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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.
First, there is a death of guiltiness: one that is guilty of any offence that is death by the Law, is said to be but a dead man. So every one by nature is a dead man, bound over to death though he be not executed.
First, there is a death of guiltinesse: one that is guiltie of any offence that is death by the Law, is said to be but a dead man. So every one by nature is a dead man, bound over to death though he be not executed.
Secondly, there is a death in sin that is opposite to the life of sanctification, Ephe. 2.1. You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins: and there is a death for sin that is contrary to the life of Glory.
Secondly, there is a death in sinne that is opposite to the life of sanctification, Ephe. 2.1. You hath he quickned, who were dead in trespasses and sinnes: and there is a death for sinne that is contrary to the life of Glory.
Thirdly, there is a death that is opposite to the life of joy: in hell there is a life, man is not quite extinguished, but yet men in hell are said to be dead, because they have no joy. This death consists in the separating of God from the soul; when God is separated from the soul; then man dies this death of sorrow. ⟨p. 58⟩God joins himself to the souls of good and bad: to those that are not sanctified, he joins himself in a common manner, and thence it is, they have common joy, common comfort, common civility; to the godly he joins himself in an extraordinary manner, by which they have extraordinary joy: now when God is separated from the soul, then comes a perfect death; see it in the separation of God from Christs humanity. God withdrawing himself from him but for a time,