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 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 ⟨p. 236⟩sins forgiven, there will be great love, as the woman in the Gospel, she loved much: that is, she had many sins forgiven her, therefore she expressed much humiliation and love unto Christ. Again, let every man labour to feel their sins the more, that they may love Christ the more; for that which the affections are most affected with, that the understanding apprehends most, and then the bent of the will follows, and a man may, if he will, come unto this to see sin in himself, in such a manner as to humble him, and make him to love God the more. As a man that hath a desire to see the Prince in a multitude, he will ever fasten his eye unto him: so if a man would but fasten his understanding and mind upon sin, he would at last see it to humble him, and this did David in the sin of Uriah he brought his sin unto this, that it was ever before him, no sin humbled him as this did: And thus much for the means of getting humiliation.

The third is this, you must proportion your ¹humiliation according unto your sinnes; if your sinnes have beene great sinnes, then your humiliation must be a deepe humiliation: this wee see in Manasses, as his sinne was exceeding great, so his humiliation was exceeding great: it wrought in him a great measure of humiliation, and so Peters sinne was great, and his humiliation was great, for as the sinne is greater or lesser, so the humiliation should be greater or lesser, because the greater the sinnes are, the greater shall bee the judgement for them: and therefore when you can passe over your sinnes, as little sinnes, it is a signe that you are not humbled, for if you were, you would then otherwise conceive of sinne: now where there is great