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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
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.
Fourthly, It will make our comforts and refreshments ⟨p. 394⟩the sweeter, when they come. The greater the humiliation▪ the deeper the tranquillity. As fire is hottest in the coldest weather: so comfort is sweetest in the greatest extremities; shaking settles the peace of the heart the more. The spirit is a Comforter, as well when he convinceth of sin, as of righteousness and judgement; because he doth it to make righteousness the more acceptable, and Judgement the more beautiful.
Fourthly, It will make our comforts and refreshments ⟨p. 394⟩the sweeter, when they come. The greater the humiliation▪ the deeper the tranquillitie. As fire is hottest in the coldest weather: so comfort is sweetest in the greatest extremities; shaking settles the peace of the heart the more. The spirit is a Comforter, as well when he convinceth of sinne, as of righteousnesse and judgement; because he doth it to make righteousnesse the more acceptable, and Iudgement the more beautifull.
Lastly, acquaintance with our own foulness and diseases by the Law, will make us more careful to keep in Christs company, and to walk according unto his Will; because he is a Physician to cure, a refiner to purge, a Father and a Husband to compassionate our estate. The less beauty or worth there is in us, the more carefully should we study to please him, who loved us for himself, and married us out of pity to our deformities, not out of delight in our beauty. Humility keeps the heart tractable and pliant. As melted wax is easily fashioned, so an humble spirit is easily fashioned unto Christs Image: whereas a stone, a bard and stubborn heart, must be hewed and hammered before it will take any shape. Pride, self-confidence, and conceitedness, are the p•nciples of disobedience; men will hold their wonted courses till they be humbled by the Law. They are not humbled,