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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.
in like manner it is […] heavenly ••i•ded man, he ⟨p. 98⟩will ever be asking the way home, (for indeed heaven is our proper home) and whether all be well at home; that is, if God and Christ, and the Spirit and the Saints be at amity with him: and in himself he will be inquiring if he find faith and repentance and peace of Conscience, if he feels that for matter of Justification and remission of sins he be well, he respects not the world, he cares not much what he meets withal, whether reproach and shame, penury or want, so he find no in lack of spiritual grace all is well with him. Therefore examine your selves whether you be heavenly minded or no by the esteem that you have of earthly members.
in like manner it is 〈…〉 heavenly ••i•ded man, he ⟨p. 98⟩will ever be asking the way home, (for indeed heaven is our proper home) and whether all be well at home; that is, if God and Christ, and the Spirit and the Saints be at amity with him: and in himselfe he will be inquiring if he find faith and repentance and peace of Conscience, if he feeles that for matter of Justification and remission of sins he be well, he respects not the world, hee cares not much what hee meets withall, whether reproach and shame, penury or want, so he find no inlacke of spirituall grace all is well with him. Therefore examine your selves whether you be heavenly minded or no by the esteeme that you have of earthly members.
The third sign whereby you may examine your selves whether you be earthly minded or no, is, by 1your spiritual taste, whether you relish heavenly or earthly things best: and therefore the Apostle saith, Rom. 85. they that are of the flesh do savour the things of the flesh, but they that are of the spirit the things of the spirit; that is, if the heart be regenerate it will taste a sweetness in nothing but in heavenly things, or at least nothing will be so sweet unto him; and on the contrary, they that are earthly minded they can find no sweetness in heavenly things. Now (as I said before) every faculty or habit hath an object in which it is delighted, whether it be unto good or unto evil, so that if the heart be regenerate then it will find sweetness in nothing but spiritual things, but if it be unregenerate then it can find no sweetness in heavenly things, neither can it wish them so well as earthly things. Therefore examine what you delight in, what delight you have of the hearing of the