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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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We must note, All the promises are made in Christ; being purchased by his merits, and they are all performed ⟨p. 357⟩in Christ, being administered by his power and office. And in Christ, we must note, there is, first, a will that we should be holy, expressed in his prayer to his father, sanctify them by thy truth. Joh: 17. 17. Secondly, a power 1to execute that will, he is able to save those that come unto God by him; and he quickeneth whom he will. Thirdly, both his will and power are backed and strengthened with authority and an office so to do, for he was sanctified and sealed by his father unto this purpose. Fourthly, he is furnished with Abundance of wisdom to contrive, and of fidelity to employ both his will, power, and office, for fulfilling all Gods promises of grace and mercy. In him there were treasures of wisdom, and he is a merciful and 2faithful high priest. Fifthly, to all this he is further engaged by his consanguinity with us; he is our brother by his sympathy and compassion towards us; he hath felt the weight of sin in the punishment thereof, and the Contradiction of sinners, and lastly by his propriety unto us; he should defraud himself, if he should not fulfil all his promises to the church; for the church is His own house. All the promises are made to Him, in aggregato, with his Church, To the seed of Abraham, that is To Christ, namely to the head and members together. As when any evil befalls the church he is Afflicted; so in all the Advancements of the3 church he is honoured, and, in a sort, further filled; for the church is His fullness. Though as God, as man, as mediator,4 he be full by himself; yet as Head he accounteth himself maimed and incomplete without his members. So that when Christ pleads and prays for the Church he is an Advocate and Intercessor in his own business; for the Affairs of the Church are His.
Wee must note, All the promises are made in Christ; being purchased by his merits, and they are all perform'd ⟨p. 357⟩