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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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Lastly, it is a life most capacious of comforts: ye may give all the faculties of the soul comfort. Every creature according as his life is, feels more or less comfort. Plants as they feel no hurt, so they feel no sweetness: beasts that have a sensible soul, feel more evil and good: a man that lives a natural life, not knowing the life of grace, is sensible of more good and evil, than sensible beasts; he apprehends Heaven and Hell: but a man that lives the life of grace, is more capacious of comfort: here you may suffer your faculties to run out to the utmost. If ye desire wealth or pleasures, your affections must not run out, ye must hold them in; else they drown you into perdition, 1and pierce you through with many sorrows. If ye affect heavenly Treasures, if ye affect praise with ⟨p. 125⟩God, ye may be as covetous of them as you will.
Lastly, it is a life most capacious of comforts: yee may give all the faculties of the soule comfort. Every creature according as his life is, feeles more or lesse comfort. Plants as they feele no hurt, so they feele no sweetnesse: beasts that have a sensible soule, feele more evill and good: a man that lives a naturall life, not knowing the life of grace, is sensible of more good and evill, than sensible beasts; hee apprehends Heaven and Hell: but a man that lives the life of grace, is more capacious of comfort: here you may suffer your facultyes to runne out to the utmost. If ye desire wealth or pleasures, your affections must not runne out, yee must hold them in; else they drowne you into perdition, 1and pierce you thorow with many sorrowes. If ye affect heavenly Treasures, if yee affect praise with ⟨p. 125⟩God, yee may be as covetous of them as you will.