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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
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Fourthly, Promises are the efficient causes of our purification, as they are the Rays and Beams of Christ the Sun of Righteousness, in whom they are all founded and established. They are All in him Yea, and in him 1Amen. Every promise by faith apprehended carries a man to Christ, and to the consideration of our unity with him, in the right whereof we have claim to the Promises; even as every line in a circumference, though there never so distant from other, doth, being pursued, carry a man at last to one and the same Centre, common unto them all. For the Promises are not made for any thing in us, nor have their stability in us, but they are made in and for Christ unto us, unto Christ in our behalf, and unto us only so far forth as we are members of Christ. For they were not made to seeds as many, but to seed, namely 2to Christ, in aggregato, as comprehending the head and the members in the unity of one body. So then every Promise carrying us to that Unity which we have with Christ by his spirit (who is therefore called a spirit of Adoption, because he vesteth us with the sonship of Christ, and a spirit of holiness and renovation, because he sanctifieth us by the resurrection of Christ) doth thereby purify us from dead works, and conform the members 3to the Head, building them up in an holy Temple and into an habitation of God through that spirit by whom we are in Christ. In one word, Our interest in the Promises is grounded upon our being in Christ, and being one with him; and our being in him is the ground of our purification. Every branch in me that bringeth forth fruit, my father purgeth, that it may bring forth more fruit. And4 in this respect the promises may be said to purify, as still ⟨p. 346⟩carrying us to our interest in Christ, in whom they are founded.
Fourthly, Promises are the efficient causes of our purification, as they are the Raies and Beames of Christ the Sunne of Righteousnesse, in whom they are all founded and established. They are All in him Yea, and in him