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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, you shall know it by this, if there went a general reformation both in heart and life before, 1when the heart is generally set aright, is changed and renewed to good, and from thence 2doeth arise a dying to these lusts, then it is a good sign, but if otherwise there be no particulars changed in thee, then it is but a cessation, not a mortification, but when the whole frame of the ⟨p. 201⟩heart is altered, yea even from the very root, when the old man in the body of sin is wounded even to the heart, that is, when a man hath hath been soundly humbled for his sin, and afterwards hath his heart affected to Christ, and is come to love God, and hath his mind changed, then he may truly reckon it mortification.
First, you shall know it by this, if there went a generall reformation both in heart and life before, 1when the heart is generally set aright, is changed and renewed to good, and from thence 2doeth arise a dying to these lusts, then it is a good signe, but if otherwise there bee no particulars changed in thee, then it is but a cessation, not a mortification, but when the whole frame of the ⟨p. 201⟩heart is altered, yea even from the very roote, when the old man in the body of sinne is wounded even to the heart, that is, when a man hath hath beene soundly humbled for his sinne, and afterwards hath his heart affected to Christ, and is come to love God, and hath his mind changed, then he may truely reckon it mortification.
- 13. Signs of mortification.3. Signes of mortification.
- 21 Is a general reformation in heart and life