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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.
But will not wealth and friends profit us?1
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No not at all, they are vanity, they are empty in 1themselves, they cannot do it, they are in themselves but vanity; having the creature, you have but the husk without the grain, the shell without the kernel, the creature is but empty of it self, except God put into it a fitness to comfort you, all is vanity and nothing worth, and this vanity is nothing but emptiness. And this serves to correct the thoughts of men, who think, that if they had such an estate, and all their debts paid, If they had such and such friends, that then all would be well with them, and who is it that thinks not thus? But let those that entertain such thoughts, consider the vanity of the creature; All our Sins proceed from the over-valuing of the creature, for Sin is nothing but an aversion of the Soul from the immutable God to the creature. Labour then to conceive of the creature aright, that it is vain; this will keep you aright, and hinder you from going from God, and cleaving to the creature.
No not at all, they are vanity, they are empty in 1themselves, they cannot doe it, they are in themselves but vanity; having the creature, you have but the huske without the graine, the shell without the kernell, the creature is but empty of it selfe, except God put into it a fitnesse to comfort you, all is vanity and nothing worth, and this vanity is nothing but emptinesse. And this serves to correct the thoughts of men, who thinke, that if they had such an estate, and all their debts payd, If they had such and such friends, that then all would be well with them, and who is it that thinks not thus? But let those that entertaine such thoughts, consider the vanity of the creature; All our Sinnes proceede from the over-valuing of the creature, for Sinne is nothing but an aversion of the Soule from the immutable God to the creature. Labour then to conceiue of the creature aright, that it is vaine; this will keepe you aright, and hinder you from going from God, and cleaving to the creature.