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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.
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.
But when is a man a covetous man?1
- 1Quest.
1I answer, that then a man is a covetous man, when he hath desires arising within him, which are contrary to the former rules, and he resists them not; or else resists them so weakly and feebly, that he gets no ground of them: he sees no reason why he should resist them, ⟨p. 46⟩and therefore gives way unto them. A man is not a covetous man, nor yet an ambitious man, which hath covetous and ambitious thoughts; for these the holiest men have; but he that hath such thoughts, and strives not at all against them, or else strives but weakly, he is a covetous or ambitious man. A godly man may have these thoughts and desires, but he strives strongly against them, gets ground of them, and gives them a deaths wound: but the covetous man he yields unto them, the godly man he gets the victory over them.
1I answer, that then a man is a covetous man, when he hath desires arising within him, which are contrary to the former rules, and he resists them not; or else resists them so weakely and feebly, that he gets no ground of them: hee sees no reason why hee should resist them, ⟨p. 46⟩and therefore gives way unto them. A man is not a covetous man, nor yet an ambitious man, which hath covetous and ambitious thoughts; for these the holiest men have; but hee that hath such thoughts, and strives not at all against them, or else strives but weakely, hee is a covetous or ambitious man. A godly man may have these thoughts and desires, but he strives strongly against them, gets ground of them, and gives them a deaths wound: but the covetous man he yeelds unto them, the godly man he gets the victory over them.