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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.
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.
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 sinne; for they are changed in their mindes before they can know God: hence I inferre that he that knowes God, will not change from the immutable God to the mutable creature; and they that doe it, doe it because they know not God.
Seventhly, because he hath faith, which will make him not lie in any known sin: for all sins are either of the temptation of the devil, the flesh, or the world: now, faith overcomes all these.
Seventhly, because hee hath faith, which will make him not lie in any knowne sinne: for all sins are either of the temptation of the devill, the flesh, or the world: now, faith overcomes all these.
1. It overcometh the world; This is the victory that overcometh the world, even your faith: but if the world could overcome the regenerate in any temptation, then this were not true that faith overcometh the world; but he shall not be overcome by the glory and riches of the world.
1. It overcommeth the world; This is the victory that overcommeth the world, even your faith: but if the world could overcome the regenerate in any temptation, then this were not true that faith overcommeth the world; but he shall not be overcome by the glory and riches of the world.