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 second motive, to move you to forsake sin, is this, because if you sin, God will beat ¹you: though election be sure, yet you shall not escape correction, which shall be more bitter unto you, then the sweetest sin, Heb. 12. 6. He scourgeth every son whom he receiveth: if thou be ²Gods son, thou must make account to feel Gods rod. The Lord correcteth his children, when they sin, for these two reasons.

The second motive, to move you to forsake sinne, is this, because if you sinne, God will beate ¹you: though election be sure, yet you shall not escape correction, which shall be more bitter unto you, then the sweetest sinne, Heb. 12. 6. Hee scourgeth every sonne whom hee receiveth: if thou bee ²Gods sonne, thou must make account to feele Gods rod. The Lord correcteth his children, when they sinne, for these two reasons.

1. 12. Motive.
2. 2Heb. 12. 6.

The first reason is, because sin is sin with God, in whom soever it is, and he will be sure to ¹scourge him in whom it is; if thou run out he will fetch thee in, with his crook; and the sweeter the sin was, the bitterer will the scourging be.