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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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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 2woman, whose heart is snares and nets, &c. he saith, Who so pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her: that is, whosoever committeth sin shall in this be punished, that he shall be entrapped and ensnared by the subtle enticements of the dishonest woman. So also, Prov. 22. 14. The mouth of strange women is a deep pit, he that is abhorred of the Lord 3shall fall therein: Now all sin of this kind, and consequently sinners, are abhorred of the Lord, and therefore he will punish them in letting them tumble into this deep pit of strange women here, and hereafter without repentance into the bottomless pit of everlasting destruction: As long as the Lord looks for any fruit of any man, he keeps him from this pit; but such as notwithstanding all his watering, pruning, and dressing, will bring forth no fruit, with those the Lord is angry, they shall fall into it. Now as in a ladder, or any thing that hath steps to ascend and descend by, that stair unto which another leads, must needs be higher than the rest; so in sin, that sin unto which other lead, as to a punishment, must needs be ⟨p. 121⟩greater, and of an higher nature than the other: and therefore this sin is a most grievous sin.
Furthermore, the greatnesse of this sinne appeares, in that it is commonly a punishment of other sinnes; according to that of the Apostle,