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…

the remembrance of particular sins wrought a general ¹change in them, and mightily humbled them: therefore, if you would be humbled, apply particular failings, and exclude none, and God will not exclude thee: you know that which will take a great stain out of a garment, will surely take out a lesser: even so fear not, but if God hath given thee a heart to see some great sin, and the assurance of the pardon of that sin, he will forgive thee all sins: thus much for the third means.

the remembrance of particular sinnes wrought a generall ¹change in them, and mightily humbled them: therefore, if you would be humbled, apply particular failings, and exclude none, and God will not exclude thee: you know that which will take a great staine out of a garment, will surely take out a lesser: even so feare not, but if God hath given thee a heart to see some great sinne, and the assurance of the pardon of that sinne, hee will forgive thee all sinnes: thus much for the third meanes.

1. 1John 21. 15.Iohn 21. 15.

The fourth means, to get humiliation, is this, ¹we must labour to bring things unto a propinquity, that is, let us look upon sin past, as present, and so near at hand: for this is our folly, we look upon sin, great way off, and that is the reason, that sin is so little regarded of us, because we cannot, as we might, see how odious it is: the Philosopher saith, that things a great way off, are as if they were not, they do not hurt us, and this is the cause why men are not humbled: experience proves this, you know death is the terriblest thing in the world, but yet because we look upon it a far off: therefore it is, that it doth not affright us now: to help you to bring things to a propinquity, that you may be humbled, you must observe these two rules.