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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.
First, because God makes an insutablenesse and disproportion, betwixt the man and the blessing, as between Judas and his Apostleship: a man may have tables well furnished, riches in abundance, a wife fit for him, and yet have no comfort in them, because God puts a secret disproportion betwixt him and them.
First, because God makes an insutablenesse and disproportion, betwixt the man and the blessing, as betweene Iudas and his Apostleship: a man may have tables well furnished, riches in aboundance, a wife fit for him, and yet have no comfort in them, because God puts a secret disproportion betwixt him and them.
Secondly, though there be a concurrence of 1things, yet God may hinder the effect, sometimes for good, and sometimes for evil, as Elishas servant was ready in the nick, when the Shunamite came to beg her possessions and lands of the King, 2. Kings 8. 5. 6. He was then telling the King, how Elisha had restored her son to life: So Abraham when he was ⟨p. 22⟩to offer up his son Isaac, in the instant God sent the ram to be tied in the bush: So Saul when he had purposed to kill David, God called him away to 2fight with the Philistines, and as God hinders the effect for good, so he doth for evil.
Secondly, though there bee a concurrence of 1things, yet God may hinder the effect, sometimes for good, and sometimes for evill, as Elishas servant was readie in the nicke, when the Shunamite came to begge her possessions and lands of the King,