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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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Fourthly, it may do much good by the ruling of 1them, for the understanding is the superior faculty of the soul, and therefore it becomes a guide unto the rest: now if the understanding be enlightened (as I told you) it doth communicate his light by redundancy unto the rest of the faculties, then it must needs follow that the understanding being enlightened truly with grace, and the other faculties partaking thereof, they must needs be ruled by it. Every inferior is ruled by his superior, or at least should be so; so every faculty should be subordinate unto the mind: now if there be a rebellion in them, it is the disorder of the soul, as the other is the disorder of the State. Thus much for the explaining of these points, namely, what it is to be earthly minded, and what it is to be heavenly minded.
Fourthly, it may doe much good by the ruling of 1them, for the understanding is the superiour faculty of the soule, and therefore it becomes a guide unto the rest: now if the understanding be enlightned (as I told you) it doth communicate his light by redundancy unto the rest of the faculties, then it must needs follow that the understanding being enlightned truly with grace, and the other faculties partaking thereof, they must needs be ruled by it. Every inferiour is ruled by his superiour, or at least should be so; so every faculty should be subordinate unto the minde: now if there be a rebellion in them, it is the disorder of the soule, as the other is the disorder of the State. Thus much for the explaining of these points, namely, what it is to be earthly minded, and what it is to be heavenly minded.
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The first Use then shall be, to reprove sharply such 1as favour the members of this body, and are inordinately affected with this earthly mindedness, such also as cannot deny these members any thing that is pleasant unto them, whereas they should be suppressed and mortified by the Spirit. The rich man feeds these members with his riches, the covetous man with his covetousness, the proud man with his pride, and the ambitious man with his vain-glory, when as these are their greatest enemies, howsoever they are cozened by them; but if they did but know, if they were but truly enlightened with grace, they would perceive the evil of these members, and how great an enemy this earthly mindedness were unto them, and then