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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.
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.
Thirdly, it is said we are dead to sin, and alive to God, ver. 11. and therefore we cannot live in sin: for, command a dead body to go about a business, and he cannot, because he is dead.
Thirdly, it is said we are dead to sinne, and alive to God, ver. 11. and therefore we cannot live in sinne: for, command a dead body to goe about a businesse, and he cannot, because he is dead.
Now the reasons of the point be these. The first 1is taken from Christ; we are ingrafted into Christ, and into his death, and into the similitude of his resurrection, verse 5.
Now the reasons of the point be these. The first 1is taken from Christ; wee are ingrafted into Christ, and into his death, and into the similitude of his resurrection, verse 5.
- 1Reas. 1.