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…

But you may say, that sometimes the spirit seems to be dead in the heart: therefore it is not ¹always working.

But you may say, that sometimes the spirit seemes to bee dead in the heart: therefore it is not ¹alwayes working.

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To this I answer that the property of the spirit is always to work, and it doth always work, ¹but he may sometimes withdraw his actions of growing, as when a temptation comes: and you are taken in it: there the spirit seems to absent himself by with drawing his power, but notwithstanding he works still, for at the instant, there is lusting, and labouring in you against it, and afterwards he gives you power to return again. Again, it is not always thus with you, but sometimes: thus much for this use.

To this I answer that the property of the spirit is alwayes to worke, and it doth alwayes worke, ¹but he may sometimes withdraw his actions of growing, as when a temptation comes: and you are taken in it: there the spirit seemes to absent himselfe by with drawing his power, but notwithstanding he workes still, for at the instant, there is lusting, and labouring in you against it, and afterwards hee gives you power to returne againe. Againe, it is not alwayes thus with you, but sometimes: thus much for this use.

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