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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 means, if you would get heavenly mindedness, ⟨p. 79⟩1is this, Labour to get a sight into the All-sufficiency of God: Remember what the Lord said unto 2Abraham, I am God All-sufficient; walk before me and be upright. God is an All-sufficient God for general good; things of this life are at the best but particular good; as health is a particular good against sickness, wealth and riches a particular good against poverty, honour and credit a particular good against disgrace; but God is a general good, and the fountain of all goodness: other things are but created, like cisterns, that good they have is put in them; therefore the Lord complains of the people, Jer. 2. 13. They 3have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and have digged to themselves Cisterns that will hold no water; that is, they have forsaken God the fountain of all good, and have chosen unto themselves the creatures, that have no more good than that which comes from God, the fountain: As a man that forsakes a fountain that continually runs, and betakes himself to a cracked Cistern that hath no water but that which cometh from the fountain, and is also subject to lose his water; so when men set their hearts on earthly things, they forsake God who is All-sufficient for them, and seek to his Creatures which are insufficient and unable to help themselves: therefore you ought to think of these things to the end you may be heavenly minded.
The fourth meanes, if you would get heavenly mindednesse, ⟨p. 79⟩1is this, Labour to get a sight into the All-sufficiencie of God: Remember what the Lord said unto 2Abraham, I am God All-sufficient; walke before me and bee upright. God is an All-sufficient God for generall good; things of this life are at the best but particular good; as health is a particular good against sicknesse, wealth and riches a particular good against poverty, honour and credit a particular good against disgrace; but God is a generall good, and the fountaine of all goodnesse: other things are but created, like cisternes, that good they have is put in them; therefore the Lord complaines of the people,