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 fourteenth Motive, to move you to hate sin, is, because you can never have any true content, ¹so long as you love sin and live in it: as for example; Let a man but look back unto former times before he was called, and see whether he ever found so much contentment in any thing, as he doth now, if his heart be perfect towards God, when he walks more exactly with him. Again, whether it hath not been wearisome and restless, to have his heart drawn forth to vanity, and led up and down with divers lusts: This was Davids practice, I remembered my sorrowings in the night, and in the times of old, what joy I was wont to find in thee: every man would live a contented life, and it is wearisome unto nature to live in discontent; now that you may have true content, hate sin.

The fourteenth Motive, to moove you to hate sinne, is, because you can never have any true content, ¹so long as you love sinne and live in it: as for example; Let a man but looke backe unto former times before hee was called, and see whether he ever found so much contentment in any thing, as he doth now, if his heart be perfect towards God, when hee walkes more exactly with him. Againe, whether it hath not beene wearisome and restlesse, to have his heart drawne forth to vanitie, and led up and downe with divers lusts: This was Davids practice, I remembred my sorrowings in the night, and in the times of old, what joy I was wont to finde in thee: every man would live a contented life, and it is wearisome unto nature to live in discontent; now that you may have true content, hate sinne.

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The fifteenth motive, to move you to hate sin, is, because sin will at the last, whether ¹you will or no, make you to confess, and say, that you have done very foolishly; I say, never any man committed sin, but it brought him in the end to say, as David said, in