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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.
First, sin may seem to be mortified when the occasion is removed: As the covetous man may not be ⟨p. 7⟩1so covetous after the world as he was, because he hath not so good an opportunity, and thereupon he may grow remiss; and yet this sin of Covetousness is not mortified; for let there be occasion, or an opportunity offered, and you shall find this sin as quick and as lively in him as ever it was before; and so for Drunkenness, or any other vice in this kind: when the occasion is removed, the sin may be removed, and yet not mortified.
First, sinne may seeme to be mortified when the occasion is removed: As the covetous man may not bee ⟨p. 7⟩1so covetous after the world as he was, because he hath not so good an opportunity, and thereupon hee may grow remisse; and yet this sinne of Covetousnesse is not mortified; for let there be occasion, or an opportunity offered, and you shall finde this sinne as quicke and as lively in him as ever it was before; and so for Drunkennesse, or any other vice in this kinde: when the occasion is removed, the sinne may be removed, and yet not mortified.
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Secondly, sin may be mortified seemingly, when it is not violent, but quiet; that is, when an unruly 1affection troubles them not, they think that now that sin is mortified; but they are deceived, for it is with sin, as with a disease; A man that is sick of a fever, so long as he is asleep he feels no pain, because 2sleep takes away the sense of it; but when he is awake, then presently he feels his pain afresh: Even so, when sin doth awake them out of sleep, then they shall find it was not mortified, but they only asleep. Sampson,