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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.
Thirdly, sin may seem to be mortified when it is but removed from one sin unto another, when it 1is removed from a less to a greater, or from a greater to a less. As for example, A man may not be so covetous as he was, and think with himself that this his sin is mortified, when as indeed it is not mortified, but only removed unto another; for now it ⟨p. 8⟩may be he is grown ambitious, and seeks after honour, and therefore it stands not now with his reputation and credit to be covetous: hereupon he may grow bountiful, and nevertheless his sin of covetousness be unmortified: And so for drunkenness, and such as desire pleasure, their minds and delights may be changed, and the sin of the soul be not yet mortified. Sin is to the soul as diseases are to the body: now we know, that diseases of the body usually remove from one place to another, or at the least grow from a less to a greater: so it is with sin in the soul, it will remove from one faculty to another.
Thirdly, sinne may seeme to bee mortified when it is but removed from one sinne unto another, when it 1is removed from a lesse to a greater, or from a greater to a lesse. As for example, A man may not be so covetous as hee was, and thinke with himselfe that this his sinne is mortified, when as indeed it is not mortified, but onely removed unto another; for now it ⟨p. 8⟩may be hee is growne ambitious, and seekes after honour, and therefore it stands not now with his reputation and credit to bee covetous: hereupon hee may grow bountifull, and neverthelesse his sinne of covetousnesse be unmortified: And so for drunkennesse, and such as desire pleasure, their mindes and delights may be changed, and the sinne of the soule be not yet mortified. Sinne is to the soule as diseases are to the body: now we know, that diseases of the body usually remove from one place to another, or at the least grow from a lesse to a greater: so it is with sinne in the soule, it will remove from one faculty to another.
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