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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.
It followeth vers 16. Now to Abraham and his seed were the Promises made, he saith not, and to seeds as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.] Where by One, we understand one mystically and in aggregato, ⟨p. 376⟩not personally or individually; and by Christ, the whole Church, consisting of the Head and Members, as he is elsewhere taken. 1 Cor. 12 12. Now these words do further ratify the stability of the Covenant; for though a Covenant be in it self never so constant and irreversible, yet if all the parties which have interest in or by it should cease, the Covenant would of it self by consequence expire and grow void: but here, as the covenant is most constant in regard of the wisdom, and unvariablenesse of him that made it, so it can never expire for want of a •eede to whom it is made; for as long as Christ hath a Church, and Members upon earth, so long shall the Promise be of force.
It followeth vers 16. Now to Abraham and his seede were the Promises made, he saith not, and to seedes as of many, but as of one, and to thy seede, which is Christ.] Where by One, we understand one mystically and in aggregato, ⟨p. 376⟩not personally or individually; and by Christ, the whole Church, consisting of the Head and Members, as he is elsewhere taken. 1 Cor. 12 12. Now these words doe further ratifie the stabilitie of the Covenant; for though a Covenant bee in it selfe never so constant and irreversible, yet if all the parties which have interest in or by it should cease, the Covenant would of it selfe by consequence expire and grow voyde: but here, as the covenant is most constant in regard of the wisedome, and unvariablenesse of him that made it, so it can never expire for want of a •eede to whom it is made; for as long as Christ hath a Church, and Members upon earth, so long shall the Promise be of force.