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Remains of that reverend and learned divine, John Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplain in…Remaines of that reverend and learned divine, Iohn Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplaine in…
Remains of that reverend and learned divine, John Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, master of Emanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolns-Inn Containing three excellent treatises, namely, Judas's repentance. The saints spiritual strength. Pauls conversion.Remaines of that reverend and learned divine, Iohn Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Majesty, master of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes-Inne Containing three excellent treatises, namely, Iudas's repentance. The saints spirituall strength. Pauls conversion.
London: printed by John Beale for Andrew Crooke, 1634
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4. Hypocritical repentance is violent and earnest at the first, & slack afterwards; but true grace grows more and more: false, is like a land-flood, great on a sudden, but quickly dried up again, but in true grace it's as in a natural birth, the beginning is small, but it grows stronger and stronger; hypocrites are hot at the first, but quickly grown cool. I deny not but that a godly man may abate of his strength of grace as a child may fall sick and abate of his strength and beauty; but it's but a sickness, and commonly after it they shoot up the more: so the godly, though for a while they may be sick, yet afterward they grow in grace the more for that sickness. The motion of the wicked is violent, ⟨p. 30⟩swiftest at the first, but slack afterward; but the motion of the godly is natural, slowest at the first, but after it's swifter and swifter.
4. Hypocriticall repentance is violent and earnest at the first, & slack afterwards; but true grace grows more and more: false, is like a land-flood, great on a sudden, but quickly dried up again, but in true grace it's as in a naturall birth, the begining is small, but it growes stronger and stronger; hypocrites are hot at the first, but quickly grown coole. I deny not but that a godly man may abate of his strength of grace as a childe may fall sicke and abate of his strength and beauty; but it's but a sicknesse, and commonly after it they shoot up the more: so the godly, though for a while they may be sicke, yet afterward they grow in grace the more for that sicknesse. The motion of the wicked is violent, ⟨p. 30⟩swiftest at the first, but slacke afterward; but the motion of the godly is naturall, slowest at the first, but after it's swifter and swifter.
2. Having already shown the difference between true and false repentance, I will now show the difference between true and false confession.