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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.
Now least we be deceived in our love to the creature, I will give you these four signs to know, whether your love to it be right or no.
Now least we bee deceived in our love to the creature, I will give you these foure signes to know, whether your love to it bee right or no.
First, see if your affections to the creature cause you to withdraw your hearts from God. Jer. 17.5. Cursed be the man that maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD: It is a sign we make flesh, our arm, when as we withdraw our hearts from God; we make the creature our ⟨p. 29⟩aim, when as it withdraws us from God. 1 Tim. 5.5. She that is a Widow indeed, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications night and day: This is a sign that they trusted in God, not in the creature, because they pray unto him. Consider what your conversation is, whether it be in heaven or no: Phil. 3.20. Our conversation is in heaven: the neglecting and not minding of earthly things in the former verse, showed him not to be of an earthly conversation. The more our hearts are drawn from God, the more are they fixed and set on earthly things.
First, see if your affections to the creature cause you to withdraw your hearts from God. Ier. 17.5. Cursed bee the man that maketh flesh his arme, and whose heart departeth from the LORD: It is a signe wee make flesh, our arme, when as wee withdraw our hearts from God; we make the creature our ⟨p. 29⟩