A09997:471
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.
The fifth means to get humiliation is this, you must labour to remove these excuses, by which 1men labour to keep off this blow of the Gospel, they are loth to be hit, and therefore they labour to shelter and hide themselves, because they would not see themselves in such a case as they are in, lest they should be humbled, which, on the contrary, if they would but let the Gospel have his full force at their consciences, it would work this effect to humble them: But, I say, it is a hard matter to persuade men to see sins as present, and a hard matter to persuade men to be humble, and consequently, ⟨p. 219⟩a difficult thing it is, to make them to bear this blow of the Gospel, and to persuade them, that humiliation is a necessary condition to salvation, and the right receiving of Christ: therefore you must labour to remove the excuses that men make for themselves, before they will be humbled; which excuses, or rather deceits, are these following.
The fifth meanes to get humiliation is this, you must labour to remooue these excuses, by which 1men labour to keepe off this blow of the Gospell, they are loth to be hit, and therfore they labour to shelter and hide themselues, because they would not see themselues in such a case as they are in, lest they should be humbled, which, on the contrary, if they would but let the Gospel haue his full force at their consciences, it wold worke this effect to humble them: But, I say, it is a hard matter to perswade men to see sinnes as present, and a hard matter to perswade men to bee humble, and consequently, ⟨p. 219⟩a difficult thing it is, to make them to beare this blow of the Gospell, and to perswade them, that humiliation is a necessary condition to salvation, and the right receiving of Christ: therefore you must labour to remoove the excuses that men make for themselves, before they will bee humbled; which excuses, or rather deceits, are these following.
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