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…

That whosoever will receive Christ, and be ingrafted ¹into him, and receive the Gospel as he ought to do he must be first humbled: I say, it is necessary for the right receiving of Christ, that a Christian be humbled. It is a necessary condition, because no man will receive Christ till then: till he be cast down, Christ will not be prized, grace will not be esteemed; and then he will see a necessity of Christ and holiness. Now that humiliation is of such necessity, we will prove by Scripture, even by those phrases, by which this humiliation is set forth.

That whosoever will receive Christ, and be ingrafted ¹into him, and receive the Gospell as he ought to doe he must be first humbled: I say, it is necessary for the right receiving of Christ, that a Christian bee humbled. It is a necessary condition, because no man will receive Christ till then: till hee bee cast downe, Christ will not bee prized, grace will not be esteemed; and then hee will see a necessity of Christ and holinesse. Now that humiliation is of such necessity, wee will prove by Scripture, even by those phrases, by which this humiliation is set forth.

1. 1Doctrine.

First, it is called a pricking of the heart, Acts 2. 37. And when they heard it, they were pricked in ¹their hearts; they had then broken hearts, they were thoroughly humbled, and when it was thus with them, then they can inquire after Christ, what shall we do to be saved; and on the contrary, that which keeps men from Christ, is the want of sound humiliation, in Ezek. 36. 26