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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.
The second thing which we note, is this:
And this also the Apostle makes another ground of Mortification; if you be risen with Christ, seek heavenly things, and therefore labour to mortify your inordinate affections, and sinful lusts, that so the frame of your hearts, and disposition thereof, may suit with heavenly things: as if he should say, You profess your selves to be risen with Christ; that is, that you are in a more excellent estate than you were in by nature, and you expect a perfection of glory; then it must needs follow, That the frame of your hearts must suit with your conditions; that is, you must be such as you profess your selves to be; and this cannot be, except you mortify sin, all inordinate affections, all worldly lusts, all immoderate care for earthly things: think not to get grace, salvation, and eternal life, except first you slay your corruptions and lusts; for Mortification is a turning of the heart from evil to good, from sin to grace: or, it is a 1working a new disposition in the heart, turning it quite contrary: Or else it may be said to be ⟨p. 5⟩