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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.
Secondly, the object and pattern that we must follow; and that is Christ.
Secondly, the object and patterne that wee must follow; and that is Christ.
For the first; what it is to follow Christ: I answer, That to follow Christ, is to resolve ⟨p. 245⟩to do or suffer with all our hearts, or willingly, what ever he commands, at all times, and all manner of ways. There are four things in this definition, which express what it is to follow Christ.
For the first; what it is to follow Christ: I answere, That to follow Christ, is to resolve ⟨p. 245⟩to do or suffer with all our hearts, or willingly, what ever he commands, at all times, and all manner of wayes. Thete are foure things in this definition, which expresse what it is to follow Christ.
First, we must resolve to do or suffer any thing that he commands,1 we must except nothing; we must resolve to obey and do all righteousness, and to abstain from all unrighteousness: we must resolve to go through thick and thin, rough and smooth; we must do as the Romans did, Rom. 6.17. Obey that form of Doctrine that is delivered to us; not one part only, but every particular, from the very heart. The reason for which we were delivered by our Saviour from the hands of our enemies, was, that we might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our lives,