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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
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.
Secondly, in this death as there is a privation, so there is also a positive evil quality wrought in the soul, whereby it is not only void of goodness, but made ill. In the natural death when a man dyes, there is another form left in the body; so in this spiritual death, there is an evil habit, left in ⟨p. 55⟩the souls of men: This you may see Heb. 9.14. where the works you do before regeneration, are called, Dead works: there would be a contradiction in calling them dead works, if there were not another positive evil form in man, beside the absence of the quickening Spirit,1 which form is called Flesh in the Scriptures.
Secondly, in this death as there is a privation, so there is also a positive evill quality wrought in the soule, whereby it is not onely void of goodnesse, but made ill. In the naturall death when a man dyes, there is another forme left in the body; so in this spirituall death, there is an evill habit, left in ⟨p. 55⟩the soules of men: This you may see Heb. 9.14. where the workes you doe before regeneration, are called, Dead workes: there would be a contradiction in calling them dead workes, if there were not another positive evill forme in man, beside the absence of the quickning Spirit,1 which forme is called Flesh in the Scriptures.
- 1Rom. 7.18. Chap. 8.1.4. to 10.