Sins Overthrow, by John Preston, 1634. An Excerpt.
Channel: Take Up The Cross
Date: 2018-03-03

Sins Overthrow, by John Preston, 1634. An Excerpt.

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
~ 1 Corinthians 5:7

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
~ Romans 8:13

Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
~ Exodus 12:15

But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. 
~ 1 Corinthians 5:13

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
~ Colossians 3:5-9

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
~ Ephesians 4:22

"Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth fornication, uncleanness inordinate affection evil concupiscence and so on but what is evil concupiscence. That's what we were going to look at today. Now I should proceed to some application of this point but because there is a third particular which has much affinity with the two former: namely fornication and uncleanness I will first because that which is here in my text evil concupiscence. By concupiscence men understand the degree of this lust of uncleanness. And it is an evil inclination and the power of the soul the doctrine is this evil concupiscence as one of the sins which are likewise to be mortified. We have to give a reason for because men will hardly be persuaded that it is a sin. So it is with the heathen they thought there was no sin in it. The first reason is if concupiscence does cleave to a man that is evil inclinations which the soul by sin has been to, then actual sin will follow which is the fruit of this concupiscence. It is as a spark of fire which being let alone will grow greater and greater and like leaven though little at the first, yet does it leaven the whole lump so that it does produce the works of the flesh and therefore it is to be mortified. The second reason is although a man does not fall into actual sin presently after there is the concupiscence in the heart yet being unmodified it hides a sin in a man and so defiles him and makes him prone to an evil disposition and also to be abominable before God. Therefore mortify concupiscence before it come to have a vigor and strength in you a man is said to be an evil man when he is distracted from good to evil. Now evil concupiscence makes a man to be so. There are evil inclinations and a good man and yet it is by way of anticipation and it is not his complexion. Constitution to have them now an evil man has concupiscence and the same as his complexion and constitution so to be therefore if he will can keep assumes be not mortified it makes a man to be bad. And in this regard we ought to cleanse ourselves from the pollution of this sin the third reason is evil concupiscence being in a man it mars all his good actions. To mingle water with wine and makes the wine the worse. To mingle dross with silver it makes a silver in the more impure. So evil concupiscence being in the soul of a man it just stains and blemishes good actions. When a string of an instrument is out of tune, the music doth jar. A man that has strong concupiscence in him he will desire to come to the execution of the works of them and so it will have an influence to the effect and will stain and blemish any good work he goes about. So that evil concupiscence making a man to be evil it blemishes and stains all the good actions that a man goes about and that he does perform them either with vainglory or self-respect."

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