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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 fourth Reason, Why God suffereth long, is this, that he may try the heart, how it will carry it 1self towards him; not that he knows not the heart before, but that the heart may now know, that the Lord is patient, when he shall consider how patiently God hath dealt with him, and how long he hath borne with him; for this makes men more inexcusable before God, and more ashamed of themselves, when they shall call to mind, what time, what opportunity, what occasion they have had to good, how they might have stored themselves with grace, and made their peace with him, and then how many sins they have committed time after time, and then what checks of conscience after, to reclaim them; I say, if men did but consider this, they could not but say, that God is patient.
The fourth Reason, Why God suffereth long, is this, that he may try the heart, how it will carry it 1selfe towards him; not that hee knowes not the heart before, but that the heart may now know, that the Lord is patient, when hee shall consider how patiently God hath dealt with him, and how long he hath borne with him; for this makes men more inexcusable before God, and more ashamed of themselves, when they shall call to minde, what time, what opportunitie, what occasion they have had to good, how they might have stored themselves with grace, and made their peace with him, and then how many sinnes they have committed time after time, and then what checks of conscience after, to reclaime them; I say, if men did but consider this, they could not but say, that God is patient.
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The fifth Reason, is this, although they be not 1afflicted as other men are, yet it is not, because ⟨p. 268⟩