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 point is this, That sin is in it self full of grief and bitterness, and men shall find it so, sooner or latter. ¹I gather it thus, Paul was affrighted with his sin and trembled at it, it appeared unto him in an ugly shape; hence he cries out, Lord what wilt thou have me to do? that is, I am in a straight, I cannot tell how to be freed from sin, and I will do any thing, or suffer any thing for thee so I may be freed from sin: now I see sin with grief to be a bitter thing: And so Adam saw the bitterness of sin when he hid himself from God in the Garden; and so David saw the bitterness of sin when he made the 51. Psal. How earnestly prays he to be freed from it, to have the sting of it taken away, to feel the favour of God again, which then he felt not? Now that sin is thus, we will prove it unto you.

The point is this, That sin is in it self full of griefe and bitternesse, and men shall finde it so, sooner or latter. ¹I gather it thus, Paul was affrighted with his sinne and trembled at it, it appeared unto him in an ugly shape; hence he cryes out, Lord what wilt thou have me to doe? that is, I am in a straight, I cannot tell how to be freed from sinne, and I will doe any thing, or suffer any thing for thee so I may be freed from sinne: now I see sinne with griefe to be a bitter thing: And so Adam saw the bitternesse of sinne when hee hid himselfe from God in the Garden; and so Dauid saw the bitternesse of sinne when he made the 51. Psal. How earnestly prayes hee to be freed from it, to haue the sting of it taken away, to feele the favour of God againe, which then he felt not? Now that sinne is thus, we will prove it unto you.

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First, I say, that sin is full of grief and bitterness, ⟨p. 261⟩