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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, faith doth it by fitting us for Christ, from whom our life comes: 1 Joh. 5.12. he that hath the Son hath life. First, the Son of God infuseth life into him, to whom he is conjoined; the conjunction betwixt Christ and us is but relative: as between the King and the subject; when the subjects resolve to take such an one for their king, they are conjoined to him; so when a woman resolves to take such a man for her husband, she is conjoined to him. The action of taking Christ, is to take him as a Lord, to serve him, as a Saviour, to have all comfort by him: he that hath the Son in the relative union, shall have him in the real union: the Son will quicken you, as the soul doth the body. A Christian hath the life of the Son of God. Gal. 2.21. I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me: all ⟨p. 139⟩that I do, Christ doth it in me: all that the body doth, the soul doth it: the body lives not, but the soul lives in it. After that manner Christ lives in us: not a good thought or affection, nor any resolution or motion of the soul, but comes from Christ: being united to Christ by faith he lives in us. Joh. 6.43. he that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, shall live. As flesh gives life to the body, so the Son gives it to the soul; To eat the flesh of Christ, is to prize him, to desire and long after him, which is after the spirit of bondage; to eat him, is to take him, to come to him, to have him for your God: In these two things stands the eating of Christ, First in prising him exceedingly, so as to part with any thing for him; and to take up his Cross with all losses. Secondly, in believing him to be yours, and you his: this eating and drinking of the body and blood of Christ, expresseth our relative union with him, and then follows our real union: the Spirit immediately gives this: he that doth the first, shall have the second.
Thirdly, faith doth it by fitting us for Christ, from whom our life comes: 1 Ioh. 5.12. he that hath the Sonne hath life. First, the Sonne of God infuseth life into him, to whom he is conjoyned; the conjunction betwixt Christ and us is but relative: as betweene the King and the subject; when the subjects resolve to take such an one for their king, they are conjoyned to him; so when a woman resolves to take such a man for her husband, shee is conjoyned to him. The action of taking Christ, is to take him as a Lord, to serve him, as a Saviour, to have all comfort by him: hee that hath the Sonne in the relative union, shall have him in the reall union: the Sonne will quicken you, as the soule doth the body. A Christian hath the life of the Sonne of God.