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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.
From this Union of the faithful unto Christ doth immediately arise a Communion with Him in all such good things as he is pleased to Communicate. I will but touch them, it having been the subject of this discourse hitherto.
From this Vnion of the faithfull unto Christ doth immediately arise a Communion with Him in all such good things as he is pleased to Communicate. I will but touch them, it having been the subject of this discours hitherto.
First, we have a Communion with Him in His merits, lwhich are as fully imputed unto us for Justification, as ⟨p. 469⟩if His sufferings had been by us endured, or the debt by us satisfied. As we find in the body medicines often applied unto sound parts, not with relation to themselves, but to cure others which are unsound; In a distillation of •hewmes on the eyes, we cup and scarify the neck which was unaffected, to draw back the humour from the part distempered: even so Christ the glorious and innocent Head of a miserable and leprous body suffered Himself to be wounded and crucified; to wrestle with the wrath of His Father; to be One with a wretched people in the condition of their infirmities, as He was with His Father in the unity of divine holiness; that so by his infirmity being joined unto us, the Communion of His purity might join us unto God again. aHe alone without any demerit of His suffered our punishment, that we without any merit of ours might obtain His Grace. bThe pains of Christs wounds were His, but the profit ours; the holes in His hands and side were His, but the balm which issued out was ours; the thorns were His, but the Crown was ours: in one word, the price which He paid was His, but the Inheritance which He purchased was ours. All the ignominy and agony of His Cross was infinitely unbeseeming so honourable a Person as Christ, if it had not been necessary for so vile a sinner as man.