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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.
Secondly, The Law was not published by Moses on mount Sinai (as it was given to Adam in Paradise) to justi▪ fie or to save men. God never appoints any thing to an end to which it is utterly unsurable and improper: Now1 the Law by sin is become weak and unprofitable to the purpose of righteousness or salvation; nay it was in that regard Against us, as Saint Paul saith; and therefore we are delivered from it as a Rule of justification, though not as a rule of service and obedience.
Secondly, The Law was not published by Moses on mount Sina (as it was given to Adam in Paradise) to iusti▪ fie or to save men. God never appoints any thing to an end to which it is utterly unsurable and improper: Now1 the Law by sinne is become weake and unprofitable to the purpose of righteousnesse or salvation; nay it was in that regard Against us, as Saint Paul saith; and therefore we are delivered from it as a Rule of justification, though not as a rule of service and obedience.
Thirdly, The uses of the Law are several according to divers considerations of it. For we may consider it either Per se, in it self, according to the primary intention thereof in its being and new publication; or Per accidens, according to those secondary and inferior effects thereof. By accident or secondarily, The Law doth, first, *irritate, enrage, exasperate lust, by reason of the venomous and malicious quality which is in sin. And this the Law doth not by ingenerating or implanting lust in the heart, but by exciting, calling out, and occasioning that which was there before; as a chain doth not beget any fury in a wolf, nor a bridge infuse any strength into the water, nor the presence of an enemy instill or create de novo any malice in a man, but only occasionally reduce unto Act, and call forth that rage which though less discerned, was yet habitually there before.