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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.
I answer, that he may desire food and raiment, 1he may desire that which is necessary for nature, without which he cannot live and subsist; As a man may desire a ship to pass over the Sea from one Country to another, because he cannot pass over without it; so a man may desire food and raiment in the Sea of this life, because without it we cannot finish that course which God hath prescribed unto us.
I answere, that he may desire foode and rayment, 1hee may desire that which is necessary for nature, without which he cannot live and subsist; As a man may desire a ship to passe over the Sea from one Country to another, because hee cannot passe over without it; so a man may desire foode and rayment in the Sea of this life, because without it wee cannot finish that course which God hath prescribed unto us.
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Now there is a three-fold necessity.
First, there is a necessity of expedience, as if a 1man hath a journey to go, Tis true he may go on foot, yet he may desire an horse to ride, because it will be more expedient for him; so you may desire with a remiss desire, so much as is expedient for your vocation and calling.
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