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, This should teach us daily to renew our repentance for our sins; for although it may ¹be our sins be remitted, yet unless we do daily by repentance cleanse our hearts, God at the length will bring us to shame; and as Josephs brethren, who because they did not repent them of their sin against their brother, were many years after grieved and troubled for the same. Therefore as you love your names, by daily repentance make up the breaches of your heart and life; for thus did the Prophet David. Who would ever in the least manner have imagined that he, after his great sins of murder and adultery, would have recovered his name; yet because that he unfeignedly, even from the bottom of his heart repented, behold at the last he recovers again his name, and in the end dieth both full of riches and honours. So likewise ⟨p. 7⟩Job, though he was in his life time very impatient yet because that he repented him of it truly; afterward he is honoured for his patience; and hence is it that Saint James saith, Remember the patience of Job. ²A good name cannot but must follow grace and virtue, no less then a sweet smell will needs follow flowers and sweet ointments. If then thou hast committed any sin either in secret or openly, wilt thou have thy good name recovered before thou dye? be sure to make thy heart sure by repentance.

Secondly, This should teach us daily to renew our repentance for our sinnes; for although it may ¹be our sinnes be remitted, yet unlesse we doe daily by repentance cleanse our hearts, God at the length will bring us to shame; and as Iosephs brethren, who because they did not repent them of their sinne against their brother, were many yeeres after grieved and troubled for the same. Therefore as you love your names, by daily repentance make up the breaches of your heart and life; for thus did the Prophet David. Who would ever in the least manner have immagined that he, after his great sinnes of murder and adulterie, would have recovered his name; yet because that he unfeinedly, even from the bottome of his heart repented, behold at the last he recovers againe his name, and in the end dieth both full of riches and honours. So likewise