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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 is, men are not at leisure; there are millions of businesses in their heads, so that they cannot hearken to the whisperings of conscience; they have no spare time to be wise unto salvation; It will be our wisdom therefore to consider our end, Deut. 32.29. To help you therefore in this Query, whether you are dead or alive? §1Consider first, if ever you have been dead. §2Secondly, if ye have been dead, whether ye are made alive.
The second is, men are not at leasure; there are millions of businesses in their heads, so that they cannot hearken to the whisperings of conscience; they have no spare time to be wise unto salvation; It will be our wisdome therefore to consider our end, Deut. 32.29. To helpe you therefore in this Quere, whether you are dead or alive? §1Consider first, if ever you have beene dead. §2Secondly, if ye have beene dead, whether yee are made alive.
First, I say, consider whether ye have been dead or no; I mean, whether sin hath been made alive in you, that you might die▪ Rom. 7.9.10 I was alive without the Law once, but when the Commandment came, sin revived, and I died; that is, the Commandment awakens my sins, and they being alive I died; sin when it affrights not a ⟨p. 70⟩mans conscience, then he is dead; when it wounds the conscience, then he is alive. The Law being brought to the soul by the Spirit, ye see the rectitude of the Commandment, and your own obliquity and crookedness; then sin is alive and ye die. Peter preaching to the Jews,