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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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Fourthly, Use abstinence and fasting, for thereby thou mayst get the mastery over thy sin; give it altogether 1peremptory denials, suffer it not to delight thee in the least cogitation and tickling conceit: It will be easy to abstain from it, when the denial is peremptory; if we cannot put out a spark, how shall we put out a flame? If we get not the mastery over the first motion to sin, much less shall we be able to overcome it when it is brought to maturity in action: Sin is like the water, give it the least way and we cannot stay it, run it will in despite of us: and 2as a stream riseth by little and little, one shower increasing ⟨p. 148⟩it, and another making it somewhat bigger; so sin riseth by degrees. Jam. 1. 14, 15. it is said, But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own 3lust and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death: Where observe three degrees in sin; first, temptation; secondly, conception; and thirdly, perturbation, or bringing forth: So also Hebr. 3. it is said of the Israelites, that lust in them brought forth hardness of heart. Beware therefore of the beginnings and occasions of sin, and accustom thy self to use abstinence, thereby to master thy lust.
Fourthly, Use abstinencie and fasting, for thereby thou mayst get the mastery over thy sinne; give it altogether 1peremptory denials, suffer it not to delight thee in the least cogitation and tickling conceit: It will be easie to abstaine feom it, when the deniall is peremptory; if we cannot put out a sparke, how shall we put out a flame? If wee get not the mastery over the first motion to sinne, much lesse shall wee be able to overcome it when it is brought to maturity in action: Sinne is like the water, give it the least way and we cannot stay it, runne it will in despight of us: and