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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.
A second exposition may be thus. A Mediator is not of One. By One here may haply be understood not one Party▪ but one matter, business, or Covenant. And then the meaning runs thus. As the Lord hath published Two Covenants, A Promise to Abraham, and a Law to Israel, so he hath appointed Two Mediators of those covenants or businesses which he had to communicate to men. Moses the Mediator of the Law (for the Law came by Moses;) and Christ the Mediator of the Promise or better covenant, (For Grace came by Jesus Christ) ⟨p. 382⟩Moses the representative, and Christ the substantial and real Mediator. But now though there be two Covenants, and two Mediators, and they so much in appearance contrary unto one another, as that God may in them seem inconstant, and to have by one cancelled and repented for the other: yet all this while God is One, that is, He is the same in both Covenants, carries the same purpose and intention both in the Law and in the Gospel, namely a benevolence and desire of reconcilement with men.
A second exposition may be thus. A Mediator is not of One. By One here may haply bee understood not one Party▪ but one matter, businesse, or Covenant. And then the meaning runnes thus. As the Lord hath published Two Covenants, A Promise to Abraham, and a Law to Israel, so hee hath appointed Two Mediators of those covenants or businesses which hee had to communicate to men. Moses the Mediator of the Law (for the Law came by Moses;) and Christ the Mediator of the Promise or better covenant, (For Grace came by Iesus Christ) ⟨p. 382⟩Moses the representative, and Christ the substantiall and reall Mediator. But now though there be two Covenants, and two Mediators, and they so much in appearance contrary unto one another, as that God may in them seeme inconstant, and to have by one cancell'd and repented for the other: yet all this while God is One, that is, He is the same in both Covenants, carries the same purpose and intention both in the Lawe and in the Gospell, namely a benevolence and desire of reconcilement with men.