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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.
1Therefore you have the Saints that went all in one path: First, the Saints that are dead and gone, and then those that now live: You have the Spirit, the Word, and the Saints to teach you; only remember this caution, that the Saints are a rule to you, yet not a perfect one; they go in and out; eye them; but yet eye Christ beyond them, who is the author and finisher of our faith, Heb. 12.2. In all other things and artes, Non est eiusdem invenire & perficere; one man begins, and an other finisheth: but Christ, as he is the author, so he is the finisher of our faith: he hath begun the Doctrine, and the thing, and he will finish it. For the better understanding of the point, I will show you these two things.
1Therefore you have the Saints that went all in one path: First, the Saints that are dead and gone, and then those that now live: You have the Spirit, the Word, and the Saints to teach you; onely remember this caution, that the Saints are a rule to you, yet not a perfect one; they goe in and out; eye them; but yet eye Christ beyond them, who is the author and finisher of our faith, Heb. 12.2. In all other things and artes, Non est eiusdem invenire & perficere; one man begins, and an other finisheth: but Christ, as hee is the author, so hee is the finisher of our faith: hee hath begun the Doctrine, and the thing, and hee will finish it. For the better understanding of the point, I will shew you these two things.
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First, the action; what it is to follow Christ.