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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, there is a life which the foul and spirits lives; as the Angels they move, act, and understand; though they eat not; there ⟨p. 91⟩is therefore a life, besides this common life.
First, there is a life which the foule and spirits lives; as the Angels they move, act, and understand; though they eate not; there ⟨p. 91⟩is therefore a life, besides this common life.
Secondly, consider the matter of the soul, then ye shall see, that the soul lives such a life, as Angels do; The souls of good men, lead such a life as good Angels do; the souls of bad men, such a life as bad Angels. The life of beasts depends on the compacture, and Temperature of the substance, as the Harmony doth upon the true extent of every string. With the soul of man it is otherwise; the soul lives first, and then causeth the body to live; it is otherwise in beasts, their souls and bodies live together. Besides it is certain, that the soul shall live, when as the body is laid aside; then it lives another life from the body: therefore it lives another life in the body. The higher faculties of the soul, the Understanding and Will, are not placed or seated in the body, as other faculties are: the visive faculty must have an eye to see, the hearing faculty must have an ear to hear, and so the rest of the faculties must have their organs; but the Understanding hath no such organ, it only useth those things that are presented to it by the fancy. Our sight, feeling, and hearing perish, when their organs perish; but the superior faculties of the soul, wear not away, but the elder the body is, the younger they are. The soul lives now in the object, now in the subject: it lives in the things it is occupied about: As the Angels ⟨p. 92⟩are said to be, where they work, because they have no bodies as we have, to make them be locally there: so the soul it also lives, where it is occupied; as if it be occupied about heavenly things,