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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.
You will say, this is strange, must all be new?1
- 1Quest.
1My beloved, you know the words they are clear; Old things are passed away, 2all things are become new. (In the same place which I quoted before) that as the command was in the offering of the Passover, not a jot of old leaven, but we must part with it; Now this is the nature of leaven, it is always purging out, and it will be purging out while we are here, only the efficacy and strength thereof remains not. Then think with thy self, is all new in me? look what natural disposition I have had: look what natural lusts and desires I have had, see what acts I was wont to do, what old haunts and customs I have had, look what old company I kept, what old courses I took, what my tract hath been, is all this altered and every thing become new? ⟨p. 298⟩(for,3 saith he, it must be a new creature, a new nature:) That is, it is not enough for a man to have a new course for a fit, to have new purposes and a new change that comes like flashes, I say, that is not enough; you may have many new things in you, that may be in old hearts, like pieces of new cloth in old garments, that will do thee no good at all;4 the Lord regards not that: like new wine in old vessels, so it is where there are some new things, that are good things in themselves; in a carnal and old heart, they are not fit for the heart, and therefore they never stay long there: So saith the text, Put a new piece into an old garment, and it makes the rent greater.