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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.
To press this further, consider these four things.
To presse this further, consider these foure things.
First, if you go another way to work, all you see and seek comfort in the creature shall be labour ⟨p. 10⟩lost, for it is not in the power of the creature to yield you any comfort, If you busy your selves with seeking of comfort from it, you will walk in a vain shadow, Psal. 39. 6. Surely every man walketh in a vain shadow, Surely they are disquieted in vain, He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them; If we look for comfort from riches, we look it but from a shadow, all our labour is in vain.
First, if you goe another way to worke, all you see and seeke comfort in the creature shall be labour ⟨p. 10⟩lost, for it is not in the power of the creature to yeeld you any comfort, If you busie your selves with seeking of comfort from it, you will walke in a vaine shadow, Psal. 39. 6. Surely every man walketh in a vaine shadow, Surely they are disquieted in vaine, Hee heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them; If wee looke for comfort from riches, wee looke it but from a shadow, all our labour is in vaine.
There is a shadow of the Almighty wherein some men walk, where they shall be sure to find this comfort, others there are that walk in the shadow of the creatures in the vanity of their minds, seeking comfort from it: Those who thus walk shall be deceived. A shadow though it seem to be something, yet it is nothing, ye may seem to have the lineaments of a man, or some other creature, yet it is nothing: So these outward things may seem to have something in them, but yet indeed they have nothing, those that seek for comfort in them commit two evils,