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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.
The Apostle in the beginning of the Chapter shows that we are by nature subject to the Law, and death, which is an unavoidable consequent of the breach thereof, even as the wife is to her husband as long as he liveth. And that by Christ we are delivered from that subjection, who hath shine our former husband, and taken him out of the way, as the Apostle elsewhere speaks. Now1 because this doctrine of justification by faith in Christ, and deliverance from the Law by him, was mainly opposed by the Jews, and was indeed that chief stumbling block which kept them from Christianity (which2 I take it was the reason why the false brethren, under pretence the better to work on that people, to pacify affections3 and reconcile parties, and ferruminate the Churches together would have mingled the Law with Christ in the purpose of Justification, as the papists now upon other reasons do:) Therefore the Apostle (who was very zealous for the Salvation of his brethren and kinsfolk according to the flesh) labours to deer th•s doctrine from two main objections in this Chapter, which it seems the Jews did use against it.
The Apostle in the beginning of the Chapter shewes that we are by nature subject to the Law, and death, which is an unavoidable consequent of the breach thereof, even as the wife is to her husband as long as he liveth. And that by Christ we are delivered from that subjection, who hath shine our former husband, and taken him out of the way, as the Apostle elsewhere speakes. Now1 because this doctrine of justification by faith in Christ, and deliverance from the Law by him, was mainely opposed by the Iewes, and was indeed that chiefe stumbling blocke which kept them from Christianitie (which2 I take it was the reason why the false brethren, under pretence the better to worke on that people, to pacifie affections3 and reconcile parties, and ferruminate the Churches together would have mingled the Law with Christ in the purpose of Iustification, as the papids now upon other reasons doe:) Therefore the Apostle (who was very zealous for the Salvation of his brethren and kisfolke according to the flesh) labours to deer ths doctrine from two maine objections in this Chapter, which it seemes the Iewes did use against it.