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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.
Fifthly, because he is wholly changed and translated to another man: which is expressed two ways. 1. The whole drift of his mind is changed. As suppose the earth were made free, the whole bent of it were to go upward; so a man is wholly bent ⟨p. 5⟩towards heaven, or else his heart is not changed: and if so, he can lye in no known sin. 2. He is changed in his taste. S. Paul saith, They that are in Christ, savour not the things of the flesh, but of the spirit: every sin is bitter to the regenerate man; if it be not, then he savoureth the things of the flesh. To this is that agreeable, Keep this feast with unleavened bread, and not with old leaven of maliciousness: we must be unleavened bread to Christ, we must give no allowance to sin.
Fifthly, because he is wholly changed and translated to another man: which is exprest two wayes. 1. The whole drift of his minde is changed. As suppose the earth were made free, the whole bent of it were to goe upward; so a man is wholly bent ⟨p. 5⟩towards heaven, or else his heart is not changed: and if so, he can lye in no knowne sinne. 2. He is changed in his taste. S. Paul saith, They that are in Christ, savour not the things of the flesh, but of the spirit: every sinne is bitter to the regenerate man; if it be not, then he savoureth the things of the flesh. To this is that agreeable, Keepe this feast with unleavened bread, and not with old leaven of maliciousnesse: we must be unleavened bread to Christ, we must give no allowance to sinne.
Sixthly, because they know God. The Lord saith by his Prophet, I will write my law in their hearts, and they shall know me: so that with this writing the law in their hearts, they cannot but know sin; for they are changed in their minds before they can know God: hence I infer that he that knows God, will not change from the immutable God to the mutable creature; and they that do it, do it because they know not God.