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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.
3. In regard though it strive against us, yet it never gets the victory: for though it assault us, yet if it get not the victory, it hath no dominion over us: this is proved by three Similitudes which must be explained, viz.
3. In regard though it strive against us, yet it never gets the victory: for though it assault us, yet if it get not the victory, it hath no dominion over us: this is proved by three Similitudes which must be explaned, viz.
First, it was our Master, and we its servants; but ⟨p. 3⟩now we have changed our Master, and are become the servants of righteousness, ver. 18.
First, it was our Master, and we its servants; but ⟨p. 3⟩now wee have changed our Master, and are become the servants of righteousnesse, ver. 18.
Secondly, it is said that we were married to sin, and it had dominion and command over us, as the husband over the wife; but now it is dead, and there is a divorce between us, and now we are married to Christ, and he commands us, and we obey.
Secondly, it is said that we were married to sin, and it had dominion and command over us, as the husband over the wife; but now it is dead, and there is a divorce betweene us, and now wee are married to Christ, and hee commands us, and wee obey.