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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.
The first is this; men are said to be dead when they understand nothing, when as there is no reason extant in them, when they see no more than dead men. The life is nought else but the soul acted: then a man is said to live when the understanding part is acted. So man is spiritually dead when as his understanding is darkened, when as he sees or understands nothing of Gods ways,1 because they are spiritual▪ and he carnal.
The first is this; men are said to bee dead when they understand nothing, when as there is no reason exstant in them, when they see no more than dead men. The life is nought else but the soule acted: then a man is said to live when the understanding part is acted. So man is spiritually dead when as his understanding is darkened, when as hee sees or understands nothing of Gods wayes,1 because they are spirituall▪ and he carnall.