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…

To this I answer, consider that there is a turbulent kind of sorrow, which is not this sorrow ¹which is required for the receiving of Christ: I call that a turbulent sorrow which ends in despair, that the children of wrath are possest withal, such as Judas, and Cain, and Ahithophel; but this is not the sorrow, that I would have to be in you, but there is another kind of sorrow, which is a sad and deep apprehension of sin, when a man sees sin in such a hue, with such a wad, so contrary unto God, so contrary unto his good, that hereupon he so sorroweth for sin, that he seeks unto Christ, both as a father to help, and a Physician to heal: ⟨p. 243⟩yet we say not, that this alone is proper unto the godly, for many times they have both; sometimes the best of Gods children have horrors of conscience, and are affrighted with hell, so that for the present, they apprehend not Christ, but think themselves to be vessels of wrath: again many have them not, and yet are truly humbled, and therefore we may say of these, as the father said unto his two sons in the Gospel: those that have this first kind of sorrow, say in their passion, they will do thus and thus, and yet will not; again, others that have it not, though for the present, they will not do thus and thus, that is, though they be not humble as others are, yet they will go and continue with Christ, and do what he commands them.

To this I answer, consider that there is a turbubulent kind of sorrow, which is not this sorrow ¹which is required for the receiving of Christ: I call that a turbulent sorrow which ends in despaire, that the children of wrath are possest withall, such as Iudas, and Cain, and Achitophel; but this is not the sorrow, that I would have to be in you, but there is another kind of sorrow, which is a sad and deepe apprehension of sin, when a man sees sin in such a hue, with such a wadde, so contrary unto God, so contrary unto his good, that hereupon he so sorroweth for sinne, that hee seekes unto Christ, both as a father to helpe, and a Physician to heale: ⟨p. 243⟩yet we say not, that this alone is proper unto the godly, for many times they have both; sometimes the best of Gods children have horrors of conscience, and are affrighted with hell, so that for the present, they apprehend not Christ, but thinke themselves to bee vessels of wrath: againe many have them not, and yet are truly humbled, and therefore we may say of these, as the father said unto his two sonnes in the Gospell: those that have this first kinde of sorrow, say in their passion, they will doe thus and thus, and yet will not; againe, others that have it not, though for the present, they will not doe thus and thus, that is, though they be not humble as others are, yet they will goe and continue with Christ, and doe what he commands them.