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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.
First, that there is such a life, as this; It is needful to show you, that there is such a life,1 because it is a hidden life. God hides these spiritual things, as he hid Christ under a Carpenters son: so he hides the glorious mysteries of the Sacrament,2 under the base elements of Bread and Wine; he hides the wisdom of God, under the foolishness of preaching:3 he hides those whom the world is not worthy of, under sheep's Skins, and Goats Skins, Heb. 11. yea, Col. 3.3. Our lives are hid with Christ in God.
First, that there is such a life, as this; It is needfull to shew you, that there is such a life,1 because it is a hidden life. God hides these spirituall things, as he hid Christ under a Carpenters sonne: so he hides the glorious mysteries of the Sacrament,2 under the base elements of Bread and Wine; he hides the wisdome of God, under the foolishnesse of preaching:3 he hides those whom the world is not worthy of, under sheepes Skinnes, and Goates Skinnes, Heb. 11. yea, Col. 3.3. Our lives are hid with Christ in God.
- 1That there is a spiritual life. Matth. 13 55.That there is a spirituall life.