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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.
Now then since the Conviction of sin, and of the death and Guilt thereof are not to drive men to despair or blasphemy, but that they may believe and lay hold on the righteousness of Christ, which they are then most likely to do, when sin is made exceeding sinful, and by consequence death exceeding deadly; give me leave to set forth in two words what this Guilt of sin is, that the necessity of righteousness from Christ may appear the greater, and his mercy therein be the more glorified.
Now then since the Conviction of sinne, and of the death and Guilt thereof are not to drive men to despaire or blasphemie, but that they may beleeve and lay hold on the righteousnesse of Christ, which they are then most likely to doe, when sinne is made exceeding sinfull, and by consequence death exceeding deadly; give mee leave to set forth in two words what this Guilt of sinne is, that the necessitie of righteousnesse from Christ may appeare the greater, and his mercie therein bee the more glorified.
Guilt is the Demerit of sin, binding and subjecting the person in whom it is to undergo all the punishments legally due the reunto. This Demerit is founded not only in the Constitution, Will, and Power of God over his own Creatures, of whom he may justly require whatsoever obedience he giveth power to perform, but in the nature of his own Holiness and Justice, which in sin is violated and turned from: and this Guilt is after a sort Infinite, because it springeth out of the aversion from ⟨p. 263⟩an Infinite Good, the violation of an infinite Holiness and Justice, and the Conversion to the Creatures infinitely, if men could live ever to commit adultery with them. And as the Consequence and reward of obedience was the favour of God, conferring life and blessedness to the Creature, so the wages of sin, which this1 Guilt assureth a sinner of, is the wrath of God, which the Scripture calleth Death and the Curse.