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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
COLLOS. 3.5. And Covetousness which is Idolatry.COLLOS. 3.5. And Covetousnesse which is Idolatrie.
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.
1No, not all, they are vanity, they are empty ⟨p. 11⟩in themselves, they cannot do it: they are in themselves but vanity; having the creature ye have but the husk without the grain, the shell without the kernel. The creature is but empty of it self; except God put into it a fitness to comfort you, all is vanity and nothing worth, and this vanity is nothing but emptiness. And this serves to correct the thoughts of men, who think that if they had such an estate, all their debts paid, if they had such and such friends, then all would be well with them: and who is it that thinks not thus? But let those that entertain such thoughts, consider the vanity of the creature: all our sins proceed from the over-valuing of the creature; for sin is nothing but an aversion of the soul from the immutable God to the creature. Labour then to conceive of the creature aright, to see that it is vain: this will keep you right, and hinder you from going from God and cleaving to the creature.
1No, not all, they are vanitie, they are empty ⟨p. 11⟩in themselves, they cannot doe it: they are in themselves but vanitie; having the creature yee have but the huske without the graine, the shell without the kernell. The creature is but empty of it selfe; except God put into it a fitnesse to comfort you, all is vanity and nothing worth, and this vanity is nothing but emptinesse. And this serves to correct the thoughts of men, who thinke that if they had such an estate, all their debts paid, if they had such and such friends, then all would bee well with them: and who is it that thinks not thus? But let those that entertaine such thoughts, consider the vanitie of the creature: all our sinnes proceed from the over-valuing of the creature; for sinne is nothing but an aversion of the soule from the immutable God to the creature. Labour then to conceive of the creature aright, to see that it is vaine: this will keepe you right, and hinder you from going from God and cleaving to the creature.
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