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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 third reason, why God doth patiently bear with offenders, is this, He doth it for the good of some 1that are yet to be called, and therefore you know what the Lord said unto the husbandman in the Gospel, when he would have plucked up the tares, let them alone, saith he, until the harvest: yet howsoever this comparison doth not always hold ⟨p. 267⟩true, for he did not forbear the plucking of them up, expecting any change, but only least in plucking up them, he should hurt the good seed; for tares will never be wheat, so they that are reprobated, will never convert: yet it holds good in this, he lets tares grow, that is, he bears patiently with wicked men, even with those that as yet seem to be so, because as yet they have not expressed the fruits of their conversion; and therefore for this reason doth God forbear long to punish the wicked, lest he should destroy the seed of the righteous.
The third reason, why God doth patiently beare with offenders, is this, He doth it for the good of some 1that are yet to be called, and therfore you know what the Lord said unto the husbandman in the Gospell, when he would have pluckt up the tares, let them alone, saith hee, untill the harvest: yet howsoever this comparison doth not alwayes hold ⟨p. 267⟩true, for he did not forbeare the plucking of them up, expecting any change, but only least in plucking up them, hee should hurt the good seed; for tares will never be wheate, so they that are reprobated, will never convert: yet it holds good in this, hee lets tares grow, that is, he beares patiently with wicked men, even with those that as yet seeme to be so, because as yet they have not exprest the fruits of their conversion; and therefore for this reason doth God forbeare long to punish the wicked, lest hee should destroy the seed of the righteous.
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