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…

He that for saketh father and mother, and wife, and children, and life for my sake, shall ¹receive a thousand-fold in the life to come: but men will not believe it, but a time will come when you shall see it to be true: and befool your selves, that you lost so precious a bargain as Christ and salvation is, for the disbursing of a little profit and pleasure, but as I said before, the difference lies here, men want faith, and hence it is, that they neglect the strengthening of the inward man, and are so over-burdened with losses and crosses, because they want faith; And so much for the third difference.

He that for saketh father and mother, and wife, and children, and life for my sake, shall ¹receive a thousand-fold in the life to come: but men will not beleeve it, but a time will come when you shall see it to bee true: and befoole your selves, that you lost so precious a bargaine as Christ and salvation is, for the disbursing of a little profit and pleasure, but as I said before, the difference lyes here, men want faith, and hence it is, that they neglect the strengthning of the inward man, and are so over-burthened with losses and crosses, because they want faith; And so much for the third difference.

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The fourth difference is this, the natural strength leads a man but unto a form of godliness, ¹but the spiritual strength leads a man unto the power of godliness: I call that the form of godliness, when a man doth perform, or do any thing with carnal affections not to a right end, and this is known by this, when they fall away from that steadfastness, or form and show of holiness that they seemed to have: this form of godliness is the same with that in