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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.
This preciousness of Faith is seen chiefly in two respects. First, in regard of the Objects, and secondly, in regard of the Offices of it. First Faith hath the most precious and excellent object of any other, Christ and his Truth, and promises. Herein, saith the Apostle, God commended His Love, in that when we were sinners Christ died, Rom. 5. 8. This was the sovereign and most excellent love token and testification of divine favour that ever was sent from Heaven to men. God so loved the world, so superlatively, so beyond all measure or apprehension, that He gave His Son, Joh. 3 16. There is such a compass ⟨p. 477⟩of all dimensions in Gods love manifested through Christ, such a height and length, and breadth, and depth, as makes it exceed all knowledge, Eph. 3. 18, 19. It is exceeding & unsearchable riches. In one word that which1 faith looks upon in Christ is the price, the purchase, and the promises which we have by Him. The price which made satisfaction unto God; the purchase which procured Salvation for us; and the promises which comfort and secure us in the certainty of both; and all these are precious things, The blood of Christ, precious blood: 1. Pet. 1. 18. The promises of Christ, precious promises: 2. Pet. 1. 4. And the purchase of Christ, a very exceeding and abundant weight of Glory. 2. Cor. 4. 17. But it may be objected, Have not other Graces the same object as well as Faith? Do we not love Christ, and fear Him, and hope in Him, and desire Him, as well as Believe in2 Him? True indeed, but herein is the excellency of Faith, that it is the first grace which looks towards Christ.