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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.
1But what is it to deny our selves?
- 1Quest.
1I answer, it is nothing else, but not to make our selves our aim and end; but to make God our end and aim, and to deny our selves as we are contrary to him: To deny that dullness and averseness of Nature, that the Scripture calls,2 the old man, and the flesh; to give this the denial is to deny a mans self; because this is reckoned a mans self. Flesh and corruption of nature, is called a mans self. 2 Corinth. 4.5. We preach not our selves, but Christ: That is, we preach not for our own credit and ends, but for Christ and his glory. The corruption of Nature is reckoned a mans self. 2 Corinth. 12.5. PAUL saith that he knew a man that was caught up into Paradise, &c. Of such a one I will glory, yet of my self I will not glory: That is, I will ⟨p. 189⟩not rejoice of my corruption, but of the regenerate part of my self. I am a lump• […] of sin.
1I answer, it is nothing else, but not to make our selves our aime and end; but to make God our end and aime, and to deny our selves as wee are contrary to him: To deny that dulnesse and aversnesse of Nature, that the Scripture calls,2 the old man, and the flesh; to give this the deniall is to deny a mans selfe; because this is reckoned a mans selfe. Flesh and corruption of nature, is called a mans selfe.