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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.
The fifth Sign, whereby you may know, whether you be throughly humbled or no, is this, examine 1your obedience unto Christ, if the soul be ⟨p. 256⟩humbled, it will yield general obedience unto God. True humiliation will breed obedience in you: now if you find that you yield no obedience unto God, but you will notwithstanding profane the Sabbath, and be drunk, and game, it is because you were never truly humbled, for if you were, you would yield obedience: humiliation fits the soul for obedience, makes it of a pliable disposition, and that for these reasons.
The fift Signe, whereby you may know, whether you be throughly humbled or no, is this, examine 1your obedience unto Christ, if the soule be ⟨p. 256⟩humbled, it will yeild generall obedience unto God. True humiliation will breed obedience in you: now if you finde that you yeeld no obedience unto God, but you will notwithstanding prophane the Sabbath, and be drunke, and game, it is because you were never truly humbled, for if you were, you would yeeld obedience: humiliation fits the soule for obedience, makes it of a plyable disposition, and that for these reasons.
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The first reason is, because humiliation makes 1a man to see God, in his holiness and power: he that before respected not God, when he comes to this to see the power of God will submit himself: an example of this we have in Belshazzar, that feared the Lord after he was throughly humbled: but when a holy man with the power of God, sees the purity and perfection that is in God, this humbles him more, and that also in regard of his own baseness, and vileness, and hence properly the obedience of a holy man proceeds. Obedience depends upon humiliation. As with men when a man or woman sees the power of a superior, and that he is under his power, then he becomes humble and obedient.