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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.
In the first verse he begins with an exhortation to seek heavenly things; If you be risen with Christ, seek ⟨p. 2⟩those things that are above: that is, if you be risen with Christ, and dead unto the fashions of men, then there is an alteration and change in your souls wrought, by which you are brought to affect that which is heavenly, and basely to esteem of earthly things: therefore, If you be risen; that is, if this heavenly life, and disposition, and change be in you, then let the same appear by your heavenly mindedness; that is, by seeking of heavenly things.
In the first verse he beginnes with an exhortation to seeke heavenly things; If you be risen with Christ, seeke ⟨p. 2⟩those things that are above: that is, if you be risen with Christ, and dead unto the fashions of men, then there is an alteration and change in your soules wrought, by which you are brought to affect that which is heavenly, and basely to esteeme of earthly things: therefore, If you be risen; that is, if this heavenly life, and disposition, and change be in you, then let the same appeare by your heavenly mindednesse; that is, by seeking of heavenly things.
In the second verse he joins another exhortation grounded on the first, to be wise and to understand them; Set your affections on things above: that is, let them be specially minded of you, let all your faculties be filled with a knowledge of spiritual things; and this is so joined with the former, that there can be no seeking without knowing; for how can a man seek that which he knoweth not? and if thou hast no knowledge of heaven, and heavenly things, how canst thou desire them? seeing where there is no desire, there is no seeking: And therefore if thou wouldest seek heavenly things, as Christ, and Grace, and Salvation, then know them first.
In the second verse he joynes another exhortation grounded on the first, to bee wise and to understand them; Set your affections on things above: that is, let them be specially minded of you, let all your faculties bee filled with a knowledge of spirituall things; and this is so joyned with the former, that there can be no seeking without knowing; for how can a man seeke that which he knoweth not? and if thou hast no knowledge of heaven, and heavenly things, how canst thou desire them? seeing where there is no desire, there is no seeking: And therefore if thou wouldest seeke heavenly things, as Christ, and Grace, and Salvation, then know them first.