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 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 2 Sam. 24. 10. I ²have done very foolishly: and, to express this, that speech of Solomon is most excellent, Eccles. 7. 15. I set my self to know the wickedness of folly, and ³the foolishness of madness; as if he could not sufficiently, or easily express it, that sin will make a man to see, that there is nothing but folly in sin at last: and in 1 Tim. 6. 9. sin is called, ⁴foolishness: hence then, it is extreme folly to ⟨p. 288⟩commit the least sin; it is good to oppose this conclusion against all the reasons of Satan, That we will not sin, because it will be our folly: and if we cannot answer in particulars, let us answer him in the general, that we will not yield to any. It may be, he will tell you, that you shall gain some profit, or pleasure, or sweetness, or commodity by sinning: but if you can bring your hearts, not to believe this, you will never do it; and say, the Scripture tells us, that it is extreme folly to do so, and we shall find it to be so, therefore we will not: Let this move you to hare sin.

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