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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.
Thirdly, because he that lieth in any known sin, will, if he had like strong temptations, commit all the sins in the world; as be a man inclined to covetousness or uncleanness, he would commit any other if he were as much inclined to ⟨p. 7⟩any other: now, such an one cannot be in the state of grace.
Thirdly, because hee that lyeth in any knowne sinne, will, if he had like strong temptations, commit all the sinnes in the world; as be a man enclined to covetousnesse or uncleannesse, hee would commit any other if hee were as much enclined to ⟨p. 7⟩any other: now, such an one cannot be in the state of grace.
Fourthly, because if a man have a good heart, no sin can grow there, because it is out of its proper place, and therefore cannot prosper: as plants that grow in India, if they be set here, wither; so every sin in a good heart is out of its proper place, and will not grow, but wither every day more & more: but he that findeth sin growing in his heart, his heart is not regenerate.
Fourthly, because if a man have a good heart, no sinne can grow there, because it is out of its proper place, and therefore cannot prosper: as plants that grow in India, if they be set here, wither; so every sinne in a good heart is out of its proper place, and wil not grow, but wither every day more & more: but he that findeth finne growing in his heart, his heart is not regenerate.
Fifthly, because he must hate the word of God and godly men: for when a man is ready to commit sin, the word is at him to dissuade him, godly men dissuade him; and therefore now if he do it, and they still rebuke him, he cometh to account the word a reproach, and he hates it and good men likewise. Thus Herod is Johns friend a great while, till he tells him of his beloved sin, and then off goes his head: so he hates God, and wishes there were none, because he resolveth to sin, and God reproves him, and so he cannot be in a good estate.