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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.
To this I answer, that this pretence of yours aggravates 1your sin the more, for the more inclination that there is in your nature unto any particular sin, the greater is the sin; for inclination with consent, is more odious unto God then a violent lust not consented unto, which may sometimes break out in a regenerate man without full consent: the more inclination, the more cause of ⟨p. 223⟩humiliation; this did David, he adds unto his sins his inclination to sin, to aggravate them the more, and to humble him the more, as if the inclination gave a greater stroke upon his conscience, then the action it self, as in Psal. 51. I was borne in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me, that 2is, that which makes my sin the more heinous and offensive unto God, is this, because it proceeds from a natural inclination of my corrupt nature, it was borne with him, and it grew up with him, and this was that that troubled him, and thus it is with every regenerate man.
To this I answer, that this pretence of yours aggravates 1your sinne the more, for the more inclination that there is in your nature unto any particular sinne, the greater is the sinne; for inclination with consent, is more odious unto God then a violent lust not consented unto, which may sometimes breake out in a regenerate man without full consent: the more inclination, the more cause of ⟨p. 223⟩humiliation; this did David, hee adds unto his sins his inclination to sinne, to aggrauate them the more, and to humble him the more, as if the inclination gaue a greater strok upon his conscience, then the action it selfe, as in Psal. 51. I was borne in iniquity, and in sinne did my mother conceiue me, that 2is, that which makes my sin the more heynous and offensiue unto God, is this, because it proceeds from a naturall inclination of my corrupt nature, it was borne with him, and it grew up with him, and this was that that troubled him, and thus it is with every regenerate man.