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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.
First, for the better understanding what it is, know that in the soul of man there is a facility, Secondly, there is an inclination, which doth adhere to the faculty, and thirdly there are actual desires which flow from that inclination, by way of Similitude, the 1better to conceive. First in the mouth there is a palate, secondly, the desired humour, and thirdly the taste; So in the soul of man, First, there is the natural affection, secondly, there is an inclination which is the tuneablenesse, or untuneablenesse of it, and thirdly, there is the desire, or actual works of it.
First, for the better understanding what it is, know that in the soule of man there is a facility, Secondly, there is an inclination, which doth adhere to the facultie, and thirdly there are actuall desires which flow from that inclination, by way of Similitude, the 1better to conceive. First in the mouth there is a pallate, secondly, the desired humour, and thirdly the tast; So in thesoule of man, First, there is the naturall affection, secondly, there is an inclination which is the tuneablenesse, or untuneablenesse of it, and thirdly, there is the desire, or actuall works of it.
- 1Simile.
By concupiscence is meant, the evil inclination, 1and the fruits of the evil inclination, and by it the habitual concupiscence, from whence the actual desires of evil will follow. Rom. 6. 12. Let not sin reign in your mortal bodies, that ye should obey it in the lust thereof. First there is a sin, secondly, the lust of that sin, and thirdly the obedience, that is consent to the sin. There is a concupiscence that is natural, and another that is moral. As there is a concupiscence that is bad, so is there another that is good, and a third that is neither good nor evil. There was in Christ a desire to live, though it were Gods will he should die, yet obeying, he did not sin. On fast days we are commanded so to do, yet the desire to taste corporal food on such a day is not sin.