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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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Secondly, you shall know whether your hearts be 1renewed by your Speeches: now this may seem but a slender sign of a renewed heart, because it is hard to judge aright by outward appearances, to know the sincerity of the hart by the speeches: yet seeing Christ makes it a sign of a renewed heart. I may the more safely follow him; our Saviour saith, Mat. 12. 34. 2that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh; that is, there is abundance in the heart either of good or evil: Now if the heart be full of heavenly mindedness, if, I say, this abundance that is in the heart be grace, then it will appear in the speeches; for the speeches do naturally flow from the affections that are in the heart; but if the abundance that is in the heart be evil, then the heart cannot but send out foul speeches and rotten communication; and therefore our Saviour saith, A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, nor an evil tree good fruit: it is unpossible ⟨p. 108⟩that a heart which doth abound, and is full of earthly mindedness, but it will break forth and appear by his speeches: the filthiness that is in his heart, if it have 3not vent, it will burst; as we know a new vessel that hath wine put into it, must have a vent or else it will burst; and by the vent you may know what wine it is: so, the speeches are the vent of the heart, and by them you may see what is in the heart; if grace be there, the speech s will favour of it, as a Cask will taste of that which is in it.
Secondly, you shall know whether your hearts be 1renewed by your Speeches: now this may seeme but a slender signe of a renewed heart, because it is hard to iudge aright by outward appearances, to know the sincerity of the hart by the speeches: yet seeing Christ makes it a signe of a renewed heart. I may the more safely follow him; our Saviour saith,