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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.
Who lastly have also the Altar of Christ to receive, the Incense of Christ to perfume, the Name and Intercession of Christ to present our Prayers unto God by, who have Christ sanctifying, and, as I may so speak, praying our prayers unto hi• Father for us; as we read of the Angel of the Covenant, who had a golden Censer 1and much incense, to offer up the Prayers of the Saints, which was nothing else but the mediation of Christ bearing the iniquity of our holy things, as Aaron was appointed2 to do; nothing but his intercession for us at the right3 hand of his Father. I say, how much more reason •ave we, then any Gentile could have, to consecrate all our enterprises with Prayer unto God? Humbly to acknowledge how justly he might blast all o•r businesses, and make us labour in the fire; that unless he keep the City the watchman watcheth but in vain; that unless he build the house their labour is in vain that build it; that unless he give the increase, the planting of Paul, and the watering of Apollo are but empty breath; that it is only his blessing on the diligent hand which maketh rich without any sorrow; that unless he be pleased to favour our attempts, neither the plotting of our heads, nor the solicitousness of our hearts, •or the drudgery of our hands, nor the whole concurrence of our created strength, nor any accessory assistances which we can procure will be able to bring to pass the otherwise most obvious and feasible Events: and therefore to implore his Direction ⟨p. 31⟩in all our counsels, his concurrence with all our Actions, his blessing on all our undertakings, and his glory as the sole end of all that either we are or do. For by this means we do First acknowledge our dependency on God as the first cause, and give him the glory of his sovereign Power and Dominion over all second agents, in acknowledging4 that without him we can do nothing, and the power of God is the Ground of Prayer. Secondly, by this means we put God in mind of his Promises, and