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id: A46819
author: Jenner, Thomas, fl. 1631-1656, attributed name.
date: 1655
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 922
sentence: 64
flesch: 82
cache: cache/A46819.xml
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title:
  The ages of sin, or Sinnes birth & groweth With the stepps, and degrees of sin, from thought to finall impenitencie.

summary:
  The ages of sin, or Sinnes birth & groweth With the stepps, and degrees of sin, from thought to finall impenitencie. The ages of sin, or Sinnes birth & groweth With the stepps, and degrees of sin, from thought to finall impenitencie.


id: B01830
author: Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
title: A caution to stir up to watch against sin. By J. Bunyan.
date: 1684
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2021
sentence: 99
flesch: 79
cache: cache/B01830.xml
txt: txt/B01830.txt
summary:
  Though SIN at first its rage dissemble may , 'T will soon upon thee as a Lyon Prey ; 'T will roar , 't will rend , 't will tear , 't will kill out-right , Its living Death will gnaw thee day and night : 'T will hide its sting , 't will change its Native hue , Vile 't will not , but a Beauty seem to you .


id: A40446
author: Freeman, George, Sir.
date: 1663
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3940
sentence: 70
flesch: 35
cache: cache/A40446.xml
txt: txt/A40446.txt
title:
  A dehortation from all sinne, but particularly the sinne of drinking. By George Freman sonne to Sr Raphe Freman master of requests

summary:
  These are the entrances of Hell into thy soul , upon the withdrawings of God and spirituall consolations ; without which the soul languisheth , as the body fainteth upon a decay of the animall , or vitall spirits : this must thou look for after the continuance in any known , and presumptuous sin , but if thou find it not , thy condition is dangerous , for the obduration , or hardening of the heart is the threshold of Hell : look quickly then and seriously into thy soul ; labour to get a sight of thy sins in the Book of Conscience , whiles they may be blotted out ; pray earnestly to God for a true sense of them , ( for prayer is the Key of Heaven ; ) consider often of Death , Judgement , Heaven , and Hell ; think how odious the sin of ingratitude is between man and man , and that unthankfulness for the Blood of Christ is the highest of that kinde : think of the shortness of mans life , and the great business is to be done in that little life : that thy short life is posting to an end ; O the folly , and madness of sin ! it is a continuall acting against reason , a treasuring up of wrath with the God of all power , a providing for the society of Devils , and damned souls , who will be cursing their Maker , and one another to all eternity ; 't is that which only is dishonourable to man , a disturbance to Commonwealths ; it is the satisfaction of Devils ( if they could have any , ) the trouble of Angels , and blessed souls , nay the grieving of the holy Ghost , and the continuall murthering of the Son of God. Now although many men that drink not , may , and do often these things , and far worse ; yet drink betrays them more easily to vanities , and idle pastimes : therefore be carefull to avoid this degree of drinking , and thou wilt then be secure from the scandalous sin of visible drunkenness , which is the beastly consummation of the former : I do not speak this to perswade men from society , and chearfulness ; as if Religion , and mirth were things inconsistent ; since I know that true mirth is found no where else : but we do for the most part mistake mirth the most of any thing : accounting that it consists in laughter only ; whereas properly a man may be most truly merry when he laugheth least : for none laugh more than Ideots , and men of weak understanding , and sensualists ; while men advanc'd in knowledge , and quieted in mind , by serious and due reflections on themselves , do it but seldome : but none will deny but the latter sort , have the greater cause for mirth , and consequently must needs be more truly merry ; for true mirth is a complacency of the mind , arising from the apprehension of our personall happiness ; yet while we are in the body , laughter is naturall , and if it be kept within its bounds , and plac't upon right subjects , is both allowable , and conducing to health ; but is not tyed to the Glass , or Bowl : This caution against drinking , concerns those chiefly whose bodies require strong drinks in some small proportion , ( for none do much ) since those who are of another temperament , will abstain without any mans counsell , or any vertue of their own , which is only seen where there are propensities to the contrary ; though some men of this sort may contract habits to themselves , contrary to the first requisites of nature .


id: A19519
author: Andrewes, John, fl. 1615.
date: 1624
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4205
sentence: 178
flesch: 76
cache: cache/A19519.xml
txt: txt/A19519.txt
title:
  A soueraigne salue to cure a sicke soule infected with the poyson of sinne. Wherein is contained, 1 The strength and force of the poyson of sinne. 2 How mans soule became poysoned? 3 How the soule of man poysoned by sinne may be cured, and restored. These parts are all authenticall, and comprised in a most short and compendious method, briefly to be read, that they may be effectually practised. Newly published by I.A. minister and preacher of Gods Word.

summary:
  Thus wee may see , that the very subiect and seat of sinne is the heart and soule of man , that most glorious and pretious part , which God made like to himselfe , and for the which the Sonne of God was crucified . And as sinne delights to sit and captiue both the heart and soule of man , so the longer it raignes there the worse it is ; for as in good things the elder the better ; so in the euill of sinne , the elder the worse , and the more they will grow in number .


id: A67600
author: H. W. (Henry Waring)
date: 1695
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4380
sentence: 150
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A67600.xml
txt: txt/A67600.txt
title:
  The court convert: or, A sincere sorrow for sin, faithfully travers'd expressing the dignity of a true penitent. Drawn in little by one, whose manifold misfortunes abroad, have render'd him necessitated, to seek for shelter here; by dedicating himself and this small poem. By H.A. gent.

summary:
  Unthinking Souls , that perish with Delight , Which all the Threats of Heav'n cannot affright : F●r sure those Pains , which do on Sin attend , ●ins which begin , but never must have end ; ●●e immaterial Fire that burneth still , ●●t to their great Misfortune cannot kill ; ●he Devil's Dungeon , and all sorts of Pain , ●hich Human Fortitude cannot sustain , ●ight ( one wou'd think ) ●●e crouded Way of Vice cou'd never show 〈◊〉 Pleasure , which true Vertue doth bestow ; ●●●m Innocence a native Joy accrues , 〈◊〉 wracking Sorrow always Guilt pursues .


id: A19458
author: Andrewes, John, fl. 1615.
date: 1631
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5898
sentence: 567
flesch: 93
cache: cache/A19458.xml
txt: txt/A19458.txt
title:
  Andrewes caueat to win sinners A true and perfect way to win carelesse sinners (if there be but the least sparke of grace in them) vnto speedy repentance, that in the end they may obtaine eternall life. Directed vnto all the elect children of God, which truly repent. Newly published by Iohn Andrewes preacher of Gods Word. Being first seene and allowed.

summary:
  Heare , oh therefore , heare all you that walke after the lusts of your owne hearts , and depart from Bethel x the house of God , to starue your soules in Bethauen the den of y iniquity : It is sinne , oh ! Oh! if you did féele the smart of sinne but prick in your wounded conscience , it were b forcible enough to draw streames of teares out of the dryest eye that euer was in the head of man ; and to excite a multitude of sorrowfull groanes out of the hardest heart that euer God made :


id: A39116
author: Eyre, Robert, 1656 or 7-1722.
date: 1700
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6353
sentence: 145
flesch: 49
cache: cache/A39116.xml
txt: txt/A39116.txt
title:
  The sinner a traitor to his king and country in a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral-Church of Winchester, at the assizes held there, July 24, 1700 / by Robert Eyre ...

summary:
  But God be thanked , we are now left without any manner of Excuse of this kind ; we have now no cloak for our Sin upon either of these Accounts : and yet , to our shame , it may be observ'd , that Irreligion and Profaneness , and a profess'd Contempt of Christianity and its Divine Author , was perhaps never so openly countenanc'd , never so fashionably abetted in any one Baptized Nation under Heaven , as it seems to be with us at this very Day : nor was the Seat of the Scornful ever more highly advanced in any one Age of the Church , from the very time that the Mystery of Iniquity first began to work in it . Now were such Monsters of Impiety as these as rare as Monsters use to be ; were they either few in number , or inconsiderable for their Quality and Station in the World ; we might then hope to have their Sin confined to their own doors only , and that there would be still righteous Persons enough found amongst us to atone the heavy Wrath of God , and to incline his Long-suffering and Forbearance towards us .


id: A43731
author: Hide, Edmund.
date: 1655
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7105
sentence: 97
flesch: 30
cache: cache/A43731.xml
txt: txt/A43731.txt
title:
  The naked mans peace is obedience in a word to the magistrates, priests and people. To which is annexed the will of dead living, and living dead man, now called Nicholas Keate, with a word in generall to all sorts. Written by me Edmund Hide.

summary:
  Now to you my Brethren that are thus made by God , and are become partakers of the godly nature , do I direct this copy of my own hand writing , and sure it is , that my heart and hand is guided by a power above what the world doth call meum & tuum , otherwise I should say , my house , my lands , my goods , which are proper unto me by the Laws of men , and I should be like the world , having a wife and relations ; but now I am as if I had none , and use them as I do the world , which is as if I used it not ; the Lord is now come to prove you , whether you be dead unto the world , with its wayes and fashions , traditions and customes , for doubtless I am the house of God where judgment is begun , and although I have had many tribulations , afflictions , and fierce trials , yet I expect many more before I enter into the Lords rest ; I dare not judg any man for keeping a competent maintenance , considering the worlds cruelty ; but an Heir of heaven , that is a chosen out of the world , dareth not claim the priviledg of mans Law , to withhold any thing that should relieve his brothers necessity ; I write not this unto you to shame you , or boastingly , as if I , as a man were better or freer then other men , because I give so liberally , but I tell you , as I told you before , the Lord is the giver and taker , it is not my will nor goods , nor my gift as I am a man , neither ought any to receive it as man willing his own will , but when the will of God is done in man , and mans will is no more , then the creature is new , and his old covetous self-seeking heart being done away , he will receive nothing but for his necessities , and that he ought freely to have given him ; and as the Lord hath freely given me a new heart , so let it be freely manifested , that the Sower and the Reaper may rejoyce together , and how can it be otherwayes , God being in us of a truth ; but you my friends that have made your vaunts , and brags , and boasted of your freedome in and to God , and that if he would require and call for your lives and estates , you would be free to sacrifice whatsoever he would call for : Consider , hath the Lord spared yours and you from the hardship that others are put upon , if I speak after the manner of men , it is my own condition ; terrible things , so as to flesh and blood are required and imposed upon me by the Lord , he hath snatched my life and livelihood from me , and stripped me stark naked , not suffering one friend to succour me for the present , but hath exposed my naked body to the devouring teeth of wilde savage beasts in a barren wildernesse ; neverthelesse , the Spirit of the Lord doth compel me to part with all , and obey , as aforesaid . Therefore a word to all ye people that are led by your Priests , as may be witnessed by your following them , there is pride in the Priest , and also in the people , covetousness in the Priest , so in the people , envy in the Priest , so in the people , the Priest his communion is propriety , so is the peoples , the Priest hath a clamorous tongue , so have the people , the Priest denieth the coming of Christ to be the Resurrection of God in man , so do the people , the Priest denieth a true Judgment day of God to be come upon the Man of Sin and unrighteousness , and that Christ will not bring us to the perfect life of holinesse here , and so do the people , the Priests have not laid down their lives for Christ , neither have the people ; for if the Magistrates , Priests , and Lawyers had no greater rewards of men for following the world and its wayes , then they should have for following Christ and his wayes , it 's possible we should have neither Magistrates , Priests , nor Lawyers , to supply the places they now stand in ; therefore ,


id: A67769
author: Younge, Richard.
title: The seduced soul reduced and rescued from the subtilty and slavery of Satan ... by R. Junius ...
date: 1660
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6289
sentence: 257
flesch: 76
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txt: txt/A67769.txt
summary:
  Whence it is , that St. Cyprian useth these words : It is as much lost labour ( saith he ) to preach unto men the things of God , before they are humbled with the sight of their wants , as to offer light to a blinde man , to speak to a deaf man , or to labour to make a brute beast wise . Yea , the most of men amongst us so delude themselves with mistakes , and false surmises , against Religion , and the religious , that piety and goodnesse is so despised ; loosenesse and prophanesse so set by , and defended , by some ignorantly , by others maliciously : and this also by reason of long custome runs so deep and strong , that wee can never look to have it mended , untill Christ comes in the clouds .


id: A58817
author: Scott, John, 1639-1695.
date: 1686
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7467
sentence: 243
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A58817.xml
txt: txt/A58817.txt
title:
  A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and citizens of London at the church of St. Mary le Bow, September the second, 1686 : being the anniversary fast for the dreadful fire in the year 1666 / by John Scott ...

summary:
  So that though those Evils which God inflicts upon us , are not always intended for Punishments of our Sin , but sometimes for Preservatives against it : yet in this case as well as the other , 't is Sin that is the cause of it ; 't is this that makes the evil necessary , and obliges God in mercy to inflict it upon us . But now , while the Judgments of God are upon men , they feel the dire effects of their Sin ; and therefore if notwithstanding this , they still persist in it , they sin against their Sense , as well as their Reason : which is , in effect , a plain defiance of God , and a daring him to do his worst with us .


id: A55741
author: Preston, John, b. 1598 or 9.
date: 1655
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8397
sentence: 402
flesch: 80
cache: cache/A55741.xml
txt: txt/A55741.txt
title:
  Christ's revvard of a Christians watch and ward, or, A sermon preached at the burial of Mr. John Berry of Thorverton in the countie of Devon, Aug. 23, 1654 by John Preston ...

summary:
  I will not accuse you for Pride and haughtiness , for trampling under foot the glory of England , the Preaching of the Gosple of Righteousness , nor for Blasphemy , Heresie , Apostasie , Oppression , self-love , and self-seeking , serving your selves upon Christ and upon his Gosple , for I have often heard you , upon your publick fasting-daies and daies of humiliation , to accuse and condemn your selves for these and the like City sins , onely I grieve to see these Rebels and Traitors against God to get a Reprieve , and I heartily wish that the day of their Execution were come : for , the putting of these to death will be your life . 1. So distracted thoughts , worldly mindedness , and earthly talke and business upon the Lords day , will cause all thy prayers and services to stink in the nostrils of God .


id: A61603
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
title: A sermon preached before the King, March 13, 1666/7 by Edward Stillingfleet ...
date: 1667
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9527
sentence: 226
flesch: 53
cache: cache/A61603.xml
txt: txt/A61603.txt
summary:
  Such who take the measure of mans perfections downwards , and the nearer they approach to beasts , the more they think themselves to act like men . But it is with this , as it is with the other arguments they use against Religion ; there is something within , which checks and controlls them in what they say : and that inward remorse of conscience , which such men sometimes feel in their evil actions ( when conscience is forced to recoil by the foulness of them ) doth effectually confute their own hypothesis ; and makes them not believe those actions to be necessary , for which they suffer so much in themselves because they knew they did them freely . Or is it as fatall for man to believe himself free when he is not so , as it is for him to act when his choice is determined ? but what series of causes is there that doth so necessarily impose upon the common sense of all mankind ? It seems very strange , that man should have so little sense of his own interest to be still necessitated to the worst of actions , and yet torment himself with the thoughts that he did them freely . Or is it only the freedome of action , and not of choice , that men have an experience of within themselves ? But surely , however men may subtilly dispute of the difference between these two , no man would ever believe himself to be free in what he does , unless he first thought himself to be so , in what he determines ?


id: A54037
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1649
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8946
sentence: 316
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A54037.xml
txt: txt/A54037.txt
title:
  The great and sole troubler of the times represented in a mapp of miserie, or, A glimpse of the heart of man which is the fountain from whence all misery flows, and the source into which it runs back. Drawn with a dark pencill, by a dark hand, in the midst of darkness.

summary:
  He speaks not concerning one mans heart , but generally concerning every mans , the heart of the sons of men , and couples evill and them altogether : Nor doth he speak restrainedly concerning some kind of evill , but indefinitely taking in all manner of evill ; there is nothing that is called evill , but is to be found in the heart of man . Wilt thou judg another for murder ? ( I speak not concerning judicial proceedings in Courts of Justice , where Magistrates as they are entrusted with a work beyond man , so they are enstated in a degree above man , I have said , ye are gods ; yet therein they fall short too , because they are but men at bottom , and so at best can judg but according to the sight of the eye , and hearing of the ear , which is opposed to righteous judgment , Isai. 11. 3 , 4. )


id: A02593
author: Hall, William, fl. 1624.
date: 1624
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10793
sentence: 401
flesch: 76
cache: cache/A02593.xml
txt: txt/A02593.txt
title:
  Mortalities meditation: or, A description of sinne VVith a definition and plaine setting forth of mans three chiefest and greatest enemies; to wit, the world, the flesh, and the Diuell. Written by William Hall.

summary:
  120 Our worldly pleasures little will auaile , Our fleshly lusts will nothing helpe at all ; Our hoorded wealth will naught at all preuaile , When we are summon'd by deaths fatall call : Who vncertaine yet certaine will meet vs , And with , Sir I arrest you , it will greet vs. 121 Like a bold Sergeant with his Mase in 's fist , Not to be danted , for death no man feares ; Who can resist him then , not he that list , The rich mans threats , nor yet the widdowes teares : Hee 's vnrelenting for he neuer respects , Rich , poore , faire , foule , hee all to graue deiects . 122 Hee 's so impartiall that he none will spare , Both young and old , yea all death will surprize ; For fatherlesse nor Orphants he doth care , Weepe whilst they will he nere regards their cryes : Death is the wages that is due for sinne , Which all our life time wee haue liued in . 123 Certaine death will come , we must expect it , The time and place God hath from vs conceal'd ; Is 't fit for vs therefore for to neglect it , Because our day of death is not reueal'd : Wee should thinke on it and premeditate , Before it come and our selues consolate .


id: A67750
author: Younge, Richard.
date: 1658
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10306
sentence: 388
flesch: 75
cache: cache/A67750.xml
txt: txt/A67750.txt
title:
  An experimental index of the heart in which (as in a looking-glass) both profane and civil men may see enough, to make them in love with religion, being a most happie and providential conference between two friends (after the ones heart was changed) the which may both provoke and incourage all sorts of sinners to read the same, that (in the least) love themselves : drawn up and published for the good of all / by R. Younge ... ; add this as a second part to those three fundamental principles of Christian religion, intituled, A short and sure way to grace and salvation.

summary:
  For ( being like Cain , Ishmael , Eliab , Michol , Pharaoh , and Festus , I thought their Religion Puritanisme , their conscience of sin , hypocrisie ; their profession , ●issimul●tion their prudence , policie ; their faith and confidence , presumption ; their zeal of God's glory , to be p●ide and ma●ice ; their obedience to God's laws , rebellion to P●iaces ; their execution of ju●ice , cruelty , &c. As if I would send challenges into Heaven , and make love to destruction ; and yet did applaud my self , and prefer my own condition before other men's : saying , I was no di●●embler ; yea , I hated the hypocrisie of Professors : I do not justifie my self , and despise others , like the Puritanes : I am not factious , schismatical , singular , censorious , &c.


id: A36192
author: Danforth, Samuel, 1626-1674.
date: 1674
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13040
sentence: 704
flesch: 78
cache: cache/A36192.xml
txt: txt/A36192.txt
title:
  The cry of Sodom enquired into; upon occasion of the arraignment and condemnation of Benjamin Goad, for his prodigious villany. Together with a solemn exhortation to tremble at Gods judgements, and to abandon youthful lusts. S.D.

summary:
  Open thy mouth w●●e , and I will fill it . I will see whether they have done altogether , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an fecerint consummationem , whether they have made a full end , whether they have finished their sin , and filled up the measure of their iniquity ; and if they have , I will proceed to execute V●ngeance upon them .


id: A43788
author: Hill, John, d. 1709.
date: 1680
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15213
sentence: 563
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A43788.xml
txt: txt/A43788.txt
title:
  The grand apostacy of the church of Rome, from her primitive purity and integrity with a vindication of the Church of England, in her separation from her, and the hazard of salvation in communion with her : discoursed in a sermon preached at St. Mary le Bow, London on Sunday the 28th of December, 1679 / by John Hill.

summary:
  4. In the Worship of Images ; for at first that Church admitted of no Image at all , either painted or carved ; no not the Image of Christ himself ( saith Erasmus ) to be set up in Churches : And when they began to be used , the Church of Rome But if we rightly consider the Purity of our own Church , and the Apostacy and Corruptions of the Church of Rome , you will finde an impossibility of Reconciliation : For ( rebus sic stantibus ) as the case is , that Church must put off it self , and cease to be what it is , ere it can begin to be once again what it was ; for Substance , Credit , Fame , Vertue , and Honour have at once forsaken her , and by long disuse have left her worse than naught .


id: A02352
author: Guild, William, 1586-1657.
date: 1625
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17041
sentence: 787
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A02352.xml
txt: txt/A02352.txt
title:
  Ignis fatuus. Or, The elf-fire of purgatorie Wherein Bellarmine is confuted by arguments both out of the Old and New Testament, and by his owne proofes out of Scriptures and Fathers. Also an annexe to this treatise of purgatorie, concerning the distinction of sinne in mortall and veniall. By M. William Guild, Minister at King-Edvvard.

summary:
  From whence it followes that nothing can bee done by man , either actiuely or passiuely in this life , nor after the same ; that can be reputed a condigne satisfaction to God for any one sinne whatsoeuer committed by vs ; the guilt and whole punishment whereof is perfectly abrogated by Christ : the first being imputed to him , and the second inflicted vpon him : that so all who are engraft in him , may be freed from both ; the merit of his blood , and fire of his spirit , and not any other Purgatorie effectuating that to vs. Not , that by this ouerthrow of that distinction of sinne into mortall and veniall , ( which at last among the Papists becomes also venall ) that we denie an inequalitie to be in sinnes , and so consequently in their due punishments . Sometimes prouoking to sinne ( as Balak 〈…〉 did the people in Ahabs time , as in sinnes o● opinion , contra verum .


id: A31873
author: Calamy, Benjamin, 1642-1686.
title: Some considerations about the case of scandal, or, Giving offence to weak brethren
date: 1683
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19468
sentence: 375
flesch: 41
cache: cache/A31873.xml
txt: txt/A31873.txt
summary:
  Whatever Scandal may follow is wholly accidental , and the fault and mistake of those only , who are Offended , and to provide always against such Scandals is an impossible undertaking ; for they may follow the most innocent actions , nay the most necessary duties , and this Argument concludes as strongly against obedience to any other Command of God , if by it my Brother may stumble , or be offended , or be made weak , as it doth against submission to our Superiours in things lawful . They that make these Objections do not sufficiently consider , that by Gods Law we are bound to obey the Lawful Commands of our Superiours ; and it is not only the Law or Ordinance of Man , of which they seem to make so little account , but it is the Law of God also , that is violated by our disobedience to our Governours in things Lawful : The Comparison therefore ought not to be only , as they make it , between an human Authority determining some indifferent things , and the divine Law of charity to the Soul of our Brother , but between the divine Command of obedience to our Superiours , and the avoiding of Scandal : Here we affirm , that we cannot be bound to transgress a plain Law of God , or which is all one in this Question , a lawful command of our Superiours for fear of some evil that may by chance happen to some others through their own fault ; and we prove it by this reason , which our Dissenting Brethren must own for true and good , because every one is bound to have a greater care of his own than others Salvation , and consequently rather to avoid sin in himself , than to prevent it in his Brethren .


id: A67736
author: Younge, Richard.
date: 1655
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19830
sentence: 623
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A67736.xml
txt: txt/A67736.txt
title:
  Armour of proof, or a soveraign antidote, against the contagion of evil company Together with the skill, will, and industry of lewd ones; in tempting to sin, and drawing to perdition. Being subjects of concernment for the younger sort. The second part. By R. Younge of Roxwel in Essex, Florilegus.

summary:
  so we find it reco●ded in holy Writ , that some , by a spiritual Ant p●●ist●●sis , have grown horter in their z●ale , by being encompassed with the outward cold o● Wicked and irreligious company : like Roses and Lillies , which flourish the more for being beset with T●●nes : and Violets , which are the sweeter and more od●ri●erous ▪ for being beset with Garlick and Onie●s ; for as much as they suck and draw all the ill ●avours of the ground unto them . Prov. 1 , 10. 15. ●●NDON , Printed by I. M. for Iames Crump , in Little Bartholomews Well-yard , 1655.


id: A19297
author: Cooper, Thomas, fl. 1626.
date: 1619
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 21606
sentence: 743
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A19297.xml
txt: txt/A19297.txt
title:
  The worldlings aduenture discouering the fearefull estate of all earthwormes, and men of this world, in hazarding their pretious soules for the enioying of worldly happines / deliuered in two sermons before the worthy visitors of the right worshipfull Company of the Grocers, at the visitation of their free grammar schoole at Oundell in North-Hamptonshire, by Thomas Cooper, Batchelour in Diuinity, imployed in that businesse.

summary:
  So hereby shall wee approoue that we are risen with Christ , if our affections be set vpon things that are aboue , and not on things below ; and the lesse care we haue of earthly things , the more are our hearts enflamed with the Law of God : the more enliued with the hope of a better life . As for the other ; That one man may exercise diuers ciuill Callings : As this is apparent by the practise of our Land , where some Merchants euer vse other Trades : Mercers abroad sell things belonging to many Trades ; so I see not but that it may be warrantable by the word , which so enioyneth vs to be contented with the Calling that God hath placed vs in ; as the seruant , while he is a seruant , is not to encroach vpon the Calling of the Maister ; as that it denieth not , but when we are for our selues , we may follow what Calling we please , though we bee not bound thereto ; so wee haue skill therein , and respect the publike good , hinder not our Spirituall Calling : and obserue the Sacred Lawes and Customes of the Countrey wherein we liue : because one Calling will not serue to redeeme the time , and maintaine our charge and therefore in these respects we may lawfully imploy our selues in diuers .


id: A79552
author: Grandison, William Villiers, Viscount, 1614-1643.
date: 1654
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 26607
sentence: 828
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A79552.xml
txt: txt/A79552.txt
title:
  Saint Chrysostome his Parænesis, or Admonition wherein hee recalls Theodorus the fallen. Or generally an exhortation for desperate sinners. / Translated by the Lord Viscount Grandison prisoner in the Tower.

summary:
  My Lord , This treatise of the holy Father , signally invites us to be our owne Physicians : and sincerely to arraigne our soules before the face of Heaven ; it instructs us how to prize the beauties God has endowed our minds with , unlesse wee soyle them with our owne negligence ; it teaches us to preferre the care of our souls above all earthly alurements though baited with the most tempting delights ; and may well then be a fit mission from a Prison to those in the greatest liberty ; for men in restraint ( while they are most forbid vanities ) begin to know then most truly what they are ; for all deceiving delights possesse us like the Devil ; they take our wits from us ; but the correcting hand of God , whilst we are in the troubles and miseries of this world , prepares us for a better ; and here wee shall find weapons and arms fit for the fiercest conflict of that nature , here ( my Lord in this translation which I dedicate to you with that infinite desire I have ever to be esteemed Your Lordship's Most faithful servant GRANDISON . If any one voluntarily of his own free motion forsakes the light , who can accuse the light for that mans darknesse , does not he want the benefit of that light through his own folly , and willfullnesse ? So he that disdains submissively to adhere to the omnipotent power of God , and to live in the light of grace which illuminates all true believers , suffers not by the goodnesse of that power , ( which is the originall Fountain of all blessings ) but the unrulinesse of of his own rashnesse , and stupidity which so willfully brought him into his own ruin and destruction .


id: A05590
author: Lithgow, William, 1582-1645?
date: 1640
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 24394
sentence: 1068
flesch: 80
cache: cache/A05590.xml
txt: txt/A05590.txt
title:
  The gushing teares of godly sorrovv Containing the causes, conditions, and remedies of sinne, depending mainly upon contrition and confession. And they seconded, with sacred and comfortable passages, under the mourning cannopie of teares, and repentance. By William Lithgovv.

summary:
  Thus God , and Man , conjoynd in one we feele , Life of our life , and soule of our souls w●le . ●inne is the cause , which makes such judgements fall On Land-lords now , who still oppresse the poore ; They taxe and raxe them , keep them under thrall , That most are forcd , to leave both hold and doore : Whose grounds in end is sold , or else ly waste , Both Tyrants , and th' opprest , such changings taste .


id: A65821
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1677
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 24082
sentence: 884
flesch: 75
cache: cache/A65821.xml
txt: txt/A65821.txt
title:
  Mr. Thomas Wadsworth's Last warning to secure sinners being his two last sermons concerning the certainty and dreadfulness of the future misery of all impenitent ungodly sinners : to which is prefixed an epistle of Mr. Richard Baxter's.

summary:
  To acquaint men with this ▪ is our Ministerial Office ; we are charged to set before them the great Salvation which Christ hath procured , and importunately to beseech them to mind it , believe it , and accept it , that it may be theirs for ever : we believe God , and therefore we speak to men as he hath commanded us : We intreat them in his Name , to turn from sinful enmity and folly , and to be reconciled to God , and be wise for their Salvation : We tell them but what Gods word sent from heaven , telleth us and them , That holiness is the love of God and goodness , and the hatred of sin ; that the pure in heart are blessed , for they shall see God. 58.1 , 2. and yet we cannot get them to regard and feel ; God saith , Awake thou that sleepest , and Christ shall give thee light ; and yet we cannot get them to awake , nor hear us like men that have the use of reason , and love themselves .


id: A53731
author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
date: 1688
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 31615
sentence: 1364
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A53731.xml
txt: txt/A53731.txt
title:
  A treatise of the dominion of sin and grace wherein sin's reign is discovered, in whom it is, and in whom it is not : how the law supports it, how grace delivers from it, by setting up its dominion the heart / by John Owen ...

summary:
  The appearing evidences of it , are their adding drunkenness unto thirst ; one kind of sin unto another , making a visible Progress in sinning , adding boasting and a profane Contempt of all things Sacred , unto their Course in Sin. Convictions on the one hand , will make a great Pretence and Appearance of an Opposition in the Will unto Sin , by their unavoidable Impressions on it , when it is not so . And disturbed Affections under Temptations , will plead , that the Will it self is given up unto the choice and service of sin , when it is not so .


id: A33462
author: Capel, Richard, 1586-1656.
date: 1658
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 29510
sentence: 1343
flesch: 80
cache: cache/A33462.xml
txt: txt/A33462.txt
title:
  Capel's remains being an useful appendix to his excellent Treatise of tentations, concerning the translations of the Holy Scriptures : left written with his own hand / by that incomparably learned and jucicious divine, Mr. Richard Capel, sometimes fellow of Magdalen-Colledge in Oxford ; with a preface prefixed, wherein is contained an abridgement of the authors life, by his friend Valentine Marshall.

summary:
  He would bolt out that , out of the holy book of God , that would not come into any other mans consideration ; yet it should be genuine ; and evidently appearing to be the drift and meaning of the holy Ghost . Having this hope then , he used great plainnesse of speech ; and by the manifestation of the truth , He commended himself to every mans conscience , in the sight of God ; and hath so well seasoned the country , that I hope the fruit will remain , and be seene many a yeare hence .


id: A16314
author: Bolton, Robert, 1572-1631, attributed name.
date: 1634
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 30437
sentence: 954
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A16314.xml
txt: txt/A16314.txt
title:
  The carnall professor Discovering the wofull slavery of a man guided by the flesh. Distinguishing a true spirituall Christian that walkes close with God, from all formalists in religion, rotten hearted hypocrites, and empty powerlesse professors whatsoever. By that faithfull servant of Christ, Robert Bolton B.D. late preacher in Northampton Shire.

summary:
  Whereas in the time of innocēcy man relyed himself upon God for an happy estate , and gave credit to his promises ; now though he protest and binde it with a solemne oath , no man beleeveth him ; though hee hath sent his beloved Sonne from his owne bosome to ransome us out of our spirituall captivity , and left it for ever in perpetuall record , witnessed by men and Angells , yet who regardeth it in his heart ? or blesseth God in his soule for the same ? Iesus Christ of Nazareth the Carpenters sonne , was too base a fellow to gratifie the stately personages of our times : When men come to the Ordinance , their consciences are many times wrought upon more strongly than they would , now it is good simply for the conscience thus to run and it is a token of Gods great love unto man to furnish his minde with such a reflecting faculty upon himselfe .


id: A09981
author: Preston, John, 1587-1628.
date: 1633
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 36965
sentence: 1247
flesch: 75
cache: cache/A09981.xml
txt: txt/A09981.txt
title:
  A liveles life: or, Mans spirituall death in sinne Wherein is both learnedly and profitably handled these foure doctrines the spirituall death in sinne. The doctrine of humiliation. Mercy to be found in Christ. Continuance in sinne, dangerous. Being the substance of severall sermons upon Ephes. 2. 1,2,3. And you hath he quickned, who were dead in trespasses and sins, &c. Whereunto is annexed a profitable sermon at Lincolnes Inne, on Gen. XXII. XIV. Delivered by that late faithful preacher, and worthy instrument of Gods glory, Iohn Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Maiesty, master of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes-Inne.

summary:
  A man when he corrects his childe , he doth it unwillingly ; but when hee is fit for mercy , hee is glad to shew that : why so it is with the Lord , hee being willing to doe it , and exceeding able , for hee is a Physician that is able to heale the most dangerous diseases , and shall wee then doubt of the accomplishment ? It is a common fault amongst us to measure the Lord according to our selves ; and so when we see man cannot helpe us , we thinke that God cannot ; but he that can turne Winter into a Summer , can speedily turne our estates when we are fit for it : As a Physician that administers hard potions to his Patient , it is not because he cannot or will not give him pleasant things , but it is because his Patient is not fit for it ; for as soone as hee is fit for Cordials , hee most willingly gives them unto him : And as the Husbandman , hee is willing enough to sowe his seed in the earth , and would bee glad if the time were come ; I but hee knoweth if he so we it on the wilde waste ground it would be lost , and therfore he plowes it first , and againe too , yea thrice if it be needfull , and then having well fitted it , hee sowes his seed ; Even so it is with the Lord , hee first plowes the ground , he digges deepe into the hearts of men if it be needfull so to doe , but if a little plowing will serve , he never takes a deeper ; and if one will serve , he never gives a second ; and therefore when we are fit to receive the seed , mercy shall come in amaine amongst us , even as that which goes with wind and tide ; yea , it shall come as fast as our misery did , which though it comes headlong upon us as it did upon Nebuchadnezzar , yet how quickly did the Lord deliver him againe ? and so shall it , bee with us , because the Lord is delighted with mercy , therefore the Lord doth usually helpe in extremities , and not before ; for in the Mount will the Lord be seene . Thirdly , the Lord doth not deliver till the time of extremity , that we may know the vanity of the creature . And see that they are but as reeds that are empty : as for example , when a man is brought to some great straight , and sees that men will forsake him in it , as the Lord will cause them to doe when he will bring a man to a streight indeed , for then he will shew him that there is no helpe in man ; as when a man that is sicke , and so farre gone that no physicke will doe him good , but all Physicians have left him ; or when a man hath some great businesse in hand , and nothing that he hath will effect it ; and so likewise a man at Sea , when hee is in such a tempest that neither rowing nor any thing else will doe him good , then when men are in such cases , they come to see the vanity of the creature , and that all outward meanes will start aside like a broken bow ; for a broken bow being drawne but a little , will hold ; but if it bee drawne up to the head , then it breakes in the hand of him that handles it : Even so , when the creature is put to it , then the vanity of them is seene , and that they are but as hollow reeds that are empty , and so not bee trusted to .


id: A10824
author: Robertson, Bartholomew, fl. 1620.
date: 1619
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 32647
sentence: 612
flesch: 47
cache: cache/A10824.xml
txt: txt/A10824.txt
title:
  The anatomie of a distressed soule Wherein, the faults of the elect,are discerned from the sinnes of the wicked, spirituall defections cured, confused consciences resolued, all meanes of presumption and desperation remoued, the sicknesse, dulnesse, and deadnesse of the spirit releeued, crosses and temptations inward, and afflictions outward remedied, for the benefite of all that groane vnder the burthen of sinne, and feeling of Gods anger, thirsting for the sense of reconciliation in the blood of the lambe.

summary:
  if these bee olde thou knowest the danger , cut the thorne in the roote , mussle the boare , bruise the head of the Serpent , yea destroy it in the very egge before it be hatcht ; by the fall of others in sinne , thou maist be taught to stand , and rise if thou be fallen , and as cōcerning the accusation of thy conscience thou speakest of , thou shalt neuer labour to leaue sinne so long as thou art quiet in minde , vntill thou be stricken with feare , or cast downe with iudgements , then if thou looke to my highest maiesty offended by sinne , the benefits which bound thee to doe my will , how neare thy sinnes pierce mee , the purpose and ende thou tendest to in sinne , the time and place of transgression , & last if thou see the loathsomenesse and deformity of sinne : for that a stinching carrion is more tolerable to the sent , then a sinfull soule vnto me , if thou narrowly consider how huge and detestable thy sins will seeme , for by them thou art made like vnto the diuell himself , I haue imprinted naturally in all a condemnation of sinne , that euen committing it , thou shouldest condemne it in thy selfe , and be ashamed of it before others , wo vnto them that are depriued of this naturall remorse , & to them that account that vertue , which I condemne for a crime , though it seem little to thee in committing sinne , it was very great in my Sonne in suffering for it , if sinnes were not so vsuall , they would seeme more palpeable and prodigious , and therefore the senses which are oceasions of sinne , ought to be well ordered , to make a couenant with thy eyes , with thy mouth and eares , that thy heart walke not after them , that It is not light that is heauier then all the world , I esteem one iot of my lawe , more then heauen and earth , secret corruptions be light , as Baltasar was in Daniels interpretation , which is the losse not of an earthly kingdome such as his was , but of the kingdome of heauen ; the maladies of the soule are contrarie to those of the body , for these the greater they be , the more we seele them , the other the lesse , while thy sinne is as a more , and may bee as it were blowen out , make thee free of it ; when it shall bee a beame , it shall scarce be haled out with horses , it shold be thy earely and morning worke to cast out sinnes , tarry not while thy sinne be great , but pray with feeling of wants and sorrowe for sinne , else sinne will deceiue thee , and deceiuing thee will harme thee , make fatte thy heart thou shalt not perceiue it , & blinde thy minde thou shalt not see it , for when wickednesse is at the ripest , then destruction is nearest at hand , wherefore while sinne is yet in the sprout , and hauing but a little course , is vnable to make any great breach , keepe it vnder and stay it , is is hard to get vnto the way of goodnesse , harder to continue in it , but hardest of all when thou art out of the way to come in again , when sinne breaketh out without controulement , and beareth the sway with delight , to the breaking of the peace with the conscience , it is very dangerous , thou oughtest of ten to say , direct my steps in thy worde , and let no iniquity haue dominion ouer mee , keepe mee from presumtuous sins , let them not raigne ouer mee , tarrie not I say vntill the dead blow commeth , but resist the first stroakes of sinne , for then thou maiest be easily hardened thorough the deceitfulnesse of sinne , to day if thou heare my voyce , harden not thy heart ; the violence of sinne is so impetuous that thou mayest soone slip , but hardly rise : blessed therefore is the man that feareth alway , but hee that hardeneth his heart shall fall into euill ; without sinne thou shalt not be , but pray it may be forgiuen , neither voyd of tentations ( for of all tentations not to bee tempted is the greatest ) but that thou bee not ouercome of them .


id: A53715
author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
date: 1668
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 44874
sentence: 1724
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A53715.xml
txt: txt/A53715.txt
title:
  Of the mortification of sin in believers: the 1. Necessity, 2. Nature, and 3. Means of it. With a resolution of sundry cases of conscience thereunto belonging. By John Owen, D.D. a servant of Jesus Christ in the work of the Gospel.

summary:
  2. Sin doth not onely still abide in us , but is still acting , still labouring to bring forth the deeds of the Flesh ; When sin lets us alone , we may let Sin alone : But as Sin is never less quiet , than when it seems to be most quiet ; and its waters are for the most part deep , when they are still ; so ought our contrivances against it to be ; vigorous at all times , in all conditions , even where there is least suspition . Now this cannot be done without the daily Mortifying of sin : Sin sets its strength against every Act of Holiness , and against every degree we grow to .


id: A09462
author: Perkins, William, 1558-1602.
date: 1604
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 46114
sentence: 2072
flesch: 80
cache: cache/A09462.xml
txt: txt/A09462.txt
title:
  Satans sophistrie ansuuered by our Sauiour Christ and in diuers sermons further manifested / by that worthy man Maister William Perkins ; to which is added, a comfort for the feeble minded, wherein is set downe the temptations of a Christian.

summary:
  The want of the knowledge of the Gospell and the word of God , is the ●ery cause that sin so abounds in al places : for ●he word of God should be vnto vs as Sauls ●eare which he vsed to set at his beds head , 〈◊〉 that if any enemy set vpō vs on the sodain , ●ur weapō might be euer at hand in readines ●hat we might answer the Diuel in his instruments if he tempt vs to any sin whatsoeu●● that as here Christ said , It is written ; so 〈◊〉 must say , I may not lie , sweare , commit ad●●tery , &c. for it is written . &c. Seeing Christ by his own practise , teache● vs that the word of God written , beleeue● vnderstood , & truly applied , is the most al● and all-sufficient weapon to resist the diue● how ought this to stirre vp all men to serio●● studie of the word of God ? How should moue euery man as he loueth his soule , to ●● bor for a sound knowledge & vnderstanding of the holy Scripture , seeing this is the b● weapon to foile the diuell ? In him is our helpe , from him is our comfort , by him is our victorie , and for him is our trouble . a In thee haue I trusted , saith a king : b who euer was confounded that trusted in the Lord , said a friend ? and as El●anah was to c Hannah in stead of many sons , so God is to his in stead of many comforters .


id: A42198
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1675
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 45288
sentence: 1184
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A42198.xml
txt: txt/A42198.txt
title:
  One come from the dead, to awaken drunkards and whoremongers being a sober and severe testimony against the sins and the sinners, in an exact description of the nature and danger of these two soul-destroying evils : together with proper and sovereign remedies / by Richard Garbut ... ; with epistles to the reader, by Mr. R. Baxter, and Mr. William Jenkins.

summary:
  Does not the Scripture make him to be in any thing as bad , ( ●…y worse too ) that takes pleasure in others that d●…e a sin , than him th●…t do●…s the 〈◊〉 himself ? They do n●…t onely do such 〈◊〉 , b●…t take pleasure in them th●…t do th●…m . We use to say of a Drunkard in drink , that he is well bit ; and it is true indeed , he is Serpent-bit , he is b●…t with that biting that bites wealth out of his Purse , for the Drunkard and the Glut●…on shall come to poverty , Proverbs 23. 21. Which bites Health out of his body , for who within a while have commonly less Health , than they that still are drinking Healths ? Which bites Wit and naturall Parts out of the Head ; For Wine is a mocker , and whoever is deceived thereby sh●…ll not be wise , Prov. 20. 1. Which bites Grace and Gods Spirit out of the heart ; Be not drunk with Wine but be filled with the Spirit , Eph. 5. 18. To be filled with the Spirit of wine and with the Holy Spirit are made opposites , & such as cannot stand together ; he is therefore bit indeed , Serpent-bit in this manner as you have heard ; and therefore what holdest thou in thy hand , thou Drunkard , what holdest thou in thy hand ? Is not the Glass often-times thou drinkest in born up with a couple , and sometimes with a cluster of Snakes or Serpents ? Let the Serpent on the out-side put thee in mind of the Serpent within ; the Serpents without are toothless Serpents , and cannot bite ; but the Serpent within is a toothed , and a venom-toothed Serpent , bites , and bites deadly , deriving poyson to the state of thy Wealth , to the state of thy Health , to the s●…ate of thy Naturals , impairing Wit and Endowments Natural ; and to the state most of all of thy supernat●…rals , leaving thy heart as empty of grace as thou the Cup of Liquor , or at most but some very snusss in it .


id: A09156
author: Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.
date: 1627
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 39375
sentence: 2195
flesch: 79
cache: cache/A09156.xml
txt: txt/A09156.txt
title:
  The Isle of Man: or, the legall proceeding in Man-shire against sinne Wherein, by way of a continued allegorie, the chiefe malefactors disturbing both Church and common-wealth, are detected and attached; with their arraignment, and iudiciall triall, according to the lawes of England. The spirituall vse thereof, with an apologie for the manner of handling, most necessary to be first read, for direction in the right vse of the allegory thorowout, is added in the end. By R.B. ...

summary:
  The reading of this Commission before the whole Countie , is Euery mans experimentall Knowledge of the power of Conscience , by which is acknowledged his Authoritie , to sit as Iudge ouer euery thought , word and deed of man. Mistrisse Heart , thou art heere indited by the name of Mistrisse Heart of Soule , in the County of the Isle of Man , that also vpon the day of Mans fall in Paradise , thou becamest corrupted , accompanying the Old-man , and also Will thy man , and hast beene so hardened , that thou couldest not repent , and so blinde , that thou becamest past feeling , and hast made men to giue themselues ouer to all lasciuiousnesse , to worke all vncleannesse , euen with greedinesse , to bee also very slow to beleeue all that the Prophets haue spoken : and to be so enraged with choller , somtimes as to runne mercilesly on Innocents to murther them , and to cause men most cursedly to depart from the liuing God.


id: A09364
author: Perkins, William, 1558-1602.
date: 1604
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 48949
sentence: 2215
flesch: 76
cache: cache/A09364.xml
txt: txt/A09364.txt
title:
  The first part of The cases of conscience Wherein specially, three maine questions concerning man, simply considered in himselfe, are propounded and resolued, according to the word of God. Taught and deliuered, by M. William Perkins in his Holy-day lectures, by himselfe revised before his death, and now published for the benefit of the Church.

summary:
  The first part of The cases of conscience Wherein specially, three maine questions concerning man, simply considered in himselfe, are propounded and resolued, according to the word of God. The first part of The cases of conscience Wherein specially, three maine questions concerning man, simply considered in himselfe, are propounded and resolued, according to the word of God.


id: A39932
author: Ford, Thomas, 1598-1674.
date: 1668
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 78306
sentence: 2945
flesch: 75
cache: cache/A39932.xml
txt: txt/A39932.txt
title:
  Aytokatakritos or, the sinner condemned of himself being a plea for God, against all the ungodly, proving them alone guilty of their own destruction; and that they shall be condemned in the great day of account, not for that they lacked, but only because they neglected the means of their salvation. And also, shewing, how fallacious and frivolous a pretence it is in any, to say, they would do better, if they could; when indeed all men could, and might do better, if they would. By one, that wisheth better to all, than most do to themselves.

summary:
  Qu. 25. † Decret●m non tol●it lib●●tatem . As if they wanted nothing but Light , to see , whether he was the Messias indee● .


id: A10024
author: Preston, John, 1587-1628.
date: 1633
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 84230
sentence: 2410
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A10024.xml
txt: txt/A10024.txt
title:
  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.

summary:
  Now seeing Mortification is so hard a worke , and yet a worke that of necessity must bee done : Men also be so hardly drawne to mortifie their lusts , which they account as a part of themselves , not to bee parted withall ; for Nature her selfe hath implanted this principle in them , Every man ought to love himselfe , what then should move any man to mortifie his lusts ? therefore for the better perswading of men unto this work , we will lay downe some motives to move every man to mortifie his corruptions . Therefore when you heare a man that hath rotten speeches in his mouth , say , that man grieves the Spirit ; for there is nothing so odious and contrary to men , as these are to the Spirit : and therefore if you would keepe the Spirit , then let your words be gracious , powdred with salt ; that is , with the grace of the Spirit proceeding from a sanctified heart : and as speeches , so all evill actions , in like manner , grieve the heart .


