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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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First, those that think that all sins have the like 1proportion of labour in mortifying; they think that a man may take no more pains for the mortifying of 2one sin, than another; but these men are deceived, for all sins are not alike in a man, but some are more, some are less violent; and accordingly, Mortification must be answerable unto the sin. It is with Mortification 3in this case, as it is with physic in diseases; all diseases require not the same physic, for some diseases must be purged with bitter pills, others not with the like sharpness: again, some physic is for weakening, others for restoring the strength: even so there are some sins, like that devil which our Saviour speaks of, that cannot be cast out but by fasting and prayer: that is, they cannot be mortified without much ⟨p. 27⟩pains; for if it be a heart-sin, that is, a sin that is deer unto thee, a beloved bosom sin, (as all men are marvellous subject to love some sin above another) there must be, for the Mortification of this, a greater labour taken then for a less corruption: these are called in Scripture, the right eye, and the right hand; and as men are very loth to part with these members of the body, even so are they loth to part with their beloved sins which are deer unto them.
First, thosethat thinke that all sinnes have the like 1proportion of labour in mortifying; they thinke that a man may take no more paynes for the mortifying of 2one sinne, than another; but these men are deceived, for all sinnes are not alike in a man, but some are more, some are lesse violent; and accordingly, Mortification must be answerable unto the sinne. It is with Mortification 3in this case, as it is with physicke in diseases; all diseases require not the same physicke, for some diseases must be purged with bitter pills, others not with the like sharpnesse: againe, some physicke is for weakning, others for restoring the strength: even so there are some sinnes, like that devill which our Saviour speakes of, that cannot be cast out but by fasting and prayer: that is, they cannot be mortified without much