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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.
Secondly, are ye made alive again? Is there such a change in you as if ye were other creatures, as if ye lived an other life? Where this life is, it works an alteration and a change, gives us another being, makes us to be no more the same men; Who ever is in Christ, 1is a new creature; it works a general change from death to life; it makes all our actions to be vigorous, like the actions of living men, Old things pass away, all things become new, it makes men lead a new life: If old acquaintance and lusts would draw us away, we answer that we are dead, that we live no moe to these, that now we have not our own wills: Christ lives in us and works in us, Gal. 2.20. It is not I that live, but Christ lives in me. The same mind will be in us that was in Christ Jesus, Phil. 2.5. Now if ye desire to know whether Christ live in you or no, or whether you are in an estate of death; you must see whether you have these two things which are in every one in whom Christ liveth: first see whether you live to him: He died that we should not live to our self, 2but to him alone. In moral things the end and principle are all one. Before Christ lived in you, all you did was from your selves, ye were your own principle and end: but Christ living in you, there is another end; ye eye Christ, ye look to him, all that ye do is done in sincerity, it is done for him and from him.
Secondly, are yee made alive againe? Is there such a change in you as if yee were other creatures, as if yee lived an other life? Where this life is, it works an alteration and a change, gives us another being, makes us to bee no more the same men; Who ever is in Christ, 1is a new creature; it works a generall change from death to life; it makes all our actions to bee vigorous, like the actions of living men, Old things passe away, all things become new, it makes men lead a new life: If old acquaintance and lusts would draw us away, we answer that we are dead, that we live no moe to these, that now we have not our owne wills: Christ lives in us and workes in us,