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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.
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.
The fourth signe, 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 doe by you as the Angels doe by assumed bodies, they take them up for a time, and doe many things with them to serve their owne turnes, but they doe not put life in them: such is the common spirit, but the sanctirying spirit puts life into the soule. Wherefore examine your selves whether the spirit makes you living men, or no, for when the sanctifying Spirit shall joyne with the soule of a man, it will make him to doe suteable things, and bring forth suteable actions: for as the body is dead without the soule, so the soule hath of it selfe no spirituall life to good without the spirit: wherefore as Paul speakes of unchast widdowes, that they are dead while they live: