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…

I answer, yea; you must forsake all these things: if you will not, you shall never have him; this was ¹the fault of the second ground, there was both a receiving, and a rejoicing in Christ, and this was a good property, but yet there was not joy enough; because there was not humiliation enough, the plough had not gone deep enough, and therefore it was that they continued not, some things he would do, but not all things for Christ, but when the heart is humbled, that is, when the plough hath gone deep enough in humbling a man; then he will and not till then, make Christ his chiefest joy.

I answer, yea; you must forsake all these things: if you will not, you shall never have him; this was ¹the fault of the second ground, there was both a receiving, and a rejoycing in Christ, and this was a good propertie, but yet there was not joy enough; because there was not humiliation enough, the plow had not gone deepe enough, and therefore it was that they continued not, some things he would doe, but not all things for Christ, but when the heart is humbled, that is, when the plow hath gone deepe enough in humbling a man; then hee will and not till then, make Christ his chiefest joy.

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Fourthly, to receive the Gospel, is to trust in Christ wholly, to depend upon him both for ¹grace and salvation, and every thing else that is good: he will labour to know the length, and the height, the depth, and the breadth of the riches of Christ, he will look still unto the preciousness of Christ, because he will not have his mind exercised about vain and foolish things, and this no man will do, till he be humbled; no man will see his need till he be humbled, he fears nothing, he ⟨p. 206⟩