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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.
But some man will say, I read of some of the Saints that have fallen into this sin, and that grievously, 1why then may not the dear children of God fall again into it?
But some man will say, I read of some of the Saints that have fallen into this sinne, and that grievously, 1why then may not the deare children of God fall againe into it?
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To this I answer, Indeed it is possible, for we find it in the Scripture of David and Solomon, that they fell; 1nay more, it hath many times so come to pass that they have fallen grievously, as in them before mentioned, and many others; yet as we read of their falls, so we read of their recovery out of it, they did not continue in it. Here therefore I will set down the means against it: And they shall be,2
To this I answer, Indeed it is possible, for we find it in the Scripture of David and Salomon, that they fell; 1nay more, it hath many times so come to passe that they have fallen grievously, as in them before mentioned, and many others; yet as wee read of their falls, so we read of their recovery out of it, they did not continue in it. Here therefore I will set downe the meanes against it: And they shall be,2
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