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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.
These words we see contain a Doctrine of the greatest consequence to the Soul of Man in the whole Scriptures, and that which is indeed the sum of them all. They contain the sum of mans desires, Life, and the sum of Gods mercies, Christ, and the sum of mans duty, Faith; Christ the Fountain, Life the Derivation, and Faith the Conveyance.
These words we see containe a Doctrine of the greatest consequence to the Soule of Man in the whole Scriptures, and that which is indeede the summe of them all. They containe the summe of mans desires, Life, and the summe of Gods mercies, Christ, and the summe of mans dutie, Faith; Christ the Fountaine, Life the Derivation, and Faith the Conveyance.
Whatsoever things are excellent and desirable, are in the Scripture comprised under the name of Life, as the lesser under the greater; for Life is better then meat, and the body then ray meant. And whatsoever Excellencies can be named, we have them all from Christ. In Him, saith the Apostle, are bid the treasures of wisdom 1and knowledge. H•d, not to the purpose that they may not be found, but to the purpose that they may be sought. And we may note from the expression, that Christ is a Treasurer of his Fathers Wisdom; He hath Wisdom, as the Kings treasurer hath wealth, as an Officer, a Depositary, a Dispenser of it to the friends and servants of his father. aHe is made unto us Wisdom. The Apostle saith that in him there are bunsearchable riches, an inexhausted treasury of Grace and Wisdom. And there had need be a treasure of riches in him, for there is a treasure of sin in us: so our Saviour calls it, cthe treasure of an evil heart. d