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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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To this I answer, That it is an unseasonable thing, 1I say, a thing not seemly, that the Word be mixed with humane Eloquence; for the pure Word should be purely delivered: and the Apostle saith, 2 Corinth. 4. 5. I Preach not my self unto you; that is, I sought not mine own praise by using Eloquence of words, but I Preach the Word purely, without any mixture of any thing with it: again, he saith, 2 Cor. 1. 17. When I came among you, I came not in the enticing words of mans wisdom, lest the Cross of Christ 2should be of none effect: that is, I came not with words more for show than for substance; he calls the Preaching of the Word that hath any thing mixed with it, wh•ther Wit or Eloquence, but enticing words, such words as do rather feed the humour, 3than work upon the conscience of a man. Now a man is said to be enticed, when he is drawn away from that which is good, unto that which is either evil absolutely, or else not so good as that from which he is drawn; and the truth is, he that seth Eloquence in the preaching