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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, If all that will have any interest in Christ, must deny themselves,1 you see how prone our nature is to evil, else we needed not this exhortation. We sink down to sin, as a stone doth to the Centre, the flesh is still drawing and biassing us the wrong way; therefore let us not have too good an opinion of our selves▪ let us be jealous with a holy jealousy; ⟨p. 202⟩remember the Flesh is prone to evil continually.
Thirdly, If all that will have any interest in Christ, must deny themselves,1 you see how prone our nature is to evill, else wee needed not this exhortation. Wee sinke downe to sin, as a stone doth to the Center, the flesh is still drawing and byassing us the wrong way; therefore let us not have too good an opinion of our selves▪ let us bee jealous with a holy jealousie; ⟨p. 202⟩remember the Flesh is prone to evill continually.
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