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…

Now follows the event of all, He went and hanged himself. Whence learn, That Gods wrath and sin are exceeding terrible and ¹unsupportable, when they are once charged on the conscience.

Now followes the event of all, Hee went and hanged himselfe. Whence learne, That Gods wrath and sinne are exceeding terrible and ¹unsupportable, when they are once charged on the conscience.

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This made Judas to hang himself. Do but a little consider mans nature, how loth to destroy himself, how afraid to be killed, and you shall find it to be some great matter that must cause him to make an end of himself, and to cast himself into that which he feared; namely, hell: thus heavy is sin when God once chargeth it on the conscience, that it maketh a man do all this. Indeed sin was as heavy before, but then it lay at our foot, and we felt it not; but when God lays it once on our shoulders, and on our Consciences, then shall we feel the burden thereof to be far beyond all torments that can be imagined. See this in Christ, when God did but charge our sins on him, how intolerable were they?

This made Iudas to hang himselfe. Doe but a little consider mans nature, how loth to destroy himselfe, how afraid to be killed, and you shall find it to bee some great matter that must cause him to make an end of himselfe, and to cast himselfe into that which he feared; namely, hell: thus heavy is sinne when God once chargeth it on the conscience, that it maketh a man doe all this. Indeed sinne was as heavy before, but then it lay at our foot, and we felt it not; but when God layes it once on our shoulders, and on our Consciences, then shall wee feele the burthen thereof to be farre beyond all torments that can be imagined. See this in Christ, when God did but charge our sinnes on him, how intollerable werethey?