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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 gives us all good things requisite to our condition. Adam was created Lord of his fellow inferior Creatures, invested with propriety to them all. In his fall he made a forfeiture of every good thing which God gave him: In the second Covenant a reconciliation being procured, Faith entitling a man to the Covenant doth likewise re-invest him with the Creatures again. All things, saith the Apostle, are yours, and he opens the title and conveyance of them, you are Christs, and Christ is Gods. 1. Cor. 3. 23. So elsewhere he saith that the living God giveth us all things richly to enjoy, that is, not only the possession but the use of the things, 1. Tim. 6. 17. where by all things we may understand, first the liberty and enlargement of Christians, as it stands in opposition to the pedagogy and discipline of Moses Law, which distinguished the Creatures into clean and unclean, and so by consequence into useful and unuseful; so that now by any immediate tie of conscience we are not prohibited the free enjoyment of any Creature of God. Secondly by all things we understand not all simply, but all requisites; All that in regard of our state and course are necessary to life and godliness. O woman, saith our Saviour, great is thy Faith, Be it unto thee even as thou wilt, Math. 15. 28. This is a large grant to ask what we will and to have promise of obtaining it; but he who promiseth to believers what they will, doth likewise regulate and confine their wills to desire nothing but with subordination to His Will;1 nothing but their own portion, that which is food convenient for them. The heathen man could say, That man hath as much as he desires, who desires nothing but ⟨p. 490⟩what he hath. So we may say of a Christian, he hath indeed whatsoever he will, because God gives him a heart to desire nothing but that which is Gods promise and his own necessity.
Secondly, Faith gives us all good things requisite to our condition. Adam was created Lord of his fellow inferiour Creatures, invested with proprietie to them all. In his fall hee made a forfeiture of every good thing which God gave him: In the second Covenant a reconciliation being procur'd, Faith entitling a man to the Covenant doth likewise re-invest him with the Creatures againe. All things, saith the Apostle, are yours, and hee opens the title and conveyance of them, you are Christs, and Christ is Gods.