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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.
These are the comforts which may secure the Life of Christ, in a lapsed but repenting sinner: the sum of all is this. Since we stand not, like Adam, upon our own ⟨p. 454⟩bottom, but are branches of such a Vine as never withers, Members of such a Head as never dies, sharers in such a Spirit as cleanseth, healeth, and purifieth the heart, partakers of such promises as are sealed with the Oath of God: Since we live not by our own life, but by the Life of Christ; are not led or sealed by our own spirit, but by the Spirit of Christ; do not obtain mercy by our own prayers, but by the Intercession of Christ; stand not reconciled unto God by our own endeavours, but by the propitiation wrought by Christ, who loved us when we were enemies and in our blood; who is both willing and able to save us to the uttermost, and to preserve his own mercies in us; to whose eoffice it belongs to take order that none who are given unto him be lost; undoubtedly that Life of Christ in us, which is thus underpropped, though it be not privileged from temptations, no nor from fbackslidings, yet is an abiding Life: He who raised gour Soul from death, will either preserve our feet from falling, or, if we do fall, hwill heal our backslidings, and will save us freely.
These are the comforts which may secure the Life of Christ, in a lapsed but repenting sinner: the summe of all is this. Since we stand not, like Adam, upon our owne ⟨p. 454⟩bottome, but are branches of such a Vine as never withers, Members of such a Head as never dies, sharers in such a Spirit as cleanseth, healeth, and purifieth the heart, partakers of such promises as are sealed with the Oath of God: Since we live not by our owne life, but by the Life of Christ; are not ledde or sealed by our owne spirit, but by the Spirit of Christ; doe not obtaine mercie by our owne prayers, but by the Intercession of Christ; stand not reconciled unto God by our owne endevours, but by the propitiation wrought by Christ, who loved us when wee were enemies and in our blood; who is both willing and able to save us to the uttermost, and to preserve his owne mercies in us; to whose