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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 second symptom of death is, want of motion: where there is no motion, there is death. All men naturally want this motion, they cannot judge or do any good thing by nature: they may do the opus operatum, but they cannot do it in an holy manner; their prayers, their hearing, receiving of the Sacrament, and the like, are dead works without faith the principal of life, how ever they may be fair in other mens eyes.
The second symptome of death is, want of motion: where there is no motion, there is death. All men naturally want this motion, they cannot judge or doe any good thing by nature: they may doe the opus operatum, but they cannot doe it in an holy manner; their prayers, their hearing, receiving of the Sacrament, and the like, are dead workes without faith the principall of life, how ever they may be faire in other mens eyes.
The third sign of a natural death, is senselessness; so men are spiritually dead, when they are not affected with Gods judgements, when they have hard hearts which cannot repent, Rom. 2.5. when they have hearts as hard as a stone, Ezek. 36.27. or when they are affected with ⟨p. 60⟩them only as natural men apprehend evil; not from a quickening Spirit, but from a self-love.
The third signe of a naturall death, is sencelesnesse; so men are spiritually dead, when they are not affected with Gods judgements, when they have hard hearts which cannot repent, Rom. 2.5. when they have hearts as hard as a stone, Ezek. 36.27. or when they are affected with ⟨p. 60⟩