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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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Lastly, in a natural death, there is a loss of that vigour and beauty in the face and countenance which is in living men: So in men that are spiritually dead, there is no beauty, no vigour, they have death in their faces: they may have painted beauty, which may be like the living, (as he said: pictum putavi esse verum, et verum putavi esse pictum:) they may be much alike, yet they have not that liveliness and beauty as living men have; Gods beauty (the beauty of holiness) is not found in them.
Lastly, in a naturall death, there is a losse of that vigor and beauty in the face and countenance which is in living men: So in men that are spiritually dead, there is no beauty, no vigor, they have death in their faces: they may have painted beauty, which may be like the living, (as he said: pictum putavi esse verum, et verum putavi esse pictum:) they may bee much alike, yet they have not that livelinesse and beauty as living men have; Gods beauty (the beauty of holinesse) is not found in them.
1I answer, they may have excellencies, as a dead man may have Jewels and Chains about him, yet they are dead: they have them, but yet they are as Jewels of Gold in a Swines snout; they are as Swine, their good things make them not men, they are beautiful yet they are but dead men; as the evil works of good men make them not bad men: so the good works of evil men, make them not good. Thus much for the signs of this Death.