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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.
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The second way to rectify misapprehension, is by faith; for, by faith we are to believe the vanity of 1these earthly things, & we are to believe the power of God, who is able to blow upon them, and to cause them to wither; so that faith is a great cause to rectify the apprehension, as well as reason: Paul counted the best things of the world, but dross and dung; and Moses cared not for the pleasures of Egypt; it was their faith that caused them to do so, they did believe the true privilege they had in Christ: this doth raise up the heart, and cause us more and more to see the things that are earthly, how slippery and flitting they are.
The second way to rectifie misapprehension, is by faith; for, by faith we are to beleeve the vanity of 1these earthly things, & we are to beleeve the power of God, who is able to blow upon them, and to cause them to wither; so that faith is a great cause to rectifie the apprehension, as well as reason: Paul counted the best things of the world, but drosse and dung; and Moses cared not for the pleasures of Egypt; it was their faith that caused them to doe so, they did beleeve the true priviledge they had in Christ: this doth raise up the heart, and cause us more and more to see the things that are earthly, how slippery and flitting they are.
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The third way to rectify mis-apprehension is experience; we are not so much as to touch us of 1that thing we have found to be true by experience: ⟨p. 231⟩let a soldier be told of dangerous effects in the wars, persuade him what you will, and tell him how terrible it is, he will not believe, till by experience he hath felt the smart of it: so when a man is entered upon the doing of any difficult thing, which he hath been accustomed to do, the experience he hath of often being in such dangers, and having felt no harm, that doth rectify his affections. Experience is a special means to tame them; let a beast be brought to a mans hand that is fearful at the first, but by experience and daily using of it, so you tame the beast: so our affections are unruly things, like untamed beasts, but when experience hath discovered them, it is a good means to rectify them: therefore it is profitable for us to call to mind things that are past: If we would but call to mind how such a thing we joyed in, and yet it staid not with us; our joy would not be so inordinate in other things: If we would remember how such a cross we survived, our grief would not be so inordinate in future events.