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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.
Here then the observation which from these words we are to make, (and it is a point of singular and special consequence to understand the use of the Law) is this. That the Law was revived, and promulgated a new on Mount Sinai, by the ministry of Moses, with no other then Evangelical and merciful purposes. It is said in one place, That the Lord hath no pleasure in the death of him that 1dyeth: but it is said in another place, That the Lord delighteth ⟨p. 372⟩in mercy. Which notes, that God will do more for the Salvation, then he will for the damnation of men; He will do more for the magnifying of his mercy, then for the multiplying of his wrath: for if that require it, he will revive and new publish the Law, which to have aggravated the sins, and so doubled the condemnation of men, He would never have done.
Here then the observation which from these words we are to make, (and it is a point of singular and speciall consequence to understand the use of the Law) is this. That the Law was revived, and promulgated a new on Mount Sina, by the ministery of Moses, with no other then Evangelicall and mercifull purposes. It is said in one place, That the Lord hath no pleasure in the death of him that 1dyeth: but it is said in another place, That the Lord delighteth ⟨p. 372⟩in mercie. Which notes, that God will doe more for the Salvation, then he will for the damnation of men; He will doe more for the magnifying of his mercy, then for the multiplying of his wrath: for if that require it, he will revive and new publish the Law, which to have aggravated the sinnes, and so doubled the condemnation of men, He would never have done.