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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.
The first motive I take out of 1 Tim. 6. 10. The 1Apostle speaking of covetousness, calls it; the root of all evil, &c. and what may be said of this, may be said of any other sin very truly; this is one motive: ⟨p. 241⟩inordinate affections promise profit and contentment, and yet will pierce you through with many sorrows, that is, it taketh away the health 2and tranquillity of the soul; even as the worm doth eat the same tree, that doth breed it. And look, as the inward heat of an ague is worse than the outward heat; so these inward ulcers of the soul and affections do trouble us, and pierce us more than any outward grievance, whatsoever, that can assault the body: let a man have houses in the City, goodly gardens, orchards, lands and all contentments on every side; yet, his inordinate affections do not suffer him to enjoy any one of these, nay, not to enjoy himself, he cannot converse, talk or meditate with himself, it makes a man to be wearisome to himself, it hinders a man altogether from doing that which is good: 3one disease of the body is enough to take away all comforts outwardly, that a man hath; and one inordinate affection of the soul takes away all pleasure and contentment within; let a man be sick, neither rich clothes, nor a fair chamber, can comfort him; so let a man have but one inordinate passion, all other things are nothing to him; he takes no pleasure in them.
The first motive I take out of 1 Tim. 6. 10. The 1Apostle speaking of covetousnesse, cals it; the roote of all evill, &c. and what may be said of this, may be said of any other sinne very truely; this is one motive: ⟨p. 241⟩inordinate affections promise profit and contentment, and yet will pierce you through with many sorrowes, that is, it taketh away the health