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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.
So then Punishment is an evil or pressure of the Creature, proceeding from a Law giver just and powerful, inflicted on a reasonable Creature for and proportionable unto the breach of such a Law, unto the performance and obedience whereof the Creature was originally enabled, wherein is intended the glory of Gods just displeasure and great power against sin, which he naturally hateth. Now these punishments are Temporal, Spiritual, and Eternal. Temporal, and those first without a man, The vanity of the Creatures, which were at1 first made full of goodness and beauty, but do now mourn and groan under the bondage of our sins. The wrath of God revealing it self from heaven, and the curse of God over-growing the earth. Secondly, within him,2 All the Harbingers and Fore-runners of death, sickness, pain, poverty, reproach, fear, and after all death it self. For though these things may be where there is no guilt imputed, and so properly no punishment inflicted (neither the blind man nor his parents had sinned, that he was borne blind) as in the same ship there may be a malefactor and a Merchant, and to the one the voyage is a traffic, to the other a banishment; yet to the wicked ⟨p. 265⟩where they are not sanctified, they are truly punishments, and fruits of Gods vindicative justice, because they have their sting still in them. For the sting of death is sin.
So then Punishment is an evill or pressure of the Creature, proceeding from a Law giver just and powerfull, inflicted on a reasonable Creature for and proportionable unto the breach of such a Law, unto the performance and obedience whereof the Creature was originally enabled, wherein is intended the glory of Gods just displeasure and great power against sinne, which hee naturally hateth. Now these punishments are Temporall, Spirituall, and Eternall. Temporall, and those first without a man, The vanitie of the Creatures, which were at1 first made full of goodnesse and beautie, but doe now mourne and grone under the bondage of our sinnes. The wrath of God revealing it selfe from heaven, and the curse of God over-growing the earth. Secondly, within him,