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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, if you would be fit to be humble, 1consider another thing, which is the punishment of sin, if you continue in sin, you shall be damned, deprived of glory: you were once good, consider now, wherein your happiness consists, consider that you have an immortal soul, and that you must be called to an account; the serious considerations of these things, will make you to be ⟨p. 212⟩humble: Nebuchadnezzar when he is brought to be like a beast, then he confesseth that the Lord is God, and humbles himself, even so should we. Again, do but consider that all things are in the hands of God, and that every one of you in particular are; and that he is able presently to dispose of you, as he will. Again, consider that God is always every where, that he sees all things, and that he will judge all men, and that a day of judgement, a day of departure to judgement is appointed unto all: consider also the severity of the Judge, the sentence that he will pronounce the punishment that he will inflict; the eternity of the time; I say, if men would but consider these things wishly, they would not go on in sin, as they do: but the want of consideration of these things keeps men from Christ. For if the adulterer would but consider what the Scripture saith: that no adulterer shall be saved, or if the covetous man, or drunkard, &c. that wholly devotes themselves unto evil would but consider that in 1 Cor. 26. 9. that none of these should inherit the Kingdom of God, they would not go on in sin as they do. Again, if they did but consider that all sin ends in pain, that every act sin wounds the soul, it would surely make them humble, this is that which the Lord complains of in Deut. 32. to 29. verse: O that my people were wise, that they 3would but consider with themselves, viz. their sins, their afflictions, my love in their deliverances; that is, O that they would but look back ⟨p. 213⟩