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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 seventh Motive, to move you to hate 1sin, is, because sin is restless, if you do but 2truly consider the restlessness of the heart, till it be sanctified, it will make you to hate sin: the heart is restless, till it be set in a good frame of grace. Sin is unto the soul, as a disease in unto the body; a man that is bodily sick will never be at rest, till he be well: so a regenerate man is never at rest till sin be healed in him; wickedness is of a restless nature, according unto that measure it is found in any, as the Prophet saith, in Isaiah 57. 20, 21. where he compares the heart of wicked men unto the raging Sea, that still is in 3motion, purging and cleansing it self; so a holy ⟨p. 282⟩man is not at rest, whilst his heart is not cleansed from his sins: let this therefore move you to hate sin, because it is restless.
The seventh Motive, to moove you to hate 1sinne, is, because sinne is restles, if you doe but 2truly consider the restlesnesse of the heart, till it be sanctified, it will make you to hate sinne: the heart is restlesse, till it bee set in a good frame of grace. Sinne is unto the soule, as a disease in unto the body; a man that is bodily sicke will never be at rest, till he be well: so a regenerate man is never at rest till sinne be healed in him; wickednesse is of a restlesse nature, according unto that measure it is found in any, as the Prophet saith, in Isaiah 57. 20, 21. where he compares the heart of wicked men unto the raging Sea, that still is in 3motion, purging and cleansing it selfe; so a holy ⟨p. 282⟩