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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.
He is but like a prisoner, shackled peradventure in fetters of Gold, but he shall be brought forth to the day of wrath, and though he could rise out of the grave before Christs tribunal, as Agag appeared before Samuel delicately clothed, yet the sword should cut him in pieces, and bitterness should overtake him. Thus we see how infinitely unable the Creature shall be to shelter a man from the tribunal of Christ, and how wise, just, and wonderful the Lord is in the administration of the World in bearing with patience the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction, and suffering them to muster up his own blessings against himself.
He is but like a prisoner, shackled peradventure in fetters of Gold, but he shall be brought forth to the day of wrath, and though he could rise out of the grave before Christs tribunall, as Agag appeared before Samuel delicately clothed, yet the sword should cut him in pieces, and bitternesse should overtake him. Thus wee see how infinitely unable the Creature shall bee to shelter a man from the tribunall of Christ, and how wise, just, and wonderfull the Lord is in the administration of the World in bearing with patience the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction, and suffering them to muster up his owne blessings against himselfe.
Lastly, this must serve for a needful Caution to us, to ⟨p. 52⟩take heed of deifying the Creatures▪ and attributing that Immortality to them which they are not capable of. But1 in as much as they are only for present refreshment in this vale of misery, and have no matter of real and abiding happiness in them, not to look on them with an admiring or adoring eye, but to use them with such due correctives as become such mortal and mean things.
Lastly, this must serue for a needfull Caution to us, to ⟨p. 52⟩