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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.
Fornication is one of the sins that are here to be mortified.1
- 1Doct. 2.
Fornication is a sin between two single persons, 1and in that it differs from Adultery: and although it be not altogether so heinous as Adultery, because by it the Covenant of God is not violated as by the other spoken of, Prov. 2. 17. neither find we the punishment absolutely to be death, yet it is a 2grievous sin, and to be feared, in that it subjects those men that are guilty of it, to the curse of God and damnation: for the Apostle saith 1 Cor. 6. 9. No fornicator shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; It deprives 3a man of happiness, banishes him out of ⟨p. 119⟩Gods kingdom into the dominion of the Devil, and territories of hell, never to be exempted from the intolerable torments of Gods eternal vengeance. But to lay open the heinousness of this sin, we will consider these four things:
Fornication is a sinne betweene two single persons, 1and in that it differs from Adultery: and although it be not altogether so haynous as Adultery, because by it the Covenant of God is not violated as by the other spoken of,