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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
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Secondly, moral virtue and Christian holiness differ in working, the last is done of a sudden. A man is made a living man suddenly, though there are some previous dispositions, yet the soul is suddenly infused; after this manner the Saints pass from death to life. Others have their habits by frequent acts and education, they are moulded to it by little and little.
Secondly, morrall vertue and Christian holinesse differ in working, the last is done of a sudden. A man is made a living man suddainely, though there are some previous dispositions, yet the soule is suddenly infused; after this manner the Saints passe from death to life. Others have their habits by frequent acts and education, they are moulded to it by little and little.
Thirdly, in moral men the change is never general, there is no new birth in them; but in the Saints, All things are new, 2. Cor. 5.17.18.
Thirdly, in morrall men the change is never generall, there is no new birth in them; but in the Saints, All things are new, 2. Cor. 5.17.18.
Fourthly, morality doth never change nature, but grace doth: the most wild man in a country, the unlikeliest man of all others, Religion makes him a Lamb of a Lion, though it were unprobable.
Fourthly, morallitie doth never change nature, but grace doth: the most wilde man in a country, the unlikeliest man of all others, Religion makes him a Lambe of a Lion, though it were unprobable.