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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.
Lastly, in natural death, there is a loss of that vigour, that beauty in the face and countenance, which is in living men: So in men that are spiritually dead, there is no beauty, no vigour, they have death in their faces: they may have painted beauty, which may be like the living, (as he said: pictum putavi esse verum, & verum putavi esse pictum:) they may be much alike, yet they have not that liveliness and beauty as living men have,1 Gods beauty (the beauty of holiness) is not found in them.
Lastly, in naturall death, there is a losse of that vigor, that beauty in the face and countenance, which is in living men: So in men that are spiritually dead, there is no beauty, no vigor, they have death in their faces: they may have painted beauty, which may be like the living, (as he said: pictum putavi esse verum, & verum putavi esse pictum:) they may be much alike, yet they haue not that livelinesse and beauty as living men have,1 Gods beauty (the beauty of holinesse) is not found in them.