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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. When a man committeth it ordinarily: this is that Paul saith, that the Saints fall upon occasions: as if a man be sailing into France, a tempest driveth him into Spain; so the Saints face is towards ⟨p. 10⟩heaven, but a sudden passion may drive them another way. To commit sin ordinarily, is to commit it when temptation assaileth, and occasion is offered, and impediments removed, then he commits the sin ordinarily; for if there were such temptations always, he would commit the sin always: as Pharaoh was good by fits, he was often restored, and desired Moses to pray for him; yet when temptation came, he would not let the people go, though before he had intended to do it. So Saul, when opportunity was offered, would have killed David, though he swore not to do it; and so Hazael: this is committing of sins ordinarily.
1. When a man committeth it ordinarily: this is that Paul saith, that the Saints fall upon occasions: as if a man be sailing into France, a tempest driveth him into Spaine; so the Saints face is towards ⟨p. 10⟩heaven, but a suddaine passion may drive them another way. To commit sinne ordinarily, is to commit it when temptation assaileth, and occasion is offered, and impediments removed, then hee commits the sinne ordinarily; for if there were such temptations alwayes, hee would commit the sinne alwayes: as Pharaoh was good by fits, he was often restored, and desired Moses to pray for him; yet when temptation came, hee would not let the people goe, though before he had intended to do it. So Saul, when opportunity was offered, would have killed David, though he swore not to doe it; and so Hazael: this is committing of sinnes ordinarily.
Secondly, When a man rejecteth admonitions, and the reprover. A poor child is better than a foolish (that is a rich) King that will no longer be admonished, for then his heart is evil: for if a man be willing to have his lust mortified, he is well pleased with him that brings him a knife to cut it off, because he doth as he would have him to do: but when men are purposed to lye in sin, they do as a man doth with Physic that he loatheth, he hateth even the very pot it self wherein it was; so they hate them that admonish them, even as dogs: but if they can endure the company of good men, it is a sign their hearts are good.