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…

I answer; yet after, though not now, thou shalt surely feel it, and in that thing that thou lovest ¹most, which of all other, thou wouldest not be crossed in, as David in his Absalom, and Moses in his going into Canaan: for that is Gods manner; if Israel loath Manna, God will make it to come out at their nostrils. And so thou shalt surely feel thy sin, what ever it be, in the end: for as in the misdemeanour of youth, we sow the seeds of after-diseases, ⟨p. 274⟩though not presently felt. So godly men in their runnings out, sow the seeds of after-afflictions, though for a while that harvest appeareth not above ground: see it in David, in Solomon, in Asa, in Uzziah, whether all they smarted not for it in the end; and the longer it is deferred, the more will come together: as those that are sick seldom, are sick to purpose when it cometh, because many humours lye heaped together, and lye insensible a-while, and then break forth at once; so when thou hast heaped a great many of sins together, the judgements of God will break out to purpose against thee, so that thou shalt feel the weight of them all.

I answer; yet after, though not now, thou shalt surely feele it, and in that thing that thou lovest ¹most, which of all other, thou wouldest not bee crost in, as David in his Absolon, and Moses in his going into Canaan: for that is Gods manner; if Israel loath Manna, God will make it to come out at their nostrils. And so thou shalt surely feele thy sinne, what ever it be, in the end: for as in the misdemeanor of youth, we sow the seeds of afterdiseases, ⟨p. 274⟩though not presently felt. So godly men in their runnings out, sow the seeds of after-afflictions, though for a while that harvest appeareth not above ground: see it in David, in Salomon, in Asa, in Vzziah, whether all they smarted not for it in the end; and the longer it is deferred, the more will come together: as those that are sicke seldome, are sicke to purpose when it commeth, because many humours lye heaped together, and lye insensible a-while, and then breake forth at once; so when thou hast heaped a great many of sinnes together, the judgements of God will break out to purpose against thee, so that thou shalt feele the weight of them all.