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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.
True, and many therefore not truly regenerated, 1but seeming only so: now many make a fair show under the means, when falling into temptations, they fall away: but if they be not commanded, or think not of it, great faults may stand with true grace; but if they be admonished by their conscience, or others, and told they must not do it, then their estate is not good; for true grace cannot stand with these failings.
True, and many therefore not truly regenerated, 1but seeming only so: now many make a faire show under the meanes, when falling into temptations, they fall away: but if they be not commanded, or think not of it, great faults may stand with true grace; but if they be admonished by their conscience, or others, and told they must not doe it, then their estate is not good; for true grace cannot stand with these failings.
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Now, the signs whereby we may know, whether we live in known sins or not, are these.
Now, the signes whereby we may know, whether we live in knowne sinnes or not, are these.
1. Living in a known sin is of two sorts; 1. Known, when men sell themselves to commit wickedness before the Lord, as Ahab did; when he poureth out himself to vanity, as when a man shall give up himself to drink or to company, or to commit any sin of uncleanness, or giveth himself to spend all of his time in recreations, this is evident to the world and to his own conscience. Again, when he plainly forsaketh God and good courses which he took before, as Demas did, this is plain, he lieth in a known sin. Secondly, the secret lying in sin, the signs whereof are these.