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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
HOW TO MORTIFY EVIL CONCUPISCENCE.HOVV TO MORTIFIE EVILL CONCVPISCENCE.
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.
There are evil inclinations in a good man, and yet it is by way of Antithesis, it is not his complexion and constitution to have them. Now an evil man hath concupiscence, and the same is his complexion, and constitution so to be: Therefore if evil concupiscence be not mortified, it makes a man to be bad, and in this regard we ought to cleanse our selves from the pollution of this sin.
There are evill inclinations in a good man, and yet it is by way of Antithesis, it is not his complexion and constitution to have them. Now an evill man hath concupiscence, and the same is his complexion, and constitution so to be: Therefore if evill concupiscence be not mortified, it makes a man to be bad, and in this regard wee ought to cleanse our selves from the pollution of this sinne.
The third reason is, Evil concupiscence being in a man, it doth mar all his good actions. To mingle 1water with wine, it makes the wine the worse; To mingle ⟨p. 189⟩dross with silver, it makes the silver the more impure; So evil concupiscence being in the Soul of a man, it doth stain and blemish his good actions; when the string of an Instrument is out of tune; then the Music doth jar. A man that hath strong concupiscence in him, he will desire to come to the execution of the works of them, and so it will have an influence to the effect, and will stain and blemish any good work he goes about; so that evil concupiscence making a man to be evil, it doth blemish and stain all the good actions that man goes about, in that he doth perform them either with vainglory or self respect.
The third reason is, Evill concupiscence being in a man, it doth marre all his good actions. To mingle 1water with wine, it makes the wine the worse; To mingle ⟨p. 189⟩