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 fifth Motive to move you to hate sin, ¹is, because sin will bring upon you all manner of miseries: all the miseries and afflictions that we taste of here, are measured out to us for sins committed; and on the contrary, all the comforts, peace of conscience, prosperity, and inward joy, are all continued to us according unto the pureness of our hearts and ways: as in Psal. 18. 23. ²24. I was also upright, saith David, before him, and I ⟨p. 279⟩kept my self from mine iniquity, therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my uprightness: according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyes sight: and then in the 25, & 26. verses, both parts are clearly expressed, that he will walk more frowardly with you, as you walk more frowardly with him: and again, as you walk more purely with him, so he will show himself more gracious and loving unto you: as for example, go through all the Judges of Israel, and you shall see this true; look to Gideon, one sin was the destruction of him and his house: look to Sampson, that sin of fornication, brought upon him shame, imprisonment, and death.

The fifth Motive to moove you to hate sinne, ¹is, because sinne will bring upon you all manner of miseries: all the miseries and afflictions that wee taste of here, are measured out to us for sinnes committed; and on the contrary, all the comforts, peace of conscience, prosperitie, and inward joy, are all continued to us according unto the purenesse of our hearts and wayes: as in Psal. 18. 23. ²24. I was also upright, saith David, before him, and I ⟨p. 279⟩