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A lifeless lifeA liveles life
A lifeless life: or, Mans spiritual death in sin Wherein is both learnedly and profitably handled these four doctrines the spiritual death in sin. The doctrine of humiliation. Mercy to be found in Christ. Continuance in sin, dangerous. Being the substance of several sermons upon Ephes. 2. 1,2,3. And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins, &c. Whereunto is annexed a profitable sermon at Lincolns Inn, on Gen. XXII. XIV. Delivered by that late faithful preacher, and worthy instrument of Gods glory, John Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, master of Emanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolns-Inn.A liveles life: or, Mans spirituall death in sinne Wherein is both learnedly and profitably handled these foure doctrines the spirituall death in sinne. The doctrine of humiliation. Mercy to be found in Christ. Continuance in sinne, dangerous. Being the substance of severall sermons upon Ephes. 2. 1,2,3. And you hath he quickned, who were dead in trespasses and sins, &c. Whereunto is annexed a profitable sermon at Lincolnes Inne, on Gen. XXII. XIV. Delivered by that late faithful preacher, and worthy instrument of Gods glory, Iohn Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Maiesty, master of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes-Inne.
London: printed by I. Beale for Andrew Crooke, 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.
Now there are certain signs arising from both these, and they are 1. Positive. 2. Privative.
Now there are certaine signes arising from both these, and they are 1. Positive. 2. Privative.
First, All those which live any life, whatsoever it be,1 seek such things as are agreeable to preserve that life, and hate the contrary: as a man that liveth a natural life, looketh for food, raiment, &c. so in the life of grace, there is an aptness to cleave unto goodness, and unto Christ, as iron doth to the Lodestone: So a man that lives the life of grace, his delight is in praying, hearing, reading, &c. but his lusts, they are aegritudines animae, the souls sicknesses; they are as thorns to his sides, and smoke to his eyes, and he is never well or at quiet, until they are removed and gone: but a wicked man, one that is dead in sin, he is sick of goodness (as the other is of wickedness) and ⟨p. 25⟩