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 second motive is this, because whatsoever profession a man makes in religion, it is nothing ¹worth, till a man be humble, for what is the reason, ⟨p. 239⟩that men do not hold out in their profession but fall away and loose their first love, but because they were not throughly humbled: for pride of heart smothereth that form of seeming grace at last, that the corruption and hollow heartednesse that was in them is made apparent unto all: now that your profession is nothing worth, without humiliation, till you be humble is clear by these reasons.

The second motive is this, because whatsoever profession a man makes in religion, it is nothing ¹worth, till a man be humble, for what is the reason, ⟨p. 239⟩that men doe not hold out in their profession but fall away and loose their first love, but because they were not throughly humbled: for pride of heart smothereth that forme of seeming grace at last, that the corruption and hollow heartednesse that was in them is made apparent unto all: now that your profession is nothing worth, without humiliation, till you be humble is cleere by these reasons.

1. 12. Motive.

The first reason is this, except you be truly humbled, you will wither: you will not hold out ¹in your profession, this was the quality of the first ground, the plough had not gone deep enough: they were not throughly humbled, there was seed sown, an open profession of Christ, but it lasted not, the house was builded, but the foundation was not deep enough, that which should have kept the house from falling, was wanting, and that made it to fall; so it is with men, because they want this humiliation: therefore their profession and they do not continue, but part willingly, one from another: they will do somethings, but not all things, and they will forgo somethings, but not all things: and therefore our Saviour saith,