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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.
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First, if ye depend on God for the disposing, continuing, and want of them, if ye think ye shall enjoy them no longer than God will. If ye think this with your selves, we have Wives, Children, Friends, and Riches, 'tis true we have them, but yet they shall not continue with us an hour or minute longer than God will: If ye think so in good earnest, then ye rejoice in them as blessings. A man that is relieved when he is in danger, looks more to the will than to the hand of him that helps him: we look more to the good will of our friends, than to their gifts: so we should look more to Gods Will and pleasure, than to the benefits which he bestows on us. The consideration of these things as blessings, must raise up your thoughts to heavenly thing, to consider that whatsoever ⟨p. 18⟩is done in earth, is first acted in heaven; the Sun is first eclipsed there, and then here: so your estates are first eclipsed there, before that they are here. Look therefore on GOD, and on these as merely depending on Gods will, and then you enjoy them merely as blessings.
First, if yee depend on God for the disposing, continuing, and want of them, if yee thinke yee shall enjoy them no longer than God will. If yee thinke this with your selves, wee have Wives, Children, Friends, and Riches, 'tis true we have them, but yet they shall not continue with us an houre or minute longer than God will: If ye thinke so in good earnest, then yee rejoyce in them as blessings. A man that is relieved when he is in danger, lookes more to the will than to the hand of him that helpes him: wee looke more to the good will of our friends, than to their gifts: so we should looke more to Gods Will and pleasure, than to the benefits which he bestowes on us. The consideration of these things as blessings, must raise up your thoughts to heavenly thinge, to consider that whatsoever ⟨p. 18⟩is done in earth, is first acted in heaven; the Sunne is first eclipsed there, and then here: so your estates are first eclipsed there, before that they are here. Looke therefore on GOD, and on these as meerely depending on Gods will, and then you enjoy them meerely as blessings.