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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 inordinate affection.HOW TO MORTIFIE inordinate affection.
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.
Secondly, in this case it is good we make use of 1others eyes; a man sees not that in himself which a stander by doth, he is free from the affection which another is bent unto, and therefore another can better judge of it; as a man that is sick of a fever, he cannot judge aright of tastes, because he hath lost the sense of tasting, that which is sweet may seem bitter unto him; but he that is in health 2can judge of tastes as they are: therefore, it is good to make use of friends, and if we have no friends, it is wisdom in this case to make use of an enemy; that is, to observe what inordinateness hath been in them, and what hath happened unto them thereby, and so to judge of our own.
Secondly, in this case it is good wee make use of 1others eyes; a man sees not that in himselfe which a stander by doth, hee is free from the affection which another is bent unto, and therefore another can better judge of it; as a man that is sicke of a feaver, hee cannot judge aright of tasts, because hee hath lost the sense of tasting, that which is sweet may seeme bitter unto him; but he that is in health 2can judge of tasts as they are: therefore, it is good to make use of friends, and if we have no friends, it is wisedome in this case to make use of an enemy; that is, to observe what inordinatnesse hath beene in them, and what hath happened unto them therby, and so to judge of our owne.
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And this is the first thing that I will commend unto you, to labour to see your affections, and to be convinced of them; when this is done, in the next place we will come to see the causes of inordinate affections; and seeing we are applying medicines, as we shall see the causes of inordinate affections, so to each of them we shall add their remedies.