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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.
Again, it causes a great elongation from God, it 1makes a strangeness betwixt God and us; all sin is an aversion from God, it turns a man quite away from him, but this sin more than any other, it is more delighted in, we have a greater delight in the acting of this sin than in any other, and therefore ⟨p. 120⟩it is a most grievous sin.
Againe, it causes a great elongation from God, it 1makes a strangenesse betwixt God and us; all sinne is an aversion from God, it turnes a man quite away from him, but this sinne more than any other, it is more delighted in, wee have a greater delight in the acting of this sinne than in any other, and therefore ⟨p. 120⟩it is a most grievous sinne.
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Furthermore, the greatness of this sin appears, in that it is commonly a punishment of other sins; according to that of the Apostle, Rom. 1. 21. and 24. 1compared together, where he saith, Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, &c. wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves. To the same purpose is that of the Preacher, Eccles. 7. 26. where speaking of the enticing