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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 sixth Motive, to move you to hate sin, is, because sin is a vain thing, it can yield us 1no true comfort or content; and this we may see in the vanity and changeableness of earthly things, when we make them our only joy, how soon are we deprived of them? for indeed, what is our portion, or what can yield us any sound and solid joy and comfort, but God and Christ? and so Job reasoneth in Job 31. 2. what portion shall 2I have with God Almighty? it is no small portion, but a great portion to have Communion with Him, to be sure of Him for a refuge in all troubles, a Counsellor in all duties, a helper in all wants to stand by us, when all else forsake us: he that knoweth the sweet consolations of the spirit, will account sin and the world but a vain thing; I say, no man that knows the sweetness there is in the Communion with God, will loose it for all the pleasures of sin. Job 14. he showeth ⟨p. 281⟩the vanity of earthly things; some conceive the comforts of the Spirit but a vain thing, but this is, because they never tasted of the sweetness of the spirit: there is no man but he hath something that he resteth his heart upon, as the Psalmist saith, Some trust in Princes, some in riches, others in their friends, but it is God that is the strength and prop of every sanctified mans heart, on which every holy man and woman resteth; now take from any man that which is his prop and stay, and his heart sinketh and dyeth in him like a stone: so will the heart of a child of God, when the assurance of the favour of God is taken away by sin: therefore as the favour of God is sweeter then life it self unto him, so the very interruption and suspending of it, is as bitter as death: and therefore in this regard, sin is to be hated.
The sixt Motive, to moove you to hate sinne, is, because sinne is a vaine thing, it can yeeld us 1no true comfort or content; and this we may see in the vanitie and changeablenesse of earthly things, when we make them our onely joy, how soone are wee deprived of them? for indeed, what is our portion, or what can yeeld us any sound and solid joy and comfort, but God and Christ? and so Iob reasoneth in