, and ebbs, and tempests, and Estuations of that sea of corruption in the heart of man, but because it can never find any thing on which to rest, or that hath room enough to entertain so ample and so endless a guest? Let us then look a little into the particulars of that great disproportion and Insufficiency of any or all the Creatures under the sun to make up an adequate and suitable Happiness for the soul of man.
Nay looke even upon Corruptednature, and yet there we shall still discover this restlesnesse of the minde of man, though in an evill way, to promote it selfe: whence arise distractions of heart, thoughts for to morrow, rovings and inquisitions of the soule after infinite varieties of earthly things, swarmes of lusts, sparkles of endlesse thoughts, those secret flowings, and ebbes, and tempests, and Estuations of that sea of corruption in the heart of man, but because it can never finde any thing on which to rest, or that hath roome enough to entertaine so ample and so endlesse a guest? Let us then looke a little into the particulars of that great disproportion and Insufficiencie of any or all the Creatures under the sun to make up an adequate and suteable Happinesse for the soule of man.
Solomon here expresseth it in Two words, Vanity and Vexation. From the first of these we may observe a threefold disproportion between the Soul and the ⟨p. 9⟩Creatures. First in regard of their nature and worth, they are base in comparison of the Soul of man: When David would show the infinite distance between God and man in power and strength, he expresseth the baseness of man by his vanity, To be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter then vanity. Psal. 62. 9