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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, it is a sinful desire, because it is a lust, as lusting after pleasure, is called Voluptuousness; It is also inordinate, the principle being amiss, and likewise the object. The principle is amiss, when we over-value riches, set a greater beauty on them then they have, and seeing them with a wrong eye, we lust after them, by reason that we over-value them, and thus to over-value them, is to lust after them, and to think that they can make us happy, is ⟨p. 26⟩Idolatry. The object of it is as bad as the principle, when as the end is either to raise us to a higher condition, or to fare deliciously every day, or else to spend them on some Lust, as well as to keep them.
First, it is a sinnefull desire, because it is a lust, as lusting after pleasure, is called Voluptuousnesse; It is also inordinate, the principle being amisse, and likewise the object. The principle is amisse, when we over-value riches, set a greater beauty on them then they have, and seeing them with a wrong eye, wee lust after them, by reason that wee over-value them, and thus to over-value them, is to lust after them, and to thinke that they can make us happie, is ⟨p. 26⟩Idolatry. The object of it is as bad as the principle, when as th'end is either to raise us to a higher condition, or to fare deliciously every day, or else to spend them on some Lust, as well as to keepe them.
Secondly, it is of keeping, or getting money, getting it inordinately, seeking it by wrong means, or 1of keeping it, First in not bestowing of it on our selves as we ought, there is Tenacity of this sort amongst men. Eecle. 5. 15 There is a sore evil under the Sun, namely, Riches kept by the owners thereof, to their hurt, when as it is comely for a man to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labours that he hath taken under the Sun, all the days of his life which God giveth him, for this is his portion, and thus to rejoice in his labour, is the gift of God.