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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.
1I answer, though sometimes they want it, yet they are quickly made hot again, because there is life in them; as Charcoal is quickly kindled, because it hath been in the fire, so the Saints are soon kindled, because they had fire in them before. Others are as green wood, or rather as matter that is not combustible, as the Adamant, that will not be made hot with fire; Living men, admonitions and the ⟨p. 80⟩fire of good company will heat again, so will it not the others.
1I answer, though sometimes they want it, yet they are quickly made hot againe, because there is life in them; as Charcole is quickly kindled, because it hath beene in the fire, so the Saints are soone kindled, brcause they had fire in thē before. Others are as greene wood, or rather as matter that is not combustible, as the Adamant, that will not bee made hot with fire; Living men, admonitions and the ⟨p. 80⟩fire of good company will heate againe, so wil it not the others.
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Secondly, ye shall know them by their stiffness and hardness. It is a sign of death to be inflexible: Wicked men are as hard as flint to Gods commands, but as soft as wax to that which humours them. Are ye tractable? Do you delight in your own ways, and yet continue the same men, keep the same company? Do ye abide still in the same place, or go on in the same tract? then ye are dead: In many things you may be tractable, but the main is, whether ye are flexible in those things that are connatural unto you. These deal with us as Johanan did with Jeremiah,