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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.
Be ye followers of me even as I am of Christ. But lwe must […] pin our obedience to the ⟨p. 412⟩example of any Saint, lest we happen to stumble and break our bones, as they did. Wherefore are the falls and apostasies, the errors and infirmities of holy men in Scripture registered? Certainly, the Lord delighteth not to keep those sins upon record for men to gaze on, which himself hath put behind his own back, and wiped out of the book of his own remembrance. He delighteth not in the dishonour and deformities of his worthies. But mthey are recorded for our sakes, set up for landmarks to warn every man to take heed of adventuring (on any mans authority) upon those rocks where such renowned and noble Saints have before miscarried. Children of light indeed they are, but their light is like the light of the Moon subject to mixtures, wanings, decays, eclipses. Christ only is the Sun of righteousness, that hath a plenitude, indeficiencie, unerring holiness, which neither is deceived, nor can deceive.
Be ye followers of me even as I am of Christ. But lwe must 〈…〉 pinne our obedience to the ⟨p. 412⟩example of any Saint, lest we happen to stumble and breake our bones, as they did. Wherefore are the falls and apostacies, the errors and infirmities of holy men in Scripture registred? Certainely, the Lord delighteth not to keepe those sinnes upon record for men to gaze on, which himselfe hath put behinde his owne backe, and wiped out of the booke of his owne remembrance. Hee delighteth not in the dishonour and deformities of his worthies. But mthey are recorded for our sakes, set up for landmarks to warne euery man to take heed of adventuring (on any mans authority) upon those rockes where such renowned and noble Saints have before miscarried. Children of light indeed they are, but their light is like the light of the Moone subject to mixtures, wainings, decayes, eclipses. Christ onely is the Sunne of righteousnesse, that hath a plenitude, indeficiencie, unerring holinesse, which neither is deceived, nor can deceive.