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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
THE SINFULNESS OF SIN. › THE REIGN OF SIN.THE SINFVLNESSE OF SINNE. › THE RAIGNE OF SINNE.
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.
After the doctrine of the state and guilt of sin, It will be needful for the further Conviction thereof (that sin may appear exceeding sinful) to show in the next place the Power and the Reign of sin; from which the Apostle in this place dehorteth us.
AFter the doctrine of the state and guilt of sinne, It will be needefull for the further Conviction thereof (that sinne may appeare exceeding sinfull) to shew in the next place the Power and the Raigne of sinne; from which the Apostle in this place dehorteth us.
Having in the former Chapter set forth the doctrine of Justification, with those many comfortable fruits and effects that flow from it, he here passeth over to another head of Christian Doctrine, namely Sanctification, and Conformity to the holiness of Christ, the ground whereof he maketh to be our Fellowship with him in his death and Resurrection: for Christ carried our sins upon the Tree with him, and therefore we ought with him to die daily unto sin, and to live unto God. This is the whole ⟨p. 273⟩argument of the precedent parts of the Chapter, and frequently elsewhere used by the Apostle, and others, 2. Cor. 5. 14, 15. Gal. 2. 20. 3. 27. 5. 24. Ephes. 2. 6. Phil. 3. 10. Col. 2. 12. 13. 26. 3. 1. 4. Heb. 9. 14 1. Pet. 4. 1. 2. Now the words of the Text are as I conceive a Prolepsis, or answer to a tacit objection which might be made. A weak Christian might thus allege, If our fellowship in the death of Christ do bring along with it a death of sin in us, then surely I have little to do with his death; For alas sin is still alive in me, and daily bringeth forth the works of life. To this the Apostle answers, Though sin dwell in you, yet let it not reign in you, nor have its wonted hold and power over you.