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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.
If riches come in by your callings, that is, the wages, not the end of our callings; for that looks only to God, we must not make gain the end of our callings: There are many that make gain their godliness, and the end of their callings, Some preach only for gain, others use other callings only for gain, but if any man will make gain the end of his calling, though he may conceal and hide his end from men, yet let him be sure, that he shall answer God, the searcher of the heart for it. On the other side, if a man by diligence in his calling have riches following ⟨p. 36⟩him, he may take them as a blessing of God bestowed on him, and as a reward for his calling. The diligent hand maketh rich. God will so reward it, not that we must eye riches, and make them our end. God makes a man rich, and man makes himself rich. God makes us rich by being diligent in our callings, and using them to h•s glory and mans good; he doth cast riches on us: man makes himself rich, when he makes riches the end of his calling, and doth not expect them as a reward that comes from God. I express it by Jacob; Jacob, he s•rved Laban faithfully, and God blessed him, so that he did grow rich, he went not out of his compass and Sphere, he took the wages that was given, and because that Gods end was to make him rich, God enriched him by his wages, as a reward of his service. The more diligent a man is in his calling, the more sincere & upright, the more doth God bless him, and increase his riches; God makes men rich, when he gives them riches without sorrows and troubles, when as they come in with ease, and without expectation and disquiet. Man makes himself rich, when as there is great trouble in getting, keeping, & enjoying them, when as he useth his calling to get riches, or when as he useth unlawful means. The method God useth to enrich men is this; He first bids them Seek the kingdom of God, and the righteousness thereof, and then all these things shall be administered unto them as wages: We must look to our duty, and let God alone to provide, and pay us our wages.
If riches come in by your callings, that is, the wages, not th'end of our callings; for that lookes onely to God, we must not make gaine th'end of our callings: There are many that make gaine their godlinesse, and th'end of their callings, Some preach only for gaine, others use other callings onely for gaine, but if any man will makegaine th'end of his calling, though he may conceale and hide his end from men, yet let him bee sure, that hee shall answere God, the searcher of the heart for it. On the other side, if a man by diligence in his calling have riches following