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…

Secondly, I call it a temperature or right frame of the mind, because it sets the soul ¹in order, that is, it sets a new habit on the faculties, and fixes the soul on fit objects for these habits: the soul was before like a disordered clock that went at random, every thing was out of its place, but when the strength of the inward man comes into the soul, it frames it anew, and puts it into a right temper again. Thirdly, I say, whereby a man is able to please God in all things, ²because it sets a good hew upon all our actions: for as Varnish makes all Colours fresh: so doth the Inward man, it sets a deep dye upon all our actions; a glass upon them, and makes them beautiful: nothing without it will hold trial: every thing that hath the tincture of the inward man upon it, will hold good: this sets the stamp of holiness upon them: and therefore they are acceptable to God.

Secondly, I call it a temperature or right frame of the mind, because it sets the soule ¹in order, that is, it sets a new habite on the faculties, and fixes the soule on fit objects for these habits: the soule was before like a disordered clocke that went at randome, every thing was out of its place, but when the strength of the inward man comes into the soule, it frames it anew, and puts it into a right temper againe. Thirdly, I say, whereby a man is able to please God in all things, ²because it sets a good hew upon all our actions: for as Varnish makes all Colours fresh: so doth the Inward man, it sets a deepe dye upon all our actions; a glasse upon them, and makes them beautifull: nothing without it will hold tryall: every thing that hath the tincture of the inward man upon it, will hold good: this sets the stampe of holinesse upon them: and therefore they are acceptable to God.

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