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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.
Now they are called members for these reasons:1
- 1Why called members.
The first reason is, because these base affections fill up the heart; that is, they make the heart fit for all 1manner of sin, even as the members of the body make the body fit for action: now we know that the body is not perfect, if the members be not perfect; so when the heart is not filled with these members, it may be fit for sin but not for every sin, but this filling of it makes it fit for all sin; and therefore the ⟨p. 44⟩Apostle saith, 2 Pet. 1. 3. According to his divine power he hath given us all things; that is, by his divine nature we all come to the knowledge of the Faith: now that 2which is contrary to the Spirit, and the knowledge of him, is made up by these base affections, even as the body is made up and complete by its members.
The first reason is, because these base affections fill up the heart; that is, they make the heart fit for all 1manner of sinne, even as the members of the body make the body fit for action: now wee know that the body is not perfect, if the members bee not perfect; so when the heart is not filled with these members, it may be fit for sinne but not for every sinne, but this filling of it makes it fit for all sinne; and therefore the ⟨p. 44⟩Apostle saith,