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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.
1. It deceives or cozens, and therefore use it as if you used it not; use it as a man in a serious business would use a false friend that proffers his assistance, though his protestations be never so fair, yet so employ him as that the business may be done though he should fail thee.
1. It deceives or coozens, and therefore use it as if you used it not; use it as a man in a serious businesse would use a false friend that profers his assistance, though his protestations be never so faire, yet so employ him as that the businesse may be done though he should faile thee.
2. Transversum agit, It carries a man headlong, the lusts of the world are so strong and impetuous, that they are apt to inflame the desires, and even violently to carry away the heart of a man; and for this cause likewise use it as if you used it not, engage your self as little upon it as you can, do as Mariners in a mighty wind, hoist up as few sails, expose as few of thy affections to the rage of worldly lust as may be; beware of being carried where two seas meet, as the ship wherein Paul suffered shipwreck, I mean, of plunging thy self in a confluence of many boisterous and conflicting businesses, least for thine inordinate prosecution of worldly things, the Lord either give thy Soul over to suffer shipwreck in them, or strip thee of all thy lading and tackling, break thine estate all to pieces, and make thee glad to get to Heaven upon a broken plank.
2. Transversum agit, It carries a man headlong, the lusts of the world are so strong and impetuous, that they are apt to enflame the desires, and even violently to carry away the heart of a man; and for this cause likewise use it as if you used it not, engage your selfe as little upon it as you can, doe as Mariners in a mighty winde, h•ise up as few sailes, expose as few of thy affections to the rage of worldly lust as may be; beware of being carried where two seas meet, as the ship wherein Paul suffer'd shipwracke, I meane, of plunging thy selfe in a confluence of many boisterous and conflicting businesses, least for thine inordinate prosecution of worldly things, the Lord either give thy Soule over to suffer shipwracke in them, or strip thee of all thy lading and tackling, breake thine estate all to pieces, and make thee glad to get to Heaven upon a broken planke.