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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.
Thirdly, consider that as your wages are more, and your talents are more, and your accounts are 1more, so likewise your judgements shall be more, if you be an example either of evil to others, or evil to your self: I say the greater you are in place, the greater should be your care, because the greater is your sin: Inferiors depend upon superiors; consider I pray, if you be eminent in place, what a good example from you will do unto others that are under you; and on the contrary, what evil will follow from being careless and profane: they will mark you for an example to evil: therefore you see that the greater conditions that you are in, the more cause you have to be humble.
Thidly, consider that as your wages are more, and your talents are more, and your accounts are 1more, so likewise your iudgements shall bee more, if you be an example either of euill to others, or evill to your selfe: I say the greater you are in place, the greater should be your care, because the greater is your sinne: Inferiors depend upon superiors; consider I pray, if you bee eminent in place, what a good example from you will doe unto others that are under you; and on the contrary, what evill will follow from being carlesse and prophane: they will marke you for an example to euill: therefore you see that the greater conditions that you are in, the more cause you haue to be humble.
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The sixth means to get humiliation is this, you must be earnest with God to get the spirit; for this 1makes the law effectual: the flesh profiteth nothing, 2it is the spirit that quickeneth; the law and the letter of the law will not work grace in you no more then the flesh will, except the spirit go with it: It is the spirit that always enlighteneth the mind and works a change in the whole man, and puts new habits on the faculties, and objects sit for those habits: and here now appears the difference between the Law and the Gospel; nothing will make a man truly humble without the spirit. If the Lord should speak unto you this day as he spake here to Paul, yet if the spirit did not shine into your hearts, it would not be effectual to