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…

2. This being done, let us comfort our selves with the Promises of the Gospel, for grace can never truly be wrought, until by the Gospel we believe, humiliation cannot do it: we must therefore know that God is exceeding merciful more than we can imagine, and lay hold upon his love in Christ, by a true faith.

2. This being done, let us comfort our selves with the Promises of the Gospell, for grace can never truly be wrought, untill by the Gospell we beleeve, humiliation cannot do it: we must therfore know that God is exceeding merciful more thē we canimagin, and lay hold upon his love in Christ, by a true faith.

Every man knows that God is merciful, but we are not fit for to receive his mercy.¹

Every man knowes that God is mercifull, but we are not fit for to receive his mercy.¹

1. 1Object.Obiect.

I answer; you know not what mercy is; It may be thou thinkest, if thou hadst more repentance, or more ¹humiliation, then thou wert fit for mercy; but thou art deceived, for the more thy heart is out of order, the fitter thou art for mercy; for the greats thy sin hath bin, the more will his mercy be seen in the forgiveness thereof. And therefore never look what your sins have been in time past, but see what your purpose & resolution is for the time to come; and (which is the hardest thing to do) labour to believe in Christ for the pardon of thy sins, and apply the promises to thy self, for a sin is never soundly healed until we apply the promises; for unless we apply the promises, we cannot truly delight in God, & until we do truly delight in God we cannot hate sin, & think well of God & goodness. And therefore, to conclude all, let us here be exhorted to labour for faith above all things which daily will increase grace in us.