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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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HOW TO MORTIFY FORNICATION.
HOW TO MORTIFIE FORNICATION.
Colossians 3. 1. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: Fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is Idolatry.
Colossians 3. 1. Mortifie therefore your members which are upon the earth: Fornication, uncleannesse, inordinate affection, evill concupiscence, and covetousnesse, which is Idolatry.
Having handled in general the Doctrine of Mortification, according to the Method of the Apostle, I am now come to descend to the considering of particulars, as they are laid down in my Text; and would speak of them in the order as they are ranked by the holy Spirit, but that the affinity and nearness betwixt three of these sins, namely, Fornication, Uncleanness, and evil Concupiscence, makes me to confound them, and promiscuously to mingle them together. Let us therefore consider first of the nature of every of these sins particularly by themselves, and afterward ⟨p. 117⟩make some use and application to our selves of them altogether.