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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
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Thirdly, you shall know it by the success, and 1event of it, it will turn the heart unto Christ, it will make the heart stand more firm in grace, it will turn the whole frame of the soul unto God ⟨p. 199⟩like the Lodestone, that will not rest till it hath touched the Iron; or as the needle touched, will not stand till it touch the North-pole: So it is with this godly sorrow, when a man hath received but a touch of the spirit, he will never rest till he hath touched Christ: till he be at peace with him, nothing will satisfy him till Christ come into the Soul, till Christ be his: nothing will make him to remove that confidence, and trust, that he hath in Christ, all things shall go for Christ. But the worldly sorrow hath another success: namely, to fly faster away from God; as I have showed in Judas and Cain. And thus much for this question.
Thirdly, you shall know it by the successe, and 1event of it, it will turne the heart unto Christ, it will make the heart stand more firme in grace, it will turne the whole frame of the soule unto God ⟨p. 199⟩like the Loadstone, that will not rest till it hath toucht the Iron; or as the needle touched, will not stand till it touch the North-pole: So it is with this godly sorrow, when a man hath received but a touch of the spirit, he will never rest till he hath toucht Christ: till he be at peace with him, nothing will satisfie him till Christ come into the Soule, till Christ be his: nothing will make him to remove that confidence, and trust, that hee hath in Christ, all things shall goe for Christ. But the worldly sorrow hath another successe: namely, to flye faster away from God; as I have showed in Iudas and Caine. And thus much for this question.
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