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…

they may put a false colour upon their actions but it will not hold, they may restrain some lusts for some ends, but such ⟨p. 136⟩cannot master and subdue them, and it may heat a part of his heart, but it cannot heat all his heart; but where the sanctifying Spirit comes, it heats all the soul, kindles a holy fire in all the faculties, to burn up sin which is there; And this was the difference between John Baptists Baptism, and the Baptism of Christ. John would baptize them with water; but Christ in the spirit and with fire: therefore examine what heat there is in you against evil, and what zeal there is in you to good, are you cold in prayer, in conference, in the Communion of Saints, it is a sign that you have not the spirit: it may be you hear, and read, and pray, and confer, but see with what heat you do them. Is it with you in these things, as the Apostle would have you to be in earthly, 1 Cor. 7. 30. 31. To sorrow, as if ye sorrowed not; to use the world as if you used it not: do you perform holy ¹duties with that coldness as if you cared not whether you did them, or did them not, do you hear as if you heard not, and do you receive the Sacrament as if you received it not, and do you pray as if you prayed not, and do you love as if you loved it not: then surely, you have not the Spirit: And on the contrary, if you find spiritual heat and zeal in you, a nimbleness and quickness to good, it is a sign that you have the Spirit, for it is the property of the Spirit to heat the soul; therefore the Prophet saith, That the zeal of thine House hath even eaten me up: Intimating, I have such a measure of zeal wrought in me by thy ⟨p. 137⟩Spirit, that I cannot see thee in the least measure dishonoured, but I must burn with zeal. Therefore examine, what zeal you have for God and godliness; are you hot for the things of the world, and cold for grace and holiness; whatsoever you think of your selves, yet you have not the sanctifying Spirit. There is not a holy man or woman, that belongs unto Christ, but they have this holy fire in them, and yet I would not have you to mistake me, as if every Christian did attain unto the like heat and zeal as others do: