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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.
in brimstone on Sodom, in a flaming sword over Jerusalem, in that fearful Star of fire to the Christian World of late years, which hath kindled those woeful combustions, the flames whereof are still so great, as that we our selves, if we look upon the merits and provocations of our sins, may have reason to fear, that not all the Sea between us and our neighbours can be able to quench till it have scorched and singed us. We find likewise by plain experience how languid the seeds ⟨p. 41⟩of life, how faint the vigour either of heavenly influences, or of sublunary and inferior agents are grown, when that life of men, which was wont to reach to almost a thousand years, is esteemed even a miraculous age, if it be extended but to the tenth part of that duration. We1 need not examine the inferior Creatures, which we find expressly cursed for the sin of man with Thorns and Briers (the usual expression of a curse in Scripture.) If we but open our eyes and look about us, we shall see what pains Husbandmen take to keep the earth from giving up the Ghost, in opening the veins thereof, in applying their Soil and Marl as so many Pills or Salves, as so many Cordials and preservatives to keep it alive, in laying it asleep, as it were, when it lieth fallow every second or third year, that by any means they may preserve in it that life, which they see plainly approaching to its last gasp.
in brimstone on Sodome, in a flaming sword over Ierusalem, in that fearefull Starre of fire to the Christian World of late yeeres, which hath kindled those woful combustions, the flames whereof are still so great, as that wee our selves, if wee looke upon the merits and provocations of our sinnes, may have reason to feare, that not all the Sea betweene us and our neighbours can bee able to quench till it have scorched and singed us. Wee find likewise by plaine experience how languid the seeds ⟨p. 41⟩of life, how faint the vigor either of heavenly influences, or of sublunary and inferiour agents are growne, when that life of men, which was wont to reach to almost a thousand yeeres, is esteemed even a miraculous age, if it be extended but to the tenth part of that duration. We1