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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.
1Secondly I answer, that though ye are dead, yet hearing may breed life, the word can do it. There was an end why Christ spake to Lazarus, that was dead, Lazarus come forth, because his word wrought life;2 therefore though ye are dead, yet because the word can work life in you, our preaching is not in vain.
1Secondly I answer, that though yee are dead, yet hearing may breed life, the word can doe it. There was an end why Christ spake to Lazarus, that was dead, Lazarus come forth, because his word wrought life;2 therefore though yee are dead, yet because the word can worke life in you, our preaching is not in vaine.
- 1Answ. 2.
- 2Joh. 11.43.44.Ioh. 11.43.44.
Lastly, this death is a voluntary death. Men who are naturally dead cannot put life into themselves; no more can those who are spiritually dead when they have made themselves dead. Men die this death in a free manner; I cannot better express it, than by this similitude. A man that is about to commit the act of murder or treason, his friends persuade him not to do it, for if he doth, he is but a dead man; yet notwithstanding he will do it; we say of such a one that he is a dead man willingly. So we tell men, if they do thus and thus, that they go down to the Chambers of death, yet they will do it. Hence is that