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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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The fourth reason wherefore men will not set upon these corruptions, is, because of a false opinion and 1overvaluing of them, and therefore they think they do nothing in the getting of them but what they deserve, and that they are worthy their labour and pains.
The fourth reason wherefore men will not set upon these corruptions, is, because of a false opinion and 1overvaluing of them, and therefore they thinke they doe nothing in the getting of them but what they deserve, and that they are worthy their labour and paynes.
- 1Object. 4.Obiect. 4.
To this I answer; Let men look unto this, that they be not deceived in them, and compare them with the Scriptures: for if you judge of things as the Scripture doth, it will appear that the reason is false, but ⟨p. 70⟩if you do not, although they be vanity, yet they will deceive you whatsoever you esteem of them; for the truth is, that there is nothing in them but vexation of spirit; you shall find great enticements, and much evil in them: besides, they will fill your hands full of much evil and blood; that is, they will give thee no true Joy: for what joy hath the murderer of his murder? Now the reason wherefore they cannot give true Joy, is, because they are under the faculty of joy: As the eye is weary quickly with looking on a small print, but let the print be suitable unto it, 1then it will delight in it; so it is with the faculty of joy, if there were no weariness brought to it by them, then men would not be weary in the acquiring of them; but we see there is such an awkwardness in the minds of men for the getting of them, that it wears the mind, but satisfies it not.