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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, 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.
Secondly, When a man rejecteth admonitions, and the reprover. A poore childe is better than a foolish (that is a rich) King that will no longer be admonished, for then his heart is evill: for if a man be willing to have his lust mortified, hee is well pleased with him that brings him a knife to cut it off, because he doth as he would have him to doe: but when men are purposed to lye in sinne, they doe as a man doth with Physick that he loatheth, he hateth even the very pot it selfe 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 signe their hearts are good.
Thirdly, Abstinence from occasions: for many say their infirmities make them run into such and such sins; but if they were minded to leave their sins, they would leave their evil company and all occasions. To this add the use of the means: for he that purposeth to forsake his sins, will use ⟨p. 11⟩the means: as if a man that is a drunkard, will keep drunkards company, he hath not purposed to forsake his sins, for then he would forsake and leave his evil company: but if he use the means for mortifying the sins he loveth, then it is a sign he is willing to leave sin.
Thirdly, Abstinence from occasions: for many say their infirmities make them runne into such and such sinnes; but if they were minded to leave their sinnes, they would leave their evill company and all occasions. To this adde the use of the meanes: for hee that purposeth to forsake his sinnes, will use