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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 then a man is a covetous man, when 1as he hath desires arising in him, which are contrary on the former rules, and he resists them not, or else resists them so weakly and feebly, that he gets no ground of them; He sees no reason why he should resist them, and therefore gives way unto them. A man is not a covetous man, nor an ambitious man which hath covetous and ambitious thoughts, for these the holiest men have, but he that hath such thoughts, and strives not at all against them, or else strives but weakly, he is a covetous and ambitious man. A godly man may have these thoughts and desires, but he strives strongly against them, gets ground of them, and gives them a deaths wound, but the covetous man he yields unto them, the godly man he gets the victory over them.
I answer, that then a man is a covetous man, when 1as he hath desires arising in him, which are contrary on the former rules, and hee resists them not, or else resists them so weakely and feebly, that hee gets no ground of them; Hee sees no reason why he should resist them, and therefore gives way unto them. A man is not a covetous man, nor an ambitious man which hath covetous and ambitious thoughts, for these the holiest men have, but hee that hath such thoughts, and strives not at all against them, or else strives but weakely, he is a covetous and ambitious man. A godly man may have these thoughts and desires, but hee strives strongly against them, gets ground of them, and gives them a deathes wound, but the covetous man hee yeelds unto them, the godly man he gets the victory over them.
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Now this covetousness is evil in it self; for first of all, it is Idolatry and spiritual Adultery, and then it is an evil and bitter root, having many stalks on it; he that doth do any thing to hold correspondency with it, he that doth belong unto it, to him it is the root of all evil,