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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
If thou apprehend sinne and the wrath of God, 1then it is horror of conscience; for when the faculty is pinched upon the right object, to wit, sinne; then it's no melancholly; but in horror the conscience is pitched upon the right obeject, viz. sinne; for that is the proper object of the conscience: As for melancholly, that is not griefe, but extendeth griefe; as varnish is not colour, but doth extend the colour. Indeed melancholly may bee joyned with it, and draw it forth, but it comes not wholly from that, but from some other inward principle. As the fatnesse of the soyle may bring forth the corne the sooner, but yet that is not the cause thereof, but the root that it hath.
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Again I answer, that all diseases are healed by their contraries; If that this were melancholy, then might it be healed by merry company, which is the contrary unto it; but if it be the horror of conscience, then must it only be healed by the apprehension of Gods love in Jesus Christ.
Againe I answer, that all diseases are healed by their contraries; If that this were melancholly, then might it be healed by merry company, which is the contrary unto it; but if it bee the horror of conscience, then must it onely be healed by the apprehension of Gods love in Jesus Christ.