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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.
The word of God which you hear is not lost, it shall certainly do you hurt if not good, it shall harden if it do not soften: It is an ill sign if a tree do not bud in the spring, but to see it without leaves in the Winter is no wonder at all; So for any to hear the word of God powerfully preached, and not to have good wrought on them by it; they have great cause to fear their estates, It is this meditating 1and taking to heart, which is the first means I prescribe for mortification.
The word of God which you heare is not lost, it shall certainly doe you hurt if not good, it shall harden if it doe not soften: It is an ill signe if a tree doe not bud in the spring, but to see it without leaves in the Winter is no wonder at all; So for any to heare the word of God powerfully preached, and not to have good wrought on them by it; they have great cause to feare their estates, It is this meditating 1and taking to heart, which is the first means I prescribe for mortification.
- 1Meditation and laying to heart, is the means to mortification.
We are said, secondly, to mortify, when we suppress 1and keep down those lusts, if we keep them back from their courses, that they do not bring forth the fruit of Sin: All actions when any Sin is executed, they tend to evil corruptions. If we abstain from the action of Sin, then it ⟨p. 197⟩doth kill the very inclination. Take any Sin that a man is naturally inclined unto; whether it be the Sin of uncleanness, the desire of Riches, or whatsoever, Custom doth make his lusts to be stronger, and so doth add to the Sin, One light doth show a thing to be so, but more lights do make it appear more clear; so there is an addition in Sin as well as in grace, the more they act in Sin, the more they increase.