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Three sermons upon the sacrament of the Lords Supper. By the late faithful and…Three sermons vpon the sacrament of the Lords Supper. By the late faithfull and…
Three sermons upon the sacrament of the Lords Supper. By the late faithful and worthy minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, master of Emanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolns InnThree sermons vpon the sacrament of the Lords Supper. By the late faithfull and vvorthy minister of Iesus Christ, 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 Thomas Cotes for Michael Sparke, 1631
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.
You will say,1 what is that?
- 1Quest.
That is,1 to bring on these truths which thy heart assents unto, to bring them with that evidence, and fullness of demonstration, that thou shalt yield unto them, and practise them according to thy knowledge. Beloved, there is much knowledge among us, but who practiseth according to his knowledge?o We know God, but we glorify him not as God; and the reason is, because there hath not gone a power with that knowledge, to make it lively and effectual, to pass through all the faculties of the soul, and to overrule them; for if there were such knowledge, it would always draw affection and practise with it. So likewise consider, whether there hath gone a power from him to mortify thy lusts?p Whosoever is in Christ hath crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts, not to lay them asleep ⟨p. 41⟩only, but to mortify and subdue them. See likewise whether there hath a power gone out from Christ, to help thee to overcome the world,q The lusts of thine eyes, the lusts of the flesh, and the pride of life; for whosoever is in Christ overcomes the world, and all that is in the world. The world hath many things to work upon us, and to resist and oppose us: It hath persecutions, it hath disgraces, it hath slanders and reproaches, which it casts upon holy men, and upon the holy ways of God. And the men that are actors in this, are the devils factors, though they think not so, as the Apostle James expresseth it;