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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.
Now our life is conveyed from Christ unto us. First, by Imputation of His merit, whereby our persons are made righteous and acceptable unto God. Secondly, by Infusion or communion with His Spirit, which sanctifies our nature, and enables us to do spiritual services. For though we exclude works from Justification formally considered; yet we require them of every Justified man; neither doth any Faith Justify but that which worketh by Love, though it justify not under that reason as a working Faith, but under that relative office of receiving and applying Christ. Thirdly, by His Life and Intercession, applying His merits unto us, and presenting our services unto His Father, as lively sacrifices, cleansed from those mixtures of deadness and corruption, which as passing from us did cleave unto them.
Now our life is conveyed from Christ unto us. First, by Imputation of His merit, whereby our persons are made righteous and acceptable unto God. Secondly, by Infusion or communion with His Spirit, which sanctifies our nature, and enables us to doe spirituall services. For though we exclude workes from Iustification formally considered; yet we require them of every Iustified man; neither doth any Faith Iustifie but that which worketh by Love, though it justifie not under that reason as a working Faith, but under that relative office of receiving and applying Christ. Thirdly, by His Life and Intercession, applying His merits unto us, and presenting our services unto His Father, as lively sacrifices, cleansed from those mixtures of deadnesse and corruption, which as passing from us did cleave unto them.
Having thus unfolded our Life by Christ, we are in the last place to inquire into that Propriety which we have unto Christ, which is the ground of the Life we receive from Him. For one thing cannot be the principle and seed of Life unto another, except there be some1 union, and fellowship, which may be the ground of the conveyance: and this is that which the Text call's the having of Christ, which is the same with that of Saint John, To as many as received Him, He gave power to be called the Sons of God. So then there must be a mutual Act, Christ exhibiteth Himself unto us, and we adhere, and dwell in Him; whereby there is wrought a