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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.
But do we then make God the Author of sin? God for bid. In sin we may consider the execution and committing of it as it is sin, and this is only from man, for every man is drawn away and enticed by his own lust: and the Ordination of it as it is a Punishment; and this may be from God, whose hand in the just punishment of sin by sin in obstinate, contemptuous, impenitent sinners may thus far be observed.
But doe we then make God the Author of sinne? God for bid. In sinne we may consider the execution and committing of it as it is sinne, and this is onely from man, for every man is drawne away and enticed by his owne lust: and the Ordination of it as it is a Punishment; and this may be from God, whose hand in the just punishment of sinne by sinne in obstinate, contemptuous, impenitent sinners may thus farre be observed.
First, Deserendo, by forsaking them, that is, taking1 away his abused gifts, subtracting his despised Graces; calling in and making to retire his quenched and grieved spirit, removing his candlestick, and silencing his Prophets, and giving a bill of divorce that either they may not see, nor hear at all, or hearing they may not understand, and seeing they may not perceive, because they did not see nor hear when they might.
First, Deserendo, by forsaking them, that is, taking1 away his abused gifts, subtracting his despised Graces; calling in and making to retire his quenched and grieved spirit, removing his candlesticke, and silencing his Prophets, and giving a bill of divorce that either they may not see, nor heare at all, or hearing they may not understand, and seeing they may not perceive, because they did not see nor heare when they might.