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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.
Now lastly, in the words of the Text the Apostle shows the aptness of the promises to cleanse and purify, and that therefore they to whom they are made do misemploy and neglect them, if they purify not themselves from all that filthiness of flesh and spirit which by communion with the wicked they were apt easily to contract.
Now lastly, in the words of the Text the Apostle shewes the aptnesse of the promises to clense and purifie, and that therefore they to whom they are made do misimploy and neglect them, if they purifie not themselves from all that filthynesse of flesh and spirit which by communion with the wicked they were apt easily to contract.
I shall not trouble you with any division of the words, but observe out of them the point I have proposed, Touching the pollution and filthiness of sin,▪ and infer other things in the Text by way of corollary and application unto that.
I shall not trouble you with any division of the words, but observe out of them the point I have proposed, Touching the pollution and filthinesse of sinne,▪ and inferre other things in the Text by way of corolarie and application unto that.
The wise man saith That God made all things beautiful in their time, and then much more man, whom he created after his own Image in righteousness and holiness with an universal harmony & rectitude in soul and body. He never said of any of the Creatures, Let u• make it after our o•ne Image as he did of Man, and yet the Creatures have no more beauty in them, then th•y have footsteps of the power, wisdom, and goodness of him that made them. How much more beautiful