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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
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Secondly, Faith having thus revealed to our hearts the Love of God in Christ, doth kindle in them a reciprocal Love towards Christ again, working in us the same mind that is in Christ, Phil. 2. 5. and inflaming our spirits to a retribution of Love for Love. We have believed the Love that God hath to us, saith the Apostle, and therefore, saith he, we love Him because He loved us first. 1. Joh. 4. 16, 19. Thus Faith worketh Love.
Secondly, Faith having thus revealed to our hearts the Love of God in Christ, doth kindle in them a reciprocall Love towards Christ againe, working in us the same minde that is in Christ, Phil. 2. 5. and enflaming our spirits to a retribution of Love for Love. We have beleeved the Love that God hath to us, saith the Apostle, and therefore, saith he, we love Him because He loved us first. 1. Ioh. 4. 16, 19. Thus Faith worketh Love.
But now thirdly there is a further power in Faith, for it doth not only work Love, but it worketh by Love as the text speaks: that is, it maketh use of that Love which it hath thus kindled, as of a goad and incentive to further obedience; for that Love which we repay unto Christ again, stirreth us unto an intimate and Heavenly communion with Him, unto an entire and spiritual conformity unto Him. And the reason is, because it is a conjugal Love, and therefore a fruitful love, for the end of marriage is fructification. Ye are become dead to the Law, saith the Apostle, by the body of Christ, that ye should be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, and the end of this spiritual marriage is added, That we should bring forth fruit unto God, which ⟨p. 487⟩is presently after expounded, That we should serve in newness of Spirit,