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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.
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.
By concupiscence is meant, the evill inclination, 1and the fruits of the evill inclination, and by it the habituall concupiscence, from whence the actuall desires of evill will follow. Rom. 6. 12. Let not sinne raigne in your mortall bodies, that yee should obey it in the lust thereof. First there is a sinne, secondly, the lust of that sinne, and thirdly the obedience, that is consent to the sinne. There is a concupiscence that is naturall, and another that is morall. As there is a concupiscence that is bad, so is there another that is good, and a third that is neither good nor evill. There was in Christ a desire to live, though it were Gods will he should die, yet obeying, hee did not sinne. On fast dayes we are commanded so to doe, yet the desire to tast corporall food on such a day is not sinne.
- 1What's meant by concupiscence.
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