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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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but when they proceed to three, and then add a fourth, that is, when they are come to that measure of sin which my patience hath prefixed, then I will hasten my revenge, and not any longer turn away the punishment thereof. In the fourth generation, saith God to Abraham, thy posterity shall come out of the Land where they shall be strangers, and shall inherit this Land, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. There1 is a time when sin grows ripe and full and then the sickle comes upon it. When the Prophet saw a basket of summer fruits, that were so ripe as that they were gathered2 off the tree, (which was a type of the sins of Gods people, which are sooner ripe then the sins of Heathen that knew him not, because they have the constant light and heat of his Word to hasten their maturity) then, saith the Lord, The end is come upon my people, I will not passeby them any more, I will have no more patience towards them. Jeremiah what seest thou? I see 3the rod of an Almond tree. Thou hast well seen, saith the Lord, for I will hasten my Word to perform it. When men hasten the maturity of sin like the blossoms of an Almond tree, (which come soonest out) then saith the Lord will I hasten the Judgements which I have pronounced.4 We read in the Prophet Zechariah of an Ephah, a measure where into all the wickedness of that people, ⟨p. 50⟩figured by a woman, shall be thrown together, and when this measure of sins is full to the brim, then there is a mass of Lead importing the firmness, immutability, and heaviness of Gods Decree and counsel, which seals up the Ephah, never more to have any sin put into it, and then come two women with wind in their wings, which are the executioners of Gods swift and irreversible fury, & carry the Ephah between heaven and earth, intimating the public declaration of the righteous Judgements of God, into the Land of Shinar, to build it there an house, denoting the constant and perpetual habitation of the wicked in that place of bondage whither the wrath of God shall drive them (for building of houses argues an abiding.) Put you in the sickle for the harvest