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…

Their estate for all that may be very good; for this vexation is not absolutely needful, although ¹humiliation is; wherefore if thou hast it not, seek not after it; for God useth many means: yet thou mayest take hence occasion the more to try thine estate.

Their estate for all that may be very good; for this vexation is not absolutely needfull, although ¹humiliation is; wherefore if thou hast it not, seeke not after it; for God useth many meanes: yet thou mayest take hence occasion the more to try thine estate.

1. 1Answ.

Whether comes this horror from melancholy, or how shall we discern it from melancholy?¹

Whether comes this horror from mellancholly, or how shall wee disceme it from mellancholly?¹

1. 1Quest. 4.

If thou apprehend sin and the wrath of God, ¹then it is horror of conscience; for when the faculty is pinched upon the right object, to wit, sin; then it's no melancholy; but in horror the conscience is pitched upon the right object, viz. sin; for that is the proper object of the conscience: As for melancholy, that is not grief, but extendeth grief; as varnish is not colour, but doth extend the colour. Indeed melancholy may be joined with it, and draw it forth, but it comes not wholly from that, but from some other inward principle. As the fatness of the soil may bring forth the corn the sooner, but yet that is not the cause thereof, but the root that it hath.