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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.
and the reason is because between fire and hardness there is but a particular opposition in some cases, namely where a thing is hard out of a dominion of cold as in metals, not out of a dominion of dry qualities as in brick and stones; but between fire and coldness there is an universal opposition. So a natural conscience may peradventure serve to dissolve or weaken, in regard of outward practice some sins, but never All; whereas a spiritual reacheth to the remitting and abating every lust▪ because the one is only a particular the other an universal opposition Thirdly, the natural conscience fights against sin with fleshly weapons, and therefore is more easily overcome by the subtlety of Satan, such as are servile fear, secular ends, carnal disadvantages, general reason, and the like; but the spiritual conscience ever fights with spiritual weapons out of the Word, Faith, Prayer, Hope, Experience Watchfulness, Love, godly Sorrow, Truth of heart &c.
and the reason is because betweene fire and hardnesse there is but a particular opposition in some cases, namely where a thing is hard out of a dominion of cold as in mettals, not out of a dominion of dry qualities as in bricke and stones; but betweene fire and coldnesse there is an universall opposition. So a naturall conscience may peradventure serve to dissolve or weaken, in regard of outward practice some sinnes, but never All; whereas a spirituall reacheth to the remitting and abating every lust▪ because the one is onely a particular the other an universall opposition Thirdly, the naturall conscience fights against sinne with fleshly weapons, and therefore is more easily overcome by the subtiltie of Satan, such as are servile feare, secular ends, carnall disadvantages, generall reason, and the like; but the spirituall conscience ever fights with spirituall weapons out of the Word, Faith, Prayer, Hope, Experience Watchfulnesse, Love, godly Sorrow, Truth of heart &c.
Fourthly, they differ in their Effects. First, a natural ⟨p. 317⟩