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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.
But what then? M•st nothing be preached but damnation and Hell to men? God forbid. We have commission to preach nothing but Christ and life in him: and therefore we never preach the Law, but with reference and manuduction unto him. The truth is, Intentionally we preach nothing but Salvation; we come with no other intention but that every man who hears us might believe and be saved; we have our power only for edification, and not for destruction: but conditionally we preach Salvation and Damnation. He that believeth 1shall be saved, he that believeth not shall be damned; that is the sum of our Commission. But it is further very observable in that place that preaching of the Gospel is preaching both of Salvation, and of Damnation upon the several conditions. So then, when we preach the Law, we preach Salvation to them that fear it: (as the Lord showed mercy to Josiah because his heart trembled, and2 humbled it sel•e at his Law) and when we preach the Gospel, we preach Damnation to them that desp•se it. How sh•ll we escape, if we neglect so great Salvation. The Gospel3 is Salvation of it self, but he that neglects Salvation is the m•re certain to perish; and that with a double destruction, Death unto Death, to that wrath of God4 which ab•deth upon him before, will come a sorer condemnation, by trampling under foot the blood of the Covenant, and not obeying the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But what then? M•st nothing be preached but damnation and Hell to men? God forbid. We have commission to preach nothing but Christ and life in him: and therefore we never preach the Law, but with reference and manuduction unto him. The truth is, Intentionally wee preach nothing but Salvation; wee come with no other intention but that every man who heares us might beleeve and bee saved; wee have our power onely for edification, and not for destruction: but conditionally we preach Salvation and Damnation. He that beleeveth