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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 this I answer, that if you take them as blessings, you may rejoice in them as the instruments 1by which God doth you good; blessings are relative words, they have reference unto God, if you consider them without reference to him, they cease to be blessings; Therefore if you consider them merely as blessings, you may rejoice in them. Now ye receive them as blessings.
To this I answere, that if you take them as blessings, you may rejoyce in them as the instruments 1by which God doth you good; blessings are relative words, they have reference unto God, if you consider them without reference to him, they cease to bee blessings; Therefore if you consider them meerely as blessings, you may rejoyce in them. Now yee receive them as blessings.
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First, if you depend upon God for the disposing, continuing, and want of them, if you think you shall 1enjoy them no longer then God will; If you think thus with your selves, we have wives, children, friends, and riches, 'tis true we have them, but yet ⟨p. 15⟩they shall not continue with us an hour or minute longer; then God will: If you think so in good earnest, then ye rejoice in them as blessings. A man that is relieved when he is in danger, looks more to the will, then to the hand of him that helps him; We look more to the good will of our friends, then to their gifts: So we should look more on Gods will and pleasure, than to the benefit she bestows upon us; The consideration of these things as blessings, must raise up your thoughts to heavenly things, to consider that whatsoever is done on earth, is first acted in heaven: The Sun is first eclipsed there, and then here; So that your estates are first eclipsed there before that they are here; look therefore on God, and on these as merely depending on Gods will, and then you enjoy them only as blessings.