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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.
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, 2 Sam. 12. 10, 11, 12. there the Lord saith, 3Because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite, to be thy wife; Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes and give them unto thy neighbour, and he ⟨p. 135⟩shall lye with thy wives in the sight of this Sun; for thou d didst it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the Sun. See the Justice of God in punishing; because David did it secretly, and used all manner of means to conceal it, as making Uriah drunk, and then sending him to his wife to lye with her, that so it might be hidden, yet God with-held him from her, and so brought it about that David had no way to cover his sin; therefore also because David laboured to keep it close and secret from all men, he will make his punishment public and manifest to all Israel: Again, God saith, Because thou hast despised me, &c. whence observe, in this secret committing of sin, a man doth despise God in a more especial manner; for he fears more the sight of men than the sight of God, in that he labours to conceal and hide it from the eyes of men, but cares not though God look on, as if he either would say nothing, or regarded not at all his sin: But God hath said, Them that honour me, 4I will honour; and they that despise me, shall be lightly esteemed: that is, they shall be despised.