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…

The next use stands thus, if the holy Ghost strengthens us in the inward man, then let me exhort ¹you above all things to seek the Spirit, because it will do so: what would a man desire either for the outward or inward man; if he have the spirit, he shall obtain it, would a man be enabled to pray, would a man be enabled to bear losses and crosses: would a man master particular lusts, is a man in bondage, and would be set at liberty from sin, is a man spiritually dead, and numb, is a man spiritually affrighted with sin? would a

The next use stands thus, if the holy Ghost strengthens us in the inward man, then let me exhort ¹you above all things to seeke the Spirit, because it will doe so: what would a man desire either for the outward or inward man; if he have the spirit, he shall obtaine it, would a man be inabled to pray, would a man bee inabled to beare losses and crosses: would a man master particular lusts, is a man in bondage, and would bee set at liberty from sinne, is a man spiritually dead, and numbe, is a man spiritually affrighted with sinne? would a

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there they took away his strength; and it weakens us, because it draws the affections away from God, but when the spirit comes, then it casts us into another frame; as appears, if we do but compare these two places together, James 4. 5. with Act. 20. 22. Saint James saith, that the spirit ¹lusteth after envy: it labours to carry us head long unto the committing of sin, and to the doing of that which is evil; but then comes the sanctifying spirit, and it stays us and makes us to lust after good, that is, it binds up our hearts, and suffers us not to do that which otherwayes we would do: therefore examine whether you are bound with another spirit that you do not the evil that you would: then it is certain that you have the holy spirit; Therefore Paul in the place before named said, that he was bound in the spirit for Jerusalem: as if he should say, the Spirit of God bound up my Spirit to go, that I cannot otherwise choose, therefore what do you mean to break my heart, do you mean to hinder me, I tell you there is a kind of necessity laid upon me by the spirit, and I must go whatsoever doth befall me: for it is the office of the spirit to bind up our spirits, and therefore in