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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.
Lastly, as this common life hath beside other things that maintain it, some other endowments to help it out, as company, recreation, riches, and the like: so hath this spiritual life, it hath riches, and friends, it hath its heritage,1 company, habitation, (God is our habitation from everlasting) with the same reality, though not with the same visibility, and so exposed to sense as the other. The cause of this life is the holy Ghost, 2who is to the soul, as the soul is to the body; he is the cause of it: the end of it,3 is the Lord; all is done to God; No other life is so, this life is of God, through God, and for God: when you find such a reality in your actions tending to God, when he is your aim, then ye live this life.
Lastly, as this common life hath beside other things that maintaine it, some other indowm•nts to helpe it out, as company, recreation, riches, and the like: so hath this spirituall life, it hath riches, and friends, it hath its heritage,1 company, habitation, (God is our habitation from everlasting) with the same realitie, though not with the same visibility, and so exposed to sence as the other. The cause of this life is the holy Ghost, 2who is to the soule, as the soule is to the body; hee is the cause of it: the end of it,3 is the Lord; all is done to God; No other life is so, this life is of God, through God, and for God: when you finde such a realitie in your actions tending to God, when he is your aime, then ye live this life.
- 1Psal. 91.9.
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