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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.
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.
Secondly the flesh; The just walketh in his integrity. To this may be added, that blessings are everywhere annexed to the keeping of the commandments; ⟨p. 6⟩Blessed are they that have respect unto thy commandments: If you lean to the right band, or to the left, &c, Again, If you keep the whole law, and offend in anyone, you are guilty of the whole law. But, besides these Scriptures, there be other reasons to prove that the regenerate man cannot lye in any known sin.
Secondly the flesh; The just walketh in his integrity. To this may be added, that blessings are everywhere annexed to the keeping of the commandements; ⟨p. 6⟩Blessed are they that have respect unto thy commandements: If you leane to the right band, or to the left, &c, Againe, If you keepe the whole law, and offend in anyone, you are guilty of the whole law. But, besides these Scriptures, there be other reasons to prove that the regenerate man cannot lye in any knowne sinne.