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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.
Time is short, that is, That time which the Lord hath spread over all things like a sail, hath now this five thousand years been rolling up, and the end is now at hand, as S. Peter speaks; the day is approaching1 when time shall be no more. And so the words in the original will well bear it, [Greek or Hebrew], The Remainder of time is short, or time is short for so much as yet remaineth of it to be folded up, and therefore we ought so to behave our selves as men that have more serious things to consider of, as men that are very near to that everlasting haven, where there shall be no use of such sails any more. And in the Apostles close the same reason is farther yet enforced: For the fashion of this world passeth away. [Greek or Hebrew] The figure, intimating that there is nothing of any firmness or solid consistency in the Creature; it is but a surface, an outside, an empty promise, all the beauty of it is but skin-deep; and then ⟨p. 55⟩that little which is desirable and precious in the eyes of men (which the Apostle calls, The lust of the world, 1. Joh. 2. 17.) [Greek or Hebrew], It passeth away, and is quickly gone. The word, as the learned differently render it, hath three several Arguments in it to express the Apostles exhortation.
Time is short, that is, That time which the Lord hath spread over all things like a saile, hath now this five thousand yeeres been roling up, and the end is now at hand, as S. Peter speakes; the day is approaching1 when time shall be no more. And so the words in the originall will well beare it, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, The Remainder of time is short, or time is short for so much as yet remaineth of it to be folded up, and therefore we ought so to behave our selves as men that have more serious things to consider of, as men that are very neere to that everlasting haven, where there shall be no use of such sailes any more. And in the Apostles close the same reason is farther yet enforced: For the fashion of this world passeth away. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 The figure, intimating that there is nothing of any firmenesse or solid consistencie in the Creature; it is but a surface, an outside, an empty promise, all the beauty of it is but skinne-deepe; and then