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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.
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.
We are grafted as a graft into Christ, and all the old sap is taken away, and we have new sap, and bring forth new fruit, and have no other, because we grow in another tree, and we live to God: yet we may commit sin, though we allow not our selves in it; for they that are Christs, have crucified the flesh with the affections and lasts thereof: if therefore there be any lust reigning in us, we are not in Christ. Again, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, and therefore he doth not wallow in his old sins: so saith God, I will give you a new heart; and, all things are become new; and, old things are done away: therefore we cannot live in any known sin. Again, whosoever is in Christ, hath received of his fullness, and grace for grace; in him we are able to do all things: and therefore if we cannot strive against old sins, ⟨p. 4⟩we are not in Christ.
We are grafted as a graft into Christ, and all the old sap is taken away, and wee have new sap, and bring forth new fruit, and have no other, because we grow in another tree, and we live to God: yet we may commit sinne, though wee allow not our selves in it; for they that are Christs, have crucified the flesh with the affections and lasts thereof: if therefore there be any lust reigning in us, we are not in Christ. Againe, if any man be in Christ, hee is a new creature, and therfore he doth not wallow in his old sins: so saith God, I will give you a new heart; and, all things are become new; and, old things are done away: therefore wee cannot lve in any knowne sinne. Againe, whosoever is in Christ, hath received of his fulnesse, and grace for grace; in him we are able to doe all things: and therefore if we cannot strive against old sinnes,