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An elegant and lively description of spiritual life and death Delivered in divers sermons…An elegant and lively description of spirituall life and death Delivered in divers sermons…
An elegant and lively description of spiritual life and death Delivered in divers sermons in Lincolns-Inn, November the 9.th, M.DCXXIII. upon John, 5.25. By John Preston then Bachelor of Divinity, and chaplain in ordinary to the Prince his Highness.An elegant and lively description of spirituall life and death Delivered in divers sermons in Lincolnes-Inne, November the 9.th, M.DCXXIII. vpon Iohn, 5.25. By Iohn Preston then Bachellor of Divinitie, and chaplaine in ordinarie to the Prince his Highnesse.
London: printed by Tho for Michael Sparke, 1632London: printed by Tho for Michaell Sparke, 1632
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Secondly, moral virtue and Christian holiness differ in working, the last is done of a sudden. A man is made a living man suddenly; though there are some previous dispositions, yet the soul is suddenly infused; after this manner the Saints pass from death to life. Others have their actions by frequent acts and education, they are moulded to it by little and little.
Secondly, morrall vertue and Christian holinesse differ in working, the last is done of a suddaine. A man is made a living man suddainely; though there are some previous dispositions, yet the soule is suddenly infused; after this manner the Saints passe from death to life. Others have their actions by frequent acts and education, they are moulded to it by little and little.
Thirdly, in moral men the change is never general, there is no new birth in them; but in the Saints, all things are new.
Thirdly, in morrall men the change is never generall, there is no new birth in them; but in the Saints, all things are new.
Fourthly, morality doth never change nature, but grace doth: the most wild man in a country, the unlikeliest man of all others, religion makes him a Lamb of a Lyon, though it were unprobable.
Fourthly, morallity doth never change nature, but grace doth: the most wilde man in a countrey, the unlikeliest man of all others, religion makes him a Lambe of a Lyon, though it were unprobable.