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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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Consider secondly, the divers and manifold ways God hath to reveal it, though men be never so close 1and secret, and use all possible means to hide their sin, as fair outward civility, a seeming to hate such 2 filthy notorious wickedness, or any thing else an hypocritical heart can invent, yet God hath su• dry ways to detect their filthiness, and lay open their hypocrisy: As first, by sensible things, when there is no person near to see it, yet the v•ry birds and beasts have revealed it: secondly, he gives them up to a reprobate sense; and then in the end, though they have ⟨p. 136⟩long lien in it unseen and ansuspected, at last they become sh•melesi•, and so lye open to every mans discovery: thirdly, he can make any man living to reveal his own sin, as we see in Judas, though all the time he was working his wickedness he had carried the business close enough, yet in the conclusion, when he had brought the business to pass, and in all probability it being now finished, should never be concealed, even then he must confess it, he must tell it every body: in like manner, it will be our case, though we keep our filthiness never so private, yet God can make us in the end on our death-beds confess it, though all our life before we have hidden it.
Consider secondly, the divers and manifold wayes God hath to reveale it, though men bee never so close 1and secret, and useall possible meanes to hide their sinne, as faire outward civility, a seeming to hate such 2 filthy notorious wickednesse, or any thing else an hypocriticall heart can invent, yet God hath su• dry wayes to detect their filthinesse, and lay open their hypocrisie: As first, by sensible things, when there is no person neere to see it, yet the v•ry birds and beasts have revealed it: secondly, hee gives them up to a reprobate sense; and then in the end, though they have ⟨p. 136⟩