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Sins overthrow
Sins overthrow: or, A godly and learned treatise of mortification Wherein is excellently handled; first, the general doctrine of mortification: and then particularly, how to mortify fornication. Uncleanness. Evil concupiscence. Inordinate affection. and, covetousness. All being the substance of several sermons upon Colos. III. V. Mortify therefore your members, &c. 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.Sins overthrow: or, A godly and learned treatise of mortification Wherein is excellently handled; first, the generall doctrine of mortification: and then particularly, how to mortifie fornication. Vncleannes. Evill concupiscence. Inordinate affection. and, covetousnes. All being the substance of severall sermons upon Colos. III. V. Mortifie therefore your members, &c. Delivered by that late faithfull preacher, and worthy instrument of Gods glory Iohn Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Majestie, master of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes-Inne.
London: printed by I. Beale and Augustine Mathewes 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.
But you will say, How can the Spirit of Christ, which is the holy Ghost, dwell in the heart, seeing he 1is in heaven?
- 1Object. 2.Obiect. 2.
To this I answer, that the Spirit dwells in the heart, 1as the Sun in a house; now we know that the proper 2place of the Sun is in the Firmament, yet we say the Sun is in the house, not that we mean 3that the body of the Sun is there, but the beams of the Sun are there in the house: so we say, that the proper place of the holy Ghost is in heaven; and when we say he is in the heart of a regenerate man, we do not mean essentially, but by a divine power and nature; that is, by sending his Spirit into the heart, not only to work grace in the heart, but to dwell therein. Now when the Spirit hath taken possession of the heart, it draws and expels away all the ⟨p. 39⟩darkness of the mind, and makes it to look and to see Christ in a more excellent manner than before, assuring him of perfect Justification, and remission of his sins.
To this I answer, that the Spirit dwells in the heart, 1as the Sunne in a house; now we know that the proper 2place of the Sunne is in the Firmament, yet wee say the Sunne is in the house, not that wee meane