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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
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Secondly, what is meant by earthly members? By earthly members is meant all earthly affections; as immoderate 1cares, inordinate lusts; or it is a depraved disposition of the soul, whereby it is drawn from heavenly things to earthly; that is, it is drawn from a high valuing of heavenly things to a base esteem of them, and from a base esteeming of earthly things unto a high esteem of them, this is earthly mindedness. But for the better explaining of this point; first, we will show what it is to be earthly minded: secondly, what it is to be heavenly minded.
Secondly, what is meant by earthly members? By earthly members is ment al earthly affections; as immoderate 1cares, inordinare lusts; or it is a depraved disposition of the soule, whereby it is drawn from heavenly things to earthly; that is, it is drawne from a high valuing of heavenly things to a base esteeme of them, and from a base esteeming of earthly things unto a high esteeme of them, this is earthly mindednesse. But for the better explaining of this point; first, we will shew what it is to bee earthly minded: secondly, what it is to be heavenly minded.
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For the first, what it is to be earthly minded: It is to mind earthly things, or heavenly things in an earthly 1manner; that is, when the soul is depraved so of spiritual life that it looks upon grace and salvation with a carnal eye, when it is represented unto it; because it is but natural, it is not enlightened by the Spirit; now till a man be enlightened by the Spirit, he cannot see spiritual things in a spiritual manner. Howsoever, I grant that by the light of nature, a man being endued with a reasonable soul, thereby may come to discern of spiritual things, yet so as but by a common illumination of the Spirit, as we call it; not as they are, but only as he conceives of them by his natural reason: For first, by nature a man may conceive of spiritual things, but not spiritually; for nature can go no further than nature: now what is competible and agreeable to nature he hath a taste of, he sees things so far as they are suitable unto his nature; but nature can look no further; for this is the property of nature, it goes all by the outward sense and appetite; and no