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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
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Lastly, the Life which we have from Christ is a Safe, an Abiding, an Eternal Life: the longer it continues, the more it abounds. It is such a life as runs not into death. Our earthly life is indeed but a dying and decaying life: but our Spiritual life is a growing life. It is called in the Scripture our abiding in Christ, to note that our estate in him is a fixed, constant and secure estate.
Lastly, the Life which we have from Christ is a Safe, an Abiding, an Eternall Life: the longer it continues, the more it aboundes. It is such a life as runnes not into death. Our earthly life is indeede but a dying and decaying life: but our Spirituall life is a growing life. It is called in the Scripture our abiding in Christ, to note that our estate in him is a fixed, constant and secure estate.
Life can End in Death but upon two reasons; either by an inward principle and propension, carrying it through slow and insensible progresses to a dissolution; or by the assaults and violence of outward oppositions: either it must be a natural or a violent death. Now the life which we have from Christ hath no seeds of mortality in it self, because it comes from Christ: and as he saw no corruption, so nothing that riseth from him doth of it self tend to corruption; for Christ dyeth no more, death hath no more power over him. He now liveth ever; not ⟨p. 439⟩only by himself, but over his members; not only as man, but as a member of his own Body, which Body of it self, and as it is His Body, in that Spiritual and Heavenly Constitution, and under that denomination can no more die, then Christ suffer again. For the Body of Christ, quà tale, hath no seeds of corruption in it from him. For the Apostle saith, that the seed by which we are regenerated is aIncorruptible seed.
Life can End in Death but upon two reasons; either by an inward principle and proponsion, carrying it through slow and insensible progresses to a dissolution; or by the assaults and violence of outward oppositions: either it must be a naturall or a violent death. Now the life which we have from Christ hath no seedes of mortalitie in it selfe, because it comes from Christ: and as hee saw no corruption, so nothing that riseth from him doth of it selfe tend to corruption; for Christ dyeth no more, death hath no more power over him. He now liveth ever; not