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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 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 Ezec. 22.30. that he sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before him, for the land, that he should not destroy it, but he found none; There will be a man, that is, a man of authority to oppose the stream.
1But what if thou art alone? Eliah was alone for ought he knew; yet he withstood all Baals prophets, and overcame them. Luther was alone, so that one saith of him; Vnus homo solus, totius orbis impetum sustinuit, that one man withstood the force of the whole world: And what if thou art alone, yet one cole 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 speakes of Ezec. 22.30. that he sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before him, for the land, that he should not destroy it, but he found none; There will be a man, that is, a man of authority to oppose the streame.
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