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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.
so it is to be absent from the Sacrament; nothing can excuse you. If a master bid his servant do a thing, and he goes and is drunken, so that he cannot do it, will it excuse him? If you have made your selves unfit to receive the Sacrament by committing any gross sins; the unfitness will not excuse you. If a man hath an occasion to ride a journey, if he miss one day, he will take the next: so ye if ye miss the Sacrament once, be sure to take it the next time▪ It is *divided here, that so if ye miss once, ye may receive it the next time; take heed therefore how ye neglect it. The end of the Sacrament is to worship God, to set forth Christs death, it is the chiefest part of God worship; therefore give it the chiefest respect. Now from hence see the necessity of this life of grace: how can ye come to the Sacrament, if ye are dead men? Labour therefore for this life of grace. And thus much for the first point, that all men out of Christ are in a state of death.
so it is to be absent from the Sacrament; nothing can excuse you. If a master bid his servant do a thing, and he goes and is drunken, so that he cannot doe it, will it excuse him? If you have made your selves unfit to receive the Sacrament by commiting any grosse sinnes; the unfitnesse will not excuse you. If a man hath an occasion to ride a journey, if he misse one day, hee will take the next: so ye if ye misse the Sacrament once, be sure to take it the next time▪ It is *devided here, that so if ye misse once, yee may receive it the next time; take heed therefore how yee neglect it. The end of the Sacrament is to worship God, to set forth Christs death, it is the chiefest part of God worship; therefore give it the chiefest respect. Now from hence see the necessitie of this life of grace: how can yee come to the Sacrament, if yee are dead men? Labour therefore for this life of grace. And thus much for the first point, that all men out of Christ are in a state of death.
- *The Sacrament is administered twice every Term, and sometimes thrice.The Sacrament is administred twice every Terme, and sometimes thrice.