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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, ye are translated from death to life, ye are living men if ye love the Brethren, 1 Joh. 3.14. If a man be a living man, he lives in another element than he did before; Every living man converseth with those of the same kind,1 as every creature doth; Sheep with Sheep, Lyons with Lyons, Doves with Doves; so ⟨p. 110⟩living men will converse with living men. Not loving the brethren, we are in a state of death. Every creature must have an element to live in; a new life must have a new element: evil men out of their companies are as Fish out of the water. Every life hath likewise a taste and appetite; a new life hath a new taste and judgement. Pro. 29.27. An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way, is an abomination to the wicked: that is, one hates the thing that the other loves: he that is alive, the things which before he loved, he now hates: he abhors the things, that evil men delight in. That which is a dogs meat, is a sheep's poison, as the proverb is: so that which wicked men delight in, is as odious as poison to the just. To judge this life by; see what your company and delights are, nothing can be less dissembled than company. In his company man doth speak out of the abundance of the heart, he then bewrays himself what he is: there is no dead man, no living man but he is inward with the like: no sign so much pointed at in the Scripture, as this, Ye are translated from death to life, if ye love the brethren, 1 Joh. 3.14. and Joh. 13.35. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another: this rule will not deceive you.
First, ye are translated from death to life, yee are living men if ye love the Brethren, 1 Ioh. 3.14. If a man be a living man, he lives in another element than he did before; Every living man converseth with those of the same kind,