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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, it is hidden with a base outside, 2. Cor. 6.10. The Saints are as poor, as despised, as having nothing; Christ had a base outside (there was no form or beauty in him that we should desire him:1 and so have the Saints being conformable to him; they are like other men for their outsides.
Secondly, it is hidden with a base outside, 2. Cor. 6.10. The Saints are as poore, as despised, as having nothing; Christ had a base outside (there was no forme or beauty in him that wee should desire him:1 and so have the Saints being conformable to him; they are like other men for their outsides.
- 1Eay 53.2.
Thirdly, it is hidden with mis-reports, thus Christ himself was hidden; he was counted ⟨p. 90⟩a wine-bibber, 1a friend of Publicans and sinners; one casting out devils by Beelzebub: and therefore he became a stumbling block unto many.2 The Saints are likewise mis-represented, they are evil spoken of, they are presented to mens understanding otherwise than they are. There are a generation of men, that pervert the strait ways of God, Act. 13.10