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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.
there is also a power in it, consider whether any such virtue hath gone out from Christ to make the knowledge which thou hast, powerful.
there is also a power in it, consider whether any such vertue hath gone out from Christ to make the knowledge which thou hast, powerfull.
You will say, what is that?
12That is, to bring on these truths which thy heart assents unto, to bring them with that evidence, and fullness of demonstration, that thou shalt yield unto them, and practise them according to thy knowledge. Beloved, there is much knowledge among us, but who practiseth according to his knowledge? We know God, but we glorify him not as God;3 and the reason is, because there hath not gone a power with that knowledge, to make it lively and effectual, to pass through all the faculties of the soul, and to overrule them; for if there were such knowledge, it would always draw affection and practise with it. So likewise consider, whether there hath gone a power from him to mortify thy lusts, (Whosoever is in Christ hath crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts;4) not to lay them asleep ⟨p. 305⟩only, but to mortify and subdue them. See likewise whether there hath a power gone out from Christ, to help thee to overcome the world, The lusts of thine eyes, the lusts of the flesh, and the pride of life;