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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, for those that have fallen unto earthly 1mindedness, let them learn with Philadelphia to repent, and to do their first works; that is, let them labour to get out of this condition.
Secondly, for those that have fallen unto earthly 1mindednesse, let them learne with Philadelphia to repent, and to doe their first workes; that is, let them labour to get out of this condition.
- 12 Those that have fallen. Revel. 3.
Thirdly, for those that have not yet tasted of the sweetness of Christ, let them here learn to be ashamed 1of themselves, because they have neglected so great salvation: and those that have had the means of grace a long time preached unto them in the evidence of the Spirit, and yet have not been renewed; that is, have not left their swinish disposition, may here be ashamed. But it is a hard matter to persuade the world of the truth of this point; the Ministers may speak and persuade, but it is God that must change the heart, and make the man willing to have his corruptions mortified. We speak but to two sorts of people, young men and old: First, young men when they are 2persuaded to forsake the world, they reply, It stands not with their youth to set upon this work; they are not able, or at least not willing, to leave their pleasure. Secondly, old men, when they are persuaded 3to forsake the world, reply also and say, They ⟨p. 63⟩