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Sermons preached before his MajestySermons preached before his Maiestie
Sermons preached before his Majesty; and upon other special occasions viz. 1 The pillar and ground of truth. 2 The new life. 3 A sensible demonstration of the Deity. 4 Exact walking. 5 Samuel's support of sorrowful sinners. By the late faithful and worthy minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston Dr. in Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolns Inn.Sermons preached before his Maiestie; and vpon other speciall occasions viz. 1 The pillar and ground of truth. 2 The new life. 3 A sensible demonstration of the Deity. 4 Exact walking. 5 Samuels support of sorrowfull sinners. By the late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston Dr. in Diuinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Maiesty, master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne.
London: printed by Eliot's Court Press and R. Young for Leonard Greene of Cambridge, 1630
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And so I have showed you that every man by nature is dead in trespasses and sins, and how you shall know it, ⟨p. 41⟩and that if we continue in that condition, and are not partakers of the first resurrection, we shall never partake of the second resurrection.
And so I haue shewed you that every man by nature is dead in trespasses and sinnes, and how you shall know it, ⟨p. 41⟩and that if wee continue in that condition, and are not partakers of the first resurrection, wee shall never partake of the second resurrection.
Now we come to the second, namely, that there is a life that is contrary to this death; & that you may understand what it is, you must know that every man by nature is in a dead sleep, and therefore he sees not this death, nor feels it, nor regards it; for as a dead man feels not that he is dead, so he that wants this spiritual life, he is not sensible of it; for the soul in the worse condition it is, the less it feels it, though it be not so with the body.
Now we come to the second, namely, that there is a life that is contrary to this death; & that you may understand what it is, you must know that every man by nature is in a dead sleep, and therfore he sees not this death, nor feels it, nor regards it; for as a dead man feeles not that he is dead, so hee that wants this spirituall life, he is not sensible of it; for the soule in the worse condition it is, the lesse it feeles it, though it be not so with the bodie.
And therefore the first thing that must be done, to bring a man out of this miserable condition of death, is to waken him, to open his eyes, to see that he is a child of wrath, and to see what extreme need he stands in of Jesus Christ, and to seek and to long after him; as a condemned man longs after his pardon, and as he that was pursued by the avenger of blood, in the old law came to the city of refuge, for safety and for shelter: I say, after that manner we must first be awakened. This you shall see, Eph, 5. Awake thou that sleepest and stand up from the dead. That wakening therefore is the first work. And so