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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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The fifth and last Deceit, whereby our cunning adversary, 1the Devil, labours to beguile us withal, is, Hope of secrecy: Men commit this in private, no spectators, no secretaries shall be entrusted therewith, the innermost closets, and most retired rooms, are the places destinated for this work, and the time commonly is the most obscure and blackest season, the night; and indeed not unfitly, for it is a deed of darkness: yet let all such as be guilty hereof, let them lay to heart these following considerations:
The fifth and last Deceit, whereby our cunning adversary, 1the Devill, labours to beguile us withall, is, Hope of secrecie: Men commit this in private, no spectators, no secretaries shall be intrusted therewith, the innermost closets, and most retired roomes, are the places destinated for this worke, and the time commonly is the most obscure and blackest season, the night; and indeed not unfitly, for it is a deed of darknesse: yet let all such as be guilty hereof, let them lay to heart these following considerations:
- 1Deceit 5. Hope of secrecy.Deceit 5. Hope of secrecie.
Consider first, though they be never so private and 1secret in it, yet God sees it; they cannot shut out his eyes, though they may the light of the Sun; he knows it, and then it shall be revealed: that which is said of Alms, Mat. 6. 4. may very truly be said of this, Thy Father which seeth in secret, himself shall reward 2thee openly: so, God that seeth thy secret Adultery or Fornication, he will reward it, he will punish it openly. See i for example in Davids adultery with Bathsheba,