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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.
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,1 he crieth out, My God my God, why hast thou forsaken me; As God withdraws himself more or less, so is our joy, our sorrow more or less. Thus much for the kinds of this death.
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 soule; when God is separated from the soule; then man dies this death of sorrow. ⟨p. 58⟩God joynes himselfe to the soules of good and bad: to those that are not sanctified, he joynes himselfe in a common manner, and thence it is, they have common joy, common comfort, common civility; to the godly he joynes himselfe in an extraordinary manner, by which they have extraordinary joy: now when God is separated from the soule, then comes a perfect death; see it in the separation of God from Christs humanity. God withdrawing himselfe from him but for a time,1 he crieth out, My God my God, why hast thou forsaken mee; As God withdrawes himselfe more or lesse, so is our joy, our sorrow more or lesse. Thus much for the kinds of this death.
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