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Three Treatises

by Edward Reynolds

Three weighty treatises from a seventeenth-century Bishop and scholar. The first expounds the vanity of the creature from Ecclesiastes, showing that nothing under the sun can satisfy the immortal soul. The second lays bare the reign of sin — its dominion, pollution, and the believer's use of law and promise to fight it. The third unfolds the life of Christ as the believer's pattern and power, tracing how union with the risen Savior transforms every dimension of the Christian life. Penetrating, doctrinal, and warmly practical.
Chapters
5
Word count
105,665
Type
Treatise
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Table of contents

  1. 01 The Vanity of the Creature 40,340 words
  2. 02 The Reign of Sin 16,834 words
  3. 03 The Pollution of Sin, and Use of the Promises 16,550 words
  4. 04 The Use of the Law 9,862 words
  5. 05 The Life of Christ 21,776 words
Front matter (2 sections)

Title Page

The Vanity of the Creature, and Vexation of the Spirit:

By Edward Reynolds, Preacher to the Honorable Society of Lincolns Inn.

London, Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Robert Bostock. 1631.

To the Reader

Christian Reader, importunity of friends has overruled me to this publication; and importunity of business crossing me in the putting of these pieces together, has made the whole savor of my distractions, and caused more escapes in the print, than otherwise should have been. The principal I have here corrected; those which are smaller may in the reading be easily discerned.

Page 92, line 17, for Jeroboam, read Jehoshaphat. Page 122, line 16, for dependant, read dependence. Page 130, line 16, for hastened, read hardened. Page 134, line 21, for enticeth, read entitleth. Page 140, line 14, for bow, read bough. Page 148, line 9, for he, read me. Page 159, line 33, for honour in, read honour of God in. Page 167, line 6, blot out the. Page 212, line 15, leave out these. Page 278, line 20, for raging, read reigning. Page 295, line 18, for darkness, read dark. Page 299, line 28, for possessions, read passions. Page 355, line 16, for we, read he. Page 401, line 34, for fulfill, read fulfilled. Page 405, line 26, for terrifire, read testifies. Page 407, line 27, for discourses, read discoveries. Page 434, line 23, after, even as we are known, add, Secondly, in regard of accomplishment and consummation. Page 440, line 33, for reject, read eject. Page 442, line 16, for that faith, or made unable, read faith, or made that unable. Page 464, line 34, for it, read them. Page 484, line 34, for as, read was. Page 485, line 19, for conviction, read conclusion. Page 487, line 26, for were, read wear. Page 501, line 11, for the, read these.

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