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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
THE SAINTS SPIRITUAL STRENGTH.THE SAINTS SPIRITVALL STRENGTH.
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.
but on the contrary, if your opinions of sin be the same, if you have the same lusts reigning in you, if you use the same evil company, and have the same haunts that ever you had, you have not the Spirit, and so long as you remain thus, do you think that Christ will come and sup, and dine with you, and yet you will not erect a building for Him in your hearts: therefore if you would have Christ and the Spirit, then labour to get holiness.
but on the contrary, if your opinions of sinne be the same, if you have the same lusts reigning in you, if you use the same evill company, and have the same haunts that ever you had, you have not the Spirit, and so long as you remaine thus, doe you thinke that Christ will come and sup, and dine with you, and yet you will not erect a building for Him in your hearts: therefore if you would have Christ and the Spirit, then labour to get holinesse.
The fourth sign, whereby you may know whether ⟨p. 150⟩1you have the spirit or no, is this: if it be but a common spirit you shall find that it will do by you as the Angels do by assumed bodies, they take them up for a time, and do many things with them to serve their own turns, but they do not put life in them: such is the common spirit, but the sanctifying spirit puts life into the soul. Wherefore examine your selves whether the spirit makes you living men, or no, for when the sanctifying Spirit shall join with the soul of a man, it will make him to do suitable things, and bring forth suitable actions: for as the body is dead without the soul, so the soul hath of it self no spiritual life to good without the spirit: wherefore as Paul speaks of unchaste widows, that they are dead while they live: 1 Tim. 5. vers. 6. so I may say of every man that hath not the spirit, they are dead men, dead to God, to good, to grace, to holiness: I say, there is no life without the Spirit, men are not living men, because they walk, and talk, and the like: but they are living men that live in the spirit, and by the spirit: and on the contrary, there is no true life, neither are men to be esteemed living men that want the spirit.