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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.
Secondly, nay but Satan is a more powerful, subtle, deep, wily, working adversary then the world. Where shall I have protection and security against him? I answer, in that promise to man, and curse to the Serpent; eThe seed of the woman shall bruise thy head, and thou ⟨p. 440⟩shalt bruise his heel. He thy Head, He shall tear out thy sting, and crush thy projects and machinations against his Church, but thou only His heel; the vital parts shall be above thy reach. And this Christ did not for himself, but for us. fThe God of Peace, saith the Apostle, shall bruise Satan under your feet. He shall be under our feet, but it is a greater strength then ours which shall keep him down. The victory is Gods, the benefit and insultation ours. If He come as a Serpent with cunning craftiness to seduce us, Christ is a stronger Serpent, a Serpent of Brass; and what hurt can a Serpent of flesh do unto a Serpent of Brass? If as a Lion, with rage and fiery assaults: Christ is a stronger Lion, A Lion of the Tribe of Jud•, the victorious Tribe. gWho shall go up for us against the Canaanites first? Judah shall go up. If he come as an Angel of light to persuade us to presume and sin; The hmercy of Christ begets fear: The iLove of Christ constraineth us. Satan can but allure to disobedience, but Christ can constrain us to live unto him. If he come as an Angel of darkness to terrify us with despairing suggestions, because we have sinned: kIf any man sin, we have an Advocate; and lwho shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect? It is Christ that is dead, yea rather that is risen again, who also sitteth at the right hand of God, to make intercession for us.