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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.
1I answer, it is nothing else but an inward work of the Spirit, by which he persuades ⟨p. 148⟩men effectually to turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God. It must be understood of the effectual working of the Spirit, because who ever doth hear it, lives: this voice reneweth and changeth men, translating them from death to life. Now this effectual speaking consists in two things. First, in propounding the object, the truth to the heart. Secondly, in the persuasion of the truth.
1I answer, it is nothing else but an inward worke of the Spirit, by which hee perswades ⟨p. 148⟩men effectually to turne from darknesse to light, and from the power of Sathan to God. It must be understood of the effectuall working of the Spirit, because who ever doth heare it, lives: this voyce reneweth and changeth men, translating them from death to life. Now this effectuall speaking consists in two things. First, in propounding the object, the truth to the heart. Secondly, in the perswasion of the truth.
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