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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.
To this I answer; It is true, that men shall be 1judged by their works, because actions declare either that good that is in the heart, or the evil that is in the heart; so that he will judge the heart first as the cause, and then the actions as the effects. Rom. 8. 27. it is said, He that searcheth the heart, knoweth the mind of the spirit: so it is as true, that he knows the mind of the flesh; that is, the actions of the unregenerate part. Now as the sap is greater in the root than in the branches, so the greater sin is in the heart, and therefore it shall receive greater punishment. Therefore if the root be not purged, notwithstanding thou abstain from the outward actions, thou hast not as yet mortified sin, because thy heart is impure; and seeing God will judge us by our hearts, if we have any care of our salvation, let us labour to cut off the buds of sin that spring from the heart.
To this I answer; It is true, that men shall bee 1judged by their workes, because actions declare either that good that is in the heart, or the evill that is in the heart; so that he will judge the heart first as the cause, and then the actions as the effects. Rom. 8. 27. it is said, He that searcheth the heart, knoweth the mind of the spirit: so it is as true, that he knowes the minde of the flesh; that is, the actions of the unregenerate part. Now as the sap is greater in the root than in the branches, so the greater sinne is in the heart, and therefore it shall receive greater punishment. Therefore if the root bee not purged, notwithstanding thou abstaine from the outward actions, thou hast not as yet mortified sinne, because thy heart is impure; and seeing God will judge us by our hearts, if we have any care of our salvation, let us labour to cut off the buds of sinne that spring from the heart.
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