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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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Fourthly, in the end when we think it should be our ⟨p. 18⟩friend, it will be our greatest enemy: for instead of life, it will give us death; it will witness against us, that we are worthy of death, because we have neglected the means of grace, neglected to hear, to pray, and to confer; and what was the cause of this remissness but sin, and yet it accuseth us of what it self was the cause. Now what greater enemy can a man possibly have than he that shall provoke him to a wicked fact, and then after accuse him for it: therefore let this move men to mortify their lusts.
Fourthly, in the end when we thinke it should be our ⟨p. 18⟩friend, it will be our greatest enemy: for instead of life, it will give us death; it will witnesse against us, that we are worthy of death, because wee have neglected the meanes of grace, neglected to heare, to pray, and to conferre; and what was the cause of this remisnesse but sinne, and yet it accuseth us of what it selfe was the cause. Now what greater enemy can a man possibly have than he that shall provoke him to a wicked fact, and then after accuse him for it: therefore let this move men to mortifie their lusts.
The fifth Motive to move all men to hate sin, is, Because it makes us Rebels against God; and who 1would be a Rebel, and Traitor against God and Christ, who was the cause of his being? The Apostle saith, Being servants unto sin, we become servants 2of unrighteousness, Rom. 6. 19. that is, if we suffer sin to reign in us, then we become servants of unrighteousness, rebels unto God, and enemies unto Christ, who love righteousness: now he that is a friend unto God, loves that which God loves, and hates that which God hates; but he that is not, loves the contrary, for unrighteousness is contrary to God, and he that loves it, is a rebel against God: Every lust hath the seed of rebellion in it, and as it increaseth, so rebellion increaseth: therefore let this move men to mortify sin.