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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.
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, you must not judge of ⟨p. 21⟩things according to sense, for sense was never made a Judge by God, to judge of these things; but judge of them according to faith and rectified reason, which judgeth of things that are to come, that are past & present all together, and so can best judge of these things as they are.
1To this I answer, you must not judge of ⟨p. 21⟩things according to sence, for sence was never made a Iudge by God, to judge of these things; but judge of them according to faith and rectified reason, which judgeth of things that are to come, that are past & present all together, and so can best judge of these things as they are.
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Now for to help your judgements in these things.
Now for to helpe your judgements in these things.
First, consider what the Scripture doth say of them: what it doth say of pleasure, friends, and riches: the Scripture presents things as they are, and that tells you that they are but Vanity of vanities, and that all is vanity.1