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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 sixteenth motive, to move you to hate sin, is, because sin will take you away from 1God, and God from you; and therefore that must needs be an evil thing, and worthy to be hated of you, that will deprive you of God; it is the terriblest thing in the world, to have God taken away from a man: that which makes a man to loose any thing that he loves, is hated of him; as for example, a man that loves and respects his credit, he had rather loose any thing then that; it is a great grief unto him, to be disgraced: to a rich man that loves his riches, it is a grief to part with them, and therefore he doth hate a thief: so it is the slaying of the soul to part with God; a holy man had rather part with wife and children, riches, pleasures, and friends, and life it self, then part with God; and therefore it is, that in every regenerate man, there is bred by the spirit a loathing ⟨p. 289⟩of all sin: if you would not then part with God, hate sin; God and Mammon cannot abide together no more then light and darkness.
The sixteenth motive, to move you to hate sinne, is, because sinne will take you away from 1God, and God from you; and therefore that must needs bee an evill thing, and worthy to bee hated of you, that will deprive you of God; it is the terriblest thing in the world, to have God taken away from a man: that which makes a man to loose any thing that he loves, is hated of him; as for example, a man that loves and respects his credit, he had rather loose any thing then that; it is a great griefe unto him, to be disgraced: to a rich man that loves his riches, it is a griefe to part with them, and therefore he doth hate a theife: so it is the slaying of the soule to part with God; a holy man had rather part with wife and children, riches, pleasures, and friends, and life it selfe, then part with God; and therefore it is, that in every regenerate man, there is bred by the spirit a loathing ⟨p. 289⟩of all sinne: if you would not then part with God, hate sinne; God and Mammon cannot abide together no more then light and darkenesse.
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