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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.
III. Reason. The third reason is, because except a man have a broken heart, he will not be constant 1with Christ, he will serve him but by halves and fits, and not constantly, now and then, as passion rules him; but when a man is truly humbled, he will keep close unto Christ: now a man that is unstable, God doth not esteem of as a friend, he doth not esteem him as a friend that is unstable, because he knows not how to depend upon him, he stands now with him, but whether he will when he shall need, whether he will hold close to him or no he knows not, and therefore the Apostle saith, that the unstable heart shall receive nothing of God, James 1. 7, 8. God will not accept 2of any thing that he doth, thus you see all is lost labour, till you be humbled, men are unwilling to loose their labour in any thing, but much more in this, if they had hearts to believe it.
III. Reason. The third reason is, because except a man have a broken heart, he will not be constant 1with Christ, he will serve him but by halves and fits, and not constantly, now and then, as passion rules him; but when a man is truly humbled, hee will keepe close unto Christ: now a man that is unstable, God doth not esteeme of as a friend, he doth not esteem him as a friend that is unstable, because he knowes not how to depend upon him, hee stands now with him, but whether he will when he shall need, whether he will hold close to him or no he knowes not, and therefore the Apostle saith, that the unstable heart shall receive nothing of God, Iames 1. 7, 8. God will not accept 2of any thing that he doth, thus you see all is lost labour, till you be humbled, men are unwilling to loose their labour in any thing, but much more in this, if they had hearts to beleeve it.
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