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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.
To this I answer, that mens Judgement is contrary to the wisdom of God in this thing; God 1knows better how, and when, and where to take offenders then men can: therefore though God doth suspend execution awhile; yet it is not because they shall escape unpunished, but for these reasons.
To this I answer, that mens Iudgement is contrary to the wisedome of God in this thing; God 1knowes better how, and when, and where to take offenders then men can: therefore though God doth suspend execution awhile; yet it is not because they shall escape unpunished, but for these reasons.
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The first reason is this, he suspends the execution 1of punishment for a time, because the time of punishment is not as yet come. You know the ⟨p. 265⟩Crown is not won till the race be run out to the end, so in this the full time is not come; sin is not ripe enough, but when it is full ripe, then he will lance them, and this was the cause that the Lord did not punish the Amorites, because their sins was not full: it was not come unto the full 2pitch, sin is growing all the time of a mans life: it is like fruit, it is sooner ripe in some then in others, and that is the reason that some go a long time in sin, and yet are not punished; when others are taken in the very fact: there is a bound and stint set unto every mans sin, thither he shall go, and no further: and therefore the Apostle saith,