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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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Fifthly, if it be a right knowledge, it breeds holy affections; the other doth not: this follows the other. If men justify the Word, then they affect it. Its a general rule, that all full persuasions draw on affections: let it be but a persuasion in habit, it stirs as the habit is. 1 Thes. 1.6. My word was to you not ⟨p. 157⟩in word but in power, because it did work in you joy in the holy Ghost. Jer. 23.29. God comparing the word of true and false Prophets together, saith thus; My word is as fire, and as the hammer that breaketh the stone: it is the powerful word if it stirs your affections. Luke the last, Christ speaking to the Disciples that went with him to Emmaus, their hearts burned within them: they were full of holy affections. Consider if ye have these holy affections. Holy affections in the Scripture are ascribed to this knowledge, every where, where men hear, or know a. right: Psal. 112.1. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his Commandments. Psal. 1.2. Blessed are they that delight in the Law of the Lord: See whether there be holy affections wrought in you by the word.1 Felix did tremble at the word; so the second ground received the Word with joy, but not with holy joy.
Fiftly, if it bee a right knowledge, it breeds holy affections; the other doth not: this followes the other. If men justifie the Word, then they affect it. Its a generall rule, that all full perswasions draw on affections: let it bee but a perswasion in habit, it stirres as the habit is. 1 Thes. 1.6. My word was to you not ⟨p. 157⟩in word but in power, because it did worke in you ioy in the holy Ghost.