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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
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First, In the Treatise of Mortification.
DOCTRINE I. The height of glory, which we expect by Christ, should cause every man to mortify sin. page 3 DOCT. II. The frame of our hearts ought to suit with those conditions that we receive by our union with Christ. p. 4 Explication. Mortification is a turning of the heart from sin to grace, ibid. Mortification called a turning of the heart, because the heart by nature is backward and averse from God, pag. 5 Sin seemingly mortified; 1. When the occasion is removed. p 7 2. When it is not violent and raging, but quiet. ibid. 3. When it is but removed from one sin to another. ibid. 4. When the Conscience is affrighted with the judgements ⟨image 3⟩of God. p. 8 5. When the strength of nature is spent, ibid. 6. Being restrained from sin by good education, p. 9 USE I. To examine by these rules sins Mortification, ibid. Mortified lusts known, 1. By a deep humiliation of the soul, p. 10 2. By the generality of it, ibid. 3. By the measure of grace, answering the measure of corruption, p. 11 4. By the continuance of them, p. 12 Motives to Mortification: 1. There is no pleasure in sin, p. 13 Pleasure in sin is no true solid pleasure, but a sick pleasure, p. 14. 2. The satisfying of lust is an endless work, ibid. 3. The great danger of sin, p. 15 4. The deceit of sin, p. 16 Sin deceives four ways: 1. By blinding the understanding, ibid. 2. By making large promises, p. 17 3. By promising departure at our pleasure, ibid. 4. By making a show of friendship, ibid. 5. The rebellion it occasions in us against God, p. 18 6. The slavery it brings us unto Satan, ibid. USE II. To instruct us that in every regenerate man there is a freewill to do good, p. 19 The power of a Regenerate man consists 1. In performing any duty God commands, according to ⟨image 3⟩the proportion of grace he hath received, p. 20 2. In resisting any temptation according to the same measure of grace, p. 21 OBJECT. In the Regenerate, the flesh lusteth against the spirit, &c. ibid. ANSW. Corruption reigns not, though it may take possession in the heart of a Regenerate man; it exceeds not the measure of grace, ibid: USE III. To exhort us to abstain from the sin of the heart, as well as sin in the outward actions, p. 22 OBJECT. Men shall be judged by their works, not by the thoughts of their hearts, ibid. ANSW. God will judge the thoughts of the heart, as the cause;