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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.
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True it is Gods children, David, Peter, Solomon, & other holy men, have had concupiscences in them but yet were not domineered over by them; So long as a man doth strive against evil concupiscences, against the motions and stirrings of them, and that his own conscience can bear him witness, he doeth resist them in sincerity of heart, they shall never bear sway over him: Take the best actions of a wicked man, the utmost end of them are to himself, and if the utmost end be bad, all he doth must ⟨p. 193⟩needs be bad, as for example. The end that a husbandman 1doeth aim at in tilling of the ground and sowing of his seed corn, is to have a good harvest, and if his harvest prove bad, then all his labour is lost, though the beginnings of a thing be good, yet if the utmost end of that thing be naught, all is bad; So that the end of all things in moral actions, doeth make the thing either good or bad: Every wicked man doth seek himself in all his actions, he doth worship himself in the utmost end of all his thoughts, so that all his actions, lusts, and desires, are evil continually.
True it is Gods children, David, Peter, Solomon, & other holy men, have had concupiscences in them but yet were not domineered over by them; So long as a man doth strive against evill concupiscences, against the motions and stirrings of them, and that his owne conscience can beare him witnesse, he doeth resist them in sincerity of heart, they shall never beare sway over him: Take the best actions of a wicked man, the utmost end of them are to himselfe, and if the utmost end be bad, all hee doth must ⟨p. 193⟩needes be bad, as for example. Th'end that a husbandman 1doeth ayme at in tilling of the ground and sowing of his seed corne, is to have a good harvest, and if his harvest prove bad, then all his labour is lost, though the beginnings of a thing be good, yet if the utmost end of that thing be naught, all is bad; So that th'end of all things in morall actions, doeth make the thing either good or bad: Every wicked man doth seeke himselfe in all his actions, hee doth worshippe himselfe in the utmost ende of all his thoughts, so that all his actions, lusts, and desires, are evill continually.