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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.
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.
First, because he that lies in any known sin, hath another for his Lord and God, and so is an Idolater, and so cannot be regenerate, for he yieldeth to the same still; if it commands, he obeyeth; God commanding him, he neglecteth it, and therefore maketh it his God.
First, because hee that lyes in any knowne sinne, hath another for his Lord and God, and so is an Idolater, and so cannot be regenerate, for hee yeeldeth to the same still; if it commands, hee obeyeth; God commanding him, hee neglecteth it, and therefore maketh it his God.
Secondly, because he that lieth in any known sin, will be unconstant in the serving of God: now God rejecteth such an one; for though the temptation to that sin being removed, he serve God; yet that sin setting upon him, he forsakes Gods service, and obeyeth it, and when soever occasion is offered, he turneth to obey it: now such unconstancie God hateth. As among men a flower though it be more beautiful than a pearl, yet it is not regarded so much, because it is fading; and a ship may sail safe a great while, but yet falling upon a rock maketh shipwreck: so a man may make shipwreck of faith and a good conscience; and such a one cannot be in the state of grace.