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Four godly and learned treatises Entitled, I. A remedy against covetousness. II. An elegant…Foure godly and learned treatises Intituled, I. A remedy against covetousnesse. II. An elegant…
Four godly and learned treatises Entitled, I. A remedy against covetousness. II. An elegant and lively description of spiritual death and life. III. The doctrine of self-denial. IV. Upon the sacrament of the Lords Supper. Delivered in sundry sermons, by that late famous preacher, and worthy instrument of Gods glory, John Preston, Doctor of Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty; master of Emanuel College, and sometime preacher of Lincolns Inn.Foure godly and learned treatises Intituled, I. A remedy against covetousnesse. II. An elegant and lively description of spirituall death and life. III. The doctrine of selfe-deniall. IV. Vpon the sacrament of the Lords Supper. Delivered in sundry sermons, by that late famous preacher, and worthy instrument of Gods glory, Iohn Preston, Doctor of Divinitie, chaplaine in ordinarie to his Majestie; master of Emanuel Colledge, and sometime preacher of Lincolnes Inne.
London: printed by Thomas for Michael Sparke, 1633
COLLOS. 3.5. And Covetousness which is Idolatry.COLLOS. 3.5. And Covetousnesse which is Idolatrie.
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Fourthly, it is dangerous, for it doth choke the word, and drown men in perdition: therefore it is Agurs Prayer, Prov. 30.8.9. Give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for me; least I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? Fullness and excess is always dangerous: full tables do cause surfeits, full cups make a strong brain giddy. The strongest Saints hath been shaken with prosperity and excess, as David, Hezekiah, Solomon; they sinned by reason of excess in outward things. It is dangerous to be rich, therefore it is Davids counsel, Psal. 62.10. If riches increase, set not your hearts upon them. 1A rich man cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven: It is easier for a ⟨p. 41⟩Camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for him to enter into Heaven: For if a man be rich, it is a thousand to one, but that he trusteth in his riches, and it is impossible that he who trusteth in his Riches, should enter into heaven.
Fourthly, it is dangerous, for it doth choake the word, and drowne men in perdition: therefore it is Agurs Prayer, Prov. 30.8.9. Give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for mee; least I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? Fulnesse and excesse is alwayes dangerous: full tables doe cause surfeits, full cups make a strong braine giddy. The strongest Saints hath beene shaken with prosperity and excesse, as Dauid, Hezekiah, Salomon; they sinned by reason of excesse in outward things. It is dangerous to bee rich, therefore it is Davids counsell, Psal. 62.10. If riches increase, set not your hearts upon them. 1A rich man cannot enter into the Kingdome of Heaven: It is easier for a ⟨p. 41⟩