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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.
If it were possible for any member of Christ to stand absolutely in need of the use and service of the whole Creation, All the Creatures in the world should undoubtedly wait upon him, and be appropriated unto him. The Moon should stand still, the Sun go back, the Lions should stop their mouths, the Fire should give over burning, the Ravens should bring him meat, the Heavens should rain down bread, the Rocks should gush out with water, all the Creatures should muster up themselves to defend the Body of Christ. But though no such absolute necessity shall ever be, yet ordinarily we must learn to believe, That those things which God allows us are best suitable to our particular estate, God knowing us better then we do our selves: that as less would haply make us repine, so more would make us full, and lift up our hearts against God, and set them on the world; ⟨p. 29⟩so that All is ours, not absolutely, but subordinately, serviceably according to the exigence of our condition, to the proportion of our faith and furtherance of our Salvation.
If it were possible for any member of Christ to stand absolutely in neede of the use and service of the whole Creation, All the Creatures in the world should undoubtedly waite upon him, and bee appropriated unto him. The Moone should stand still, the Sunne goe backe, the Lions should stop their mouths, the Fire should give over burning, the Ravens should bring him meate, the Heavens should raine downe bread, the Rockes should gush out with water, all the Creatures should muster up themselves to defend the Body of Christ. But though no such absolute necessity shall ever be, yet ordinarily we must learne to beleeve, That those things which God allowes us are best suteable to our particular estate, God knowing us better then we doe our selves: that as lesse would haply make us repine, so more would make us full, and lift up our hearts against God, and set them on the world; ⟨p. 29⟩so that All is ours, not absolutely, but subordinately, serviceably according to the exigence of our condition, to the proportion of our faith and furtherance of our Saluation.