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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.
A Sum of the principal matters contained in the second Treatise.
A Summe of the principall matters contained in the second Treatise.
Christ proves himself to be the Son of God, in that he can quicken the dead. pag. 51 What our estate is, being out of Christ. p. 53 What spiritual death is. p. 54, and 57 The cause of life, p. 56 Three kinds of spiritual death. p. 57 The signs of death, four. p. 58 The degrees of spiritual death. p. 60 Great difference between spiritual and natural dead. p. 62 Spiritual death voluntary. p. 63 A twofold image of God in man. ibid Why the Law is given to men that are spiritually death. p. 66 Difference between external bodily binding, and the bands of sin. p. 67 The great Quaere or question that every man is to make concerning himself. p. 68 Two hindrances of this search. p. 69 The new spiritual life worketh a change in men. p. 70 ⟨image 4⟩How Christ should be the end and scope of all our actions. p. 72 •he characters and marks of men spiritually dead. p. 73, and 79 Repentance makes a dead man to be a living man; and therefore not to be delayed. p. 83 Natural men are but dead men, what excellencies soever they have. p. 84 How to value the Ordinances of God. p. 85 That all who are in Christ, are in a state of life. p. 88 From whom, and with what, this life is hidden from natural men. p. 89 The Saints misreported and evil spoken of. p. 90 Men are hardly persuaded, that there is such a new spiritual life of grace. p. 91, and 94 Proofs of it, besides or without the Scriptures, ibid The effects and experience of a new spiritual life. p. 92 Differences between superstition and the moral life; and this new spiritual life of grace. p. 93, &c. Common and true Grace, wherein they differ. p. 95 Signs to know the spiritual life of grace by; and the comparing it with the natural life. p. 96, and 59 What is expected and required of them, to whom this talent of the new life of grace is committed. p. 98