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Sun-beams of gospel-light shining clearly from several texts of Scripture, opened and applied. 1.…Sun-beams of gospel-light shining clearly from severall texts of Scripture, opened and applyed. 1.…
Sun-beams of gospel-light shining clearly from several texts of Scripture, opened and applied. 1. A heavenly [sic] treatise of the divine love of Christ. 2. The Christians freedom. 3. The deformed form of a formal profession. 4. Christs fullness, and mans emptiness. By John Preston, doctor in divinity, chaplain in ordinary to King James, Mr. of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher at Lincolns Inn.Sun-beams of gospel-light shining clearly from severall texts of Scripture, opened and applyed. 1. A heavemly [sic] treatise of the devine love of Christ. 2. The Christians freedome. 3. The deformed forme of a formall profession. 4. Christs fulnesse, and mans emptinesse. By John Preston, doctor in divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to King James, Mr. of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher at Lincolnes Inne.
London: printed for John Stafford, 1644
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.
To the Reader of these pious and plain Sermons, Grace and PEACE.
To the Reader of these pious and plaine Sermons, Grace and PEACE.
Christian Reader, it was an old complaint of an Heathen, that the noise of the old Philosophers opinions did hinder their dung-hill gods from hearing their prayers: And it is no very new complaint of a Christian, that the many idle subtleties of the School have so drawn up Divinity to the highest peg of a curious mind, that it hinders the heart from moulding it into Prayers and practice.
CHristian Reader, it was an old complaint of an Heathen, that the noise of the old Philosophers opinions did hinder their dung-hill gods from hearing their prayers: And it is no very new complaint of a Christian, that the many idle subtleties of the Schoole have so drawn up Divinity to the highest pegge of a curious mind, that it hinders the heart from moulding it into Prayers and practice.
This grave and serious Divine, whose living Sermons are here commended to thee when he is dead, saw it with both eyes. Therefore though he was no small master in subtleties, yet all his thoughts were bent to draw them down from the floating brain, to the feeling ⟨image 6⟩heart; that his hearers might be better brought to know and do. As this hath been his course in all his writings before extant; so is it in this, that now comes to thy hands. How might he have hid himself in the thorns of speculation? How high might he have flown in the curious extracts of every word of this Text? But he, that delighted to speak ten words to edification, rather then ten thousand that could not pierce every ordinary brain, contented himself to fill up deep fords to make them passable, and to wade the sweet and shallow streams of the love of the Lord Jesus.