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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 to whom this belongeth, are those who are dead indeed.
The first of these, are like the Angels that take bodies, and do actions; they are not truly living men, though they appear to be. Now the signs that Characterise these dead men from those that are truly living, are five, taken from the signs of the feigned life, in the Spirits that have bodies but only in appearance whereby they are distinguished from bodies that truly live.
The first of these, are like the Angels that take bodies, and doe actions; they are not truly living men, though they appeare to be. Now the signes that Characterise these dead men from those that are truly living, are five, taken from the signes of the fained life, in the Spirits that have bodies but onely in appearance whereby they are distinguished from bodies that truly live.
First, Angels that take assumed bodies, eat and drink, and are not nourished:1 as the Angels that came to Lot, and Abraham, and had created bodies. So these dead men do all the actions that living men do; they hear, they pray, they read, but they turn it not into flesh and blood, because there is no life in them: they are not the stronger for hearing, or any thing they do; they thrive not, as those that have the Boulimia, they eat and drink yet they grow not, because there is an Atrophy in their bodies. We preach to men, yet they are the same this year as they were the last: they have a name to live and yet they live not, they turn not the means to flesh and nourishment; it is a sign of a living man that he grows. That which is said of a good wit, that it makes use ⟨p. 74⟩