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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 USE OF THE LAW.THE SINFVLNESSE OF SINNE. › THE VSE OF THE LAW.
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.
ROM. 7. 13. Was that then which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin [namely was made death unto me] that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good: That sin by the Commandment might become exceeding sinful.
ROM. 7. 13. Was that then which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sinne [namely was made death unto me] that it might appeare sinne, working death in me by that which is good: That sinne by the Commandement might become exceeding sinfull.
Here we find the Original discovery of all that Sinfulness of sin which we have hitherto insisted upon, namely the manifesting, and working property which is in the Law of God. It will be therefore very requisite by way of Appendix to the preceding Treatise, and of manuduction to the consequent, to unfold out of these words The u•e of the Law; by which we shall more distinctly understand the scope and purpose of the Holy Ghost, in loading the spirit of man with t•e vanity of the Creature, and in shutting up the conscience under the sinfulness of sin; both which have ⟨p. 368⟩respect unto the Law, that as an effect of the cursing, and this of the Convincing power thereof: and yet in both nothing intended by God but Peace and Mercy.
HEre we finde the Originall discovery of all that Sinfulnesse of sinne which wee have hitherto insisted upon, namely the manifesting, and working property which is in the Law of God. It will bee therefore very requisite by way of Appendixe to the preceding Treatise, and of manuduction to the consequent, to unfeld out of these words The u•e of the Law; by which we shall more distinctly understand the scope and purpose of the Holy Ghost, in loading the spirit of man with te vanity of the Creature, and in shutting up the conscience under the sinfulnesse of sinne; both which have