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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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Again, Hope of after-repentance doth lead many men on to the commission of this sin; they hope they may repent before death, it is a great while till this come, therefore time enough to do this in. But this God hath threatened you heard even now in the ⟨p. 127⟩place above-mentioned, I pray consider of it. Balaam his desire was but to dye the death of the righteous, therefore he perished among Gods enemies; he desired it, and whilst he remained only desiring, without any labour to live the life of the righteous, God justly punished him with an utter overthrow: as he did with those, Isaiah 28. 15, who said, We have made 1a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: These men thought all sure, nothing could come to hurt them, they are as well as any man; for they had an agreement with hell and death, neither should the scourge meddle with them: but these were but their own thoughts, they reckoned without their host, as we use to say; for see what God saith to them, vers. 18. Your Covenant with death shall be dis annulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it: They might contrive, but he would dispose; though they did think all well, and hope for peace and quietness, yet he would disannul their covenant, and break off their agreement, so that the overflowing scourge, that is, sudden destruction should take hold of them, and utterly confound them. Ammon going to his brother Absalom's feast, little thought to have been so soon cut off; Shechem preparing himself for a wife, never thought of a funeral; neither is it likely that Korah and his company thought their tent-doors should be their graves; I warrant you they hoped for repentance, yet this sudden destruction took away all possibility of repenting from them. God threateneth such, Ezek. 24. 13. Because ⟨p. 128⟩2I have purged thee and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee. And indeed we cannot repent unless God sends his Spirit into our hearts, and he will not send his Spirit into such an heart as hath filthiness in it: Will any man put liquor into a glass where Toads and Spiders are?