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…

Therefore you must take ⟨p. 235⟩pains with your hearts, and set sin still before you, Davids sin was ever before him, and Paul was ever humble in remembering his sins: therefore let this humiliation and godly sorrow be in you, not like a land flood, but like a spring; this sorrow must still be running and springing and flowing or else you will not remain humble: I confess, it is true that they that have received the spirit, have not the spirit of bondage to fear, that is, to sorrow hopeless, but yet they have received such a spirit that keeps them still in awe, that keeps them still in this sorrow, that keeps them still in fear; but yet the evil that is in the sorrow and fear is taken away, because of a mixture of spiritual joy, hope, and confidence, that they have wrought in them by the spirit.

Therefore you must take ⟨p. 235⟩paines with your hearts, and set sinne still before you, Davids sinne was ever before him, and Paul was ever humble in remembring his sinnes: therefore let this humiliation and godly sorrow bee in you, not like a land flood, but like a spring; this sorrow must still be running and springing and flowing or else you will not remaine humble: I confesse, it is true that they that have received the spirit, have not the spirit of bondage to feare, that is, to sorrow hopelesse, but yet they have received such a spirit that keepes them still in awe, that keepes them still in this sorrow, that keepes them still in feare; but yet the evill that is in the sorrow and feare is taken away, because of a mixture of spirituall joy, hope, and confidence, that they have wrought in them by the spirit.

The third is this, you must proportion your ¹humiliation according unto your sins; if your sins have been great sins, then your humiliation must be a deep humiliation: this we see in Manasseh, as his sin was exceeding great, so his humiliation was exceeding great: it wrought in him a great measure of humiliation, and so Peters sin was great, and his humiliation was great, for as the sin is greater or lesser, so the humiliation should be greater or lesser, because the greater the sins are, the greater shall be the judgement for them: and therefore when you can pass over your sins, as little sins, it is a sign that you are not humbled, for if you were, you would then otherwise conceive of sin: now where there is great