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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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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⟩thinks he stands in need of nothing, but when a man is brought to see hell, he will cry for Christ and grace, then he will prize things according to their worth, then he will see such excellencies in Christ, that he never saw in any thing else; such an infiniteness of purity and holiness, such abundance of sanctification and redemption, such joy, such glory, and such pleasure, such love, such content, as is not in any thing else; now he will deny the world, profit, or pleasure, or any thing else, and seek, depend, and trust wholly in Christ.
Fourthly, to receive the Gospell, 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 looke still unto the preciousnesse of Christ, because he will not have his minde exercised about vaine and foolish things, and this no man will doe, till he be humbled; no man will see his need till he be humbled, hee feares nothing, he ⟨p. 206⟩thinks he stands in need of nothing, but when a man is brought to see hell, hee will cry for Christ and grace, then hee will prize things according to their worth, then he will see such excellencies in Christ, that he never saw in any thing else; such an infinitenesse of puritie and holinesse, such aboundance of sanctification and redemption, such joy, such glory, and such pleasure, such love, such content, as is not in any thing else; now he will deny the world, profit, or pleasure, or any thing else, and seeke, depend, and trust wholly in Christ.