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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
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Secondly, because we have the Spirit of God ruling in us, and therefore we walk after the Spirit, and not after the flesh: now if we lye in any known sin, we have not the Spirit, and therefore are not in the state of grace: if any man have not the Spirit of grace, he is not the Son of God: now if he walk after the flesh, he hath not the Spirit, for the Spirit gives him ability to strive against all sins.
Secondly, because wee have the Spirit of God ruling in us, and therefore we walk after the Spirit, and not after the flesh: now if we lye in any known sinne, we have not the Spirit, and therefore are not in the state of grace: if any man have not the Spirit of grace, he is not the Sonne of God: now if he walk after the flesh, hee hath not the Spirit, for the Spirit gives him ability to strive against all sinnes.
Thirdly, he is borne of God: now, he that is born of God, sinneth not, that is, sin ruleth not over him: for a man is said to sin that favours wickedness, and setteth his heart to sin: he sinneth not, because he is like God, as a son is like his father; and therefore a wicked man is like the devil, because he is his Father, and his wickedness is in him, and therefore the devil is called the father of the wicked: and so every regenerate man hath all the righteousness of Christ, though not in the same degree; he hath perfect holiness of parts, though not of degrees: now then he hath no member of Satan in him, that is, no known sin which he loveth.
Thirdly, he is borne of God: now, he that is born of God, sinneth not, that is, sinne ruleth not over him: for a man is said to sinne that favours wickednesse, and setteth his heart to sinne: hee sinneth not, because he is like God, as a sonne is like his father; and therefore a wicked man is like the devill, because he is his Father, and his wickednesse is in him, and therefore the devill is called the father of the wicked: and so every regenerate man hath all the righteousnesse of Christ, though not in the same degree; he hath perfect holinesse of parts, though not of degrees: now then he hath no member of Satan in him, that is, no knowne sinne which hee loveth.