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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.
Faith hath two properties (as a Hand) To work and to receive; when Faith purifies the heart, supports the drooping spirits, worketh by love, carries a man through afflictions and the like, these are the works of Faith: when Faith Accepts of righteousness in Christ, and receives Him as the gift of His Fathers Love, when it embraceth the promises a far of, Heb. 11. 13. and lays hold on Eternal Life, 1. Tim. 6. 12. This is the receiving act of Faith. Now Faith justifies not by working (lest the effect should not be wholly of Grace, but partly of Grace, and partly of work, Ephesians, 2. ⟨p. 482⟩8, 9.) but by bare receiving, and accepting or yielding consent to that righteousness, which in regard of working was the righteousness of Christ, Rom. 5. 18. and in regard of disposing, imputing, appropriating unto us, was the righteousness of God, Rom. 3. 21. 1. Cor. 1, 30. Phil, 3. 9. To make the point of Justification by the receiving and not the working of Faith plain, let us consider it by a familiar similitude.
Faith hath two properties (as a Hand) To worke and to receive; when Faith purifies the heart, supports the droaping spirits, worketh by love, carries a man through afflictions and the like, these are the workes of Faith: when Faith Accepts of righteousnesse in Christ, and receives Him as the gift of His Fathers Love, when it embraceth the promises a farre of, Heb. 11. 13. and layes hold on Eternall Life, 1. Tim. 6. 12. This is the receiving act of Faith. Now Faith justifies not by working (lest the effect should not bee wholly of Grace, but partly of Grace, and partly of worke,