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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.
THE CHRISTIAN FREEDOM, OR THE CHARTER OF THE GOSPEL, SHOWING THE PRIVILEGE AND Prerogative of the Saints, by virtue of the Covenant.
THE CHARISTIAN FREEDOME, OR THE CHARTER OF THE GOSPEL, SHEWING THE PRIVILEDGE AND Prraeogative of the Saints, by vertue of the Covenant.
ROM. 6. 14. For sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
ROM. 6. 14. For sinne shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
These words are brought in thus; the Apostle exhorts them not to sin, but to give their members as instruments unto righteousness: and to move them to this, he tells them that sin was not their Lord now as it was heretofore, and that it shall have no more dominion over them, and therefore he bids them strive against it: ⟨p. 2⟩and then he adds a reason of this, because they were not under the law, but under grace, now Christ hath changed their hearts: for while a man is under the Law, sin hath dominion over him; it tells him what to do, but gives him no power to do it: but you have the grace of sanctification to change your hearts, and enable you to every good word and work, so that you delight in the Law after the inner man, albeit you see another law in your members warring against the Law of your mind, and bringing you into captivity to the law of sin which is in your members, as it is said, Chap. 7. ver. 23.