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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 in the matter of sense between the superior 1and inferior faculties, the Schoolmen make a threefold difference. First, say they, that sense which the understanding or mind hath, is permanent, it lasts for ever, because the things themselves are permanent; it feels Grace, Justification, Remission of sins, it 2feels God, and Christ, and the Spirit; but the sense of the other faculties vanisheth and passeth away: As a man that hath for the present tasted a Sermon well, and another hath tasted a good work, or a good turn done, which in time are forgotten; the remembrance of them lasts not for ever. Secondly, these natural senses are but for the present; that which you now 3taste is present, that which you tasted before is gone, this is the nature of these faculties; but it is not thus with the understanding. Thirdly, these senses lessen through defect and weariness; a man will be weary ⟨p. 66⟩4with eating of honey, though it be pleasant unto the sense; a man is weary with meat, and with sleep, with rest, and with pleasure, when as these are delights, and very pleasant in the fruition; but over much of any of these makes them a burden: but the spiritual senses are not so, for they are endless; Justification, Remission of sins, and Reconciliation, are without end; therefore labour to find the sweetness that is in God, rest not till thou get the Spirit which brings grace into the heart; and do but talk with those that have tasted of this sweetness, that have first tasted of earthly things, and now have tasted of spiritual, and they will tell you of the excellency of the one above the other. Heb. 11. 14, &c. They declare plainly, that they seek 5a City, not in this world, for then they might return, but a heavenly place.
Now in the matter of sense betweene the superiour