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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.
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. that is, they make them seem crooked, though they are straight, notwithstanding, they pervert them, as a crooked, or false glass, perverts a face that is beautiful, representing it in another shape; or as a stick that is half in the water, and half out, seems to be crooked, and yet is straight in it self.
Thirdly, it is hidden with mis-reports, thus Christ himselfe was hidden; he was counted ⟨p. 90⟩a wine-bibber, 1a friend of Publicans and sinners; one casting out divels by Belzebub: and therefore he became a stumbling blocke unto many.2 The Saints are likewise mis-represented, they are evill spoken of, they are presented to mens understanding otherwise than they are. There are a generation of men, that pervert the strait wayes of God, Act. 13.10. that is, they make them seeme crooked, though they are straight, notwithstanding, they pervert them, as a crooked, or false glasse, perverts a face that is beautifull, representing it in another shape; or as a sticke that is halfe in the water, and halfe out, seemes to be crooked, and yet is straight in it selfe.
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