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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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Thus then we see in the general, That saving faith is an assent created by the word & spirit. We must note further that this knowledge is two fold, first, General, mental, speculative, and this is simply necessary, not as a part of saving faith, but as a medium, degree, & passage thereunto.1 For how can men believe without a teacher? Secondly, particular, practical, Applicative, which carries the soul to Christ and there •ixeth it. •o whom shall we go? 2thou hast the words of eternal life; we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ. I know that my Redeemer 3liveth. That ye being rooted and grounded in Love, may be able to comprehend, and to know the Love of Christ. I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave 4himself for me. By his knowledge shall my righteous 5servant justify many. This saving knowledge must b•e commensurate to the object known, and to the ends for which it is instituted, which are Christ to be made ours for righteousness and salvation. Now Christ is not proposed as an object of bare and naked truth to be assented unto, but as a Sovereign and saving truth to do good unto men. He is proposed, as the Desire of all flesh. It is6 the heart which believes; With the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and Christ dwelleth by faith in the7 heart; If thou believest with all thine heart thou mayest be 8baptized. And the h•art doth not only look for truth but for goodness in the objects which it desireth, for an all-sufficiency and adequate ground of full satisfaction to the appetites of the soul; such a compass of goodness as upon which the whole man may test, and rely, and