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…

His second deceit is this; he tells us, that though we sin, yet we may escape and go to heaven notwithstanding.¹

His second deceipt is this; he tels us, that though we sinne, yet we may escape and goe to heaven notwithstanding.¹

1. 12. Deceit.

I answer: Do but remember what God saith to this temptation, Deut. 29. 19. When he shall hear ¹the words of this curse, if he shall bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, although I walk according to the stubbornness of mine own heart, quasi dixit, though I commit such and such sins, yet notwithstanding I shall go to heaven; but mark what God saith, I will not be merciful unto that man, but my wrath and my jealousy shall smoke against him, every curse that is written in this book shall light upon him, and his name shall be ro•ted out from under heaven. ⟨p. 15⟩So Esd. 28. 12. I will disannul your covenant, and your agreement with hell shall not stand, quasi dixit, when a man thinks he shall escape hell, and go to heaven, though he commit sin, he doth, as it were, make a covenant with hell, but God saith that covenant shall not stand. So Esd. 44. 11. Destruction shall come suddenly on them, and they shall not know the morning thereof. Indeed, perhaps they say, we will repent in the mean time; but I wish them seriously to consider the fore-named places.

I answer: Doe but remember what God saith to this temptation,