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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.
Fourthly, the Spirit is free, which appears by the paucity of them he chooses, he is at liberty, 1he might have saved more, but this shows his freedom, he is not tied to one more then unto another, the wind bloweth where it listeth, John 3. 8. he calls when and whom he will: Let them 2come in that my house may be full: none shall come, no more, no less then I have chosen.
Fourthly, the Spirit is free, which appeares by the paucitie of them he choses, he is at libertie, 1he might have saved more, but this shows his freedome, he is not tyed to one more then unto another, the winde bloweth where it listeth, Iohn 3. 8. hee calles when and whom he will: Let them 2come in that my house may bee full: none shall come, no more, no lesse then I have chosen.
Fifthly, the Spirit is a free gift, which appears ⟨p. 170⟩1by the prosecution of his decree, both of Election and Reprobation; nothing more free then the Spirit is; he might, as I said, have chosen Esau and not Jacob; for there cannot a reason be given, wherefore he should choose the one, and not the other, he will choose the wife and not the husband, he will choose the husband and not the wife, he will choose the child and not the father, and he will choose the father and not the child: again, he will choose this man and that woman, and not another man, or another woman; and what is the reason of it, surely there can be no reason given of it, but because the Spirit is free to choose and choose not: thus briefly I have showed you that the Spirit is a free gift.