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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.
When He makes a noise, and disturbs their peace; when He falls heavy upon them, they are sore affrighted, and seem to reverence His Power: but if He suffer their stream to be calm about them, and stir not up His wrath, they securely dance about Him, and re-assume their wonted looseness. Fourthly, it must be cwithout error, for he that errs; cannot consent. If a ⟨p. 467⟩woman take her self upon some absence of her husband to be now free from him, and conceive him dead, and thereupon marry again; if it appear that the 2former husband is yet living, there was a mistake and error in the person, and so a nullity in the contract. So if a man mistake himself, judge himself free from his former tie unto sin and the Law, and yet live in obedience to his lusts still, and is not cleansed from •is filthiness, he cannot give any full consent to Christ, who •ill have a chaste spouse, without adulterers, or corrivals. Lastly, It must gbe an universal and perpetual consent, for all time, and in all states and conditions. This is a great difference between a wife, and a strumpet: A wife takes her husband upon all terms; his burdens, as well as his goods; his troubles, as well as his pleasures: whereas a strumpet is only for hire and lust; when the purse is emptied, or the body wasted, the love is at an end. So here, He that will have Christ, must have Him All; (for Christ is not divided) must entertain Him to all purposes, must follow the Lamb wheresoever He goeth, must leave Father, Mother, Wife, Children, his own life for Christ; must take as well His Yoke, as His Crown; as well His Sufferings, as His Salvation; as well His Grace, as His Mercy; as well His Spirit to lead, as His Blood to redeem. He that will be his own Master to do the works of his own will, must, if he can, be his own Saviour too, to deliver his soul from the wrath to come.
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