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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.
First, if thou wouldest have the Spirit, then thou 1must know the Spirit; that is, so to know him as to give him the glory of the work of every grace; for how shall we give the Spirit the glory of every grace if we know not the Spirit? And therefore our Saviour makes the want of the knowledge of the Spirit the reason that men do not receive the Spirit; Jeh. 14. 17. I will send unto you the Comforter, whom the world cannot receive, because they know him not: that is, the world knoweth not the preciousness of the Spirit, therefore they lightly esteem of him; but you know him, and the excellency of him, therefore you highly esteem of him: The first means then to have the Spirit, is, Labour to know the Spirit, that you may give him the glory of every grace.
First, if thou wouldest have the Spirit, then thou 1must know the Spirit; that is, so to know him as to give him the glory of the worke of every grace; for how shall wee give the Spirit the glory of every grace if wee know not the Spirit? And therefore our Saviour makes the want of the knowledge of the Spirit the reason that men doe not receive the Spirit; Ieh. 14. 17. I will send unto you the Comforter, whom the world cannot receive, because they know him not: that is, the world knoweth not the preciousnesse of the Spirit, therefore they lightly esteeme of him; but you know him, and the excellency of him, therefore you highly esteeme of him: The first meanes then to have the Spirit, is, Labour to know the Spirit, that you may give him the glory of every grace.
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Secondly, if thou wouldest have the Spirit, then ⟨p. 34⟩1take heed that thou neither resist the Spirit, nor grieve, nor quench it.