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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.
1To this I answer, that the worser the times are, the better the Saints should be: the stars are most needed in the darkest night: Mark. 8.38. He that is ashamed of me, saith Christ, even in an adulterous and sinful generation, of him will I be ashamed when I sit in my Glory.
1To this I answere, that the worser the times are, the better the Saints should be: the starres are most needed in the darkest night: Mark. 8.38. He that is ashamed of me, saith Christ, even in an adulterous and sinfull generation, of him will I be ashamed when I sit in my Glory.
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1Yea, but I am alone, and therefore can do nothing.
- 1Object.
1But what if thou art alone? Elijah was alone for ought he knew; yet he withstood all Baals prophets, and overcame them. Luther was alone, so that one saith of him; Unus homo solus, totius orbis impetum sustinuit, that one man withstood the force of the whole world: And what if thou art alone, yet one coal may kindle another, and that another; and so mayst thou. Men are incendiaries to make one another wicked: be thou so to make others good: however, though thou art alone, yet thou shalt take away that reproach from a nation, which God speaks of