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…

and surely so should it be amongst men, though God have given thee an Eminent station in the body, clothed thee with purple and scarlet, and hath set thy poor neighbour in the lowest part of the body, and made him conversant in the dirt, and content to cover himself with leather, yet you are still members of the same common body, animated with the same spirit of Christ, moulded out of the same dirt, appointed for the same inheritance, borne out of the same¹ womb of natural blindness, partakers of the same great and precious promises (there was not one price for the Soul of the poor man, and another for the rich, there is not one table for Christ's meaner guests, and another for his greater, but the faith is a ^aCommon faith, the salvation a ^bCommon salvation, the ^crule a Common rule, the ^dhope a Common hope, one Lord, and one Spirit, and one Baptism, and one God and Father of all; and ^eOne foundation, and ^fOne house, and therefore we ought to have ^gCare and Compassion one of another.

and surely so should it be amongst men, though God have given thee an Eminent station in the body, cloath'd thee with purple and scarlet, and hath set thy poore neighbour in the lowest part of the body, and made him conversant in the dirt, and content to cover himselfe with leather, yet you are still members of the same common body, animated with the same spirit of Christ, moulded out of the same dirt, appointed for the same inheritance, borne out of the same¹ wombe of natural blindnesse, partakers of the same great and pretious promises (there was not one price for the Soule of the poore man, and another for the rich, there is not one table for Christ's meaner guests, and another for his greater, but the faith is a