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, you have but an assumed body of grace, if you have it not in a feeling manner: the ¹sanctifying spirit works a spiritual sense, and taste in the soul, that is, if you have the sanctifying spirit, then holy things will have a good taste, they will be sweet unto you, it will purge out that which is contrary to the growth of the inward man: on the contrary, the common spirit will never make you to taste grace, as it is grace, or because it is grace, that is, grace will not be a dainty thing, it will be without a good savour. Therefore examine what taste of good you have, whether you can relish grace, or no; if not, you have not the sanctifying spirit, but an assumed habit of grace, that is, a common spirit without the life of grace.

Secondly, you have but an assumed body of grace, if you have it not in a feeling manner: the ¹sanctifying spirit workes a spirituall sence, and taste in the soule, that is, if you have the sanctifying spirit, then holy things will have a good taste, they will bee sweet unto you, it will purge out that which is contrary to the growth of the inward man: on the contrary, the common spirit will never make you to taste grace, as it is grace, or because it is grace, that is, grace will not bee a dainty thing, it will bee without a good savour. Therefore examine what taste of good you have, whether you can rellish grace, or no; if not, you have not the sanctifying spirit, but an assumed habit of grace, that is, a common spirit without the life of grace.

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Thirdly, as assumed bodies are unconstant, that is, walk only for a time, but they walk not always; ¹even so if you have but a common spirit, you will not be constant in good, but off and on the rule. A man that is living in Christ, you shall