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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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But some will say unto me, that eloquence and wit 1is an ornament unto the word, it lets forth the excellency of the word the more; therefore if it be such an ornament unto the word then it out to be used, otherwaies the excellency of the word will not appear.
But some will say unto me, that eloquence and wit 1is an ornament unto the word, it lets forth the excellency of the word the more; therefore if it be such an ornament unto the word then it out to be used, otherwaies the excellency of the word will not appeare.
- 1Object. 1. Eloquence no ornament to the word.Obiect. 1. Eloquence no ornament to the word.
To this I answer, that humane wit and eloquence 1is so far from setting forth the excellency of the word, as it obscures the excellency of it: I say, there 2is no Art, Science, Tongue, Knowledge or eloquence in the world that hath such excellency in them as the word hath, whether you respect the Author, God, or ⟨p. 100⟩the Inditer, the holy Spirit; or the matter of it, Christ and his righteousness. Again, the stile the Spirit uses in setting down the phrases of the Scripture, shows plainly that it is excellent of it self, now if any thing be added unto a thing that is excellent, either the thing must be as excellent, or else it detracts from the excellency of it; but there is no man but will confess that the Word is the most excellent thing in the world, therefore it must follow, that Eloquence adds not to the excellency of the Word.