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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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Thirdly, as in the natural life, so in this, there is a taste, a palate, that helps this appetite. Rom. 12.2. Be ye changed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and perfect, and acceptable will of God, that is, that ye may be able to discern of it, as the touchstone discerns of gold, or the taste and palate of meats.
Thirdly, as in the naturall life, so in this, there is a taste, a palate, that helps this appetite. Rom. 12.2. Be yee changed by the renewing of your minde, that yee may prove what is that good and perfect, and acceptable will of God, that is, that yee may bee able to discerne of it, as the touchstone discernes of gold, or the taste and palate of meates.
Fourthly, as in the other life there is hunger and thirst, so is there in this; men who live it are sensible of pains, and refreshings, they ⟨p. 98⟩are sensible of sin, judgements and threatenings, which others are not, being hard and dead.
Fourthly, as in the other life there is hunger and thirst, so is there in this; men who live it are sensible of paines, and refreshings, they ⟨p. 98⟩are sensible of sinne, judgements and threatnings, which others are not, being hard and dead.