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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, to fast and pray; for some lusts are not cast out but by these three.
Thirdly, to use godly mens company, for their practise and example helps them to forsake their sins, to fast and pray.
Thirdly, to use godly mens company, for their practise and example helps them to forsake their sinnes, to fast and pray.
Another sign of not lying in any known sin, is when a man prays for admonitions, that God would stir up some to admonish him, and can be content to search reasons out of the Scripture against it, and is glad when he hears it reproved in the public ministry.
Another signe of not lying in any knowne sin, is whē a man prayes for admonitions, that God would stirre up some to admonish him, and can be content to search reasons out of the Scripture against it, and is glad when he heares it reproved in the publique ministery.
Fourthly, when we can be content to be deprived of many things which might further our lusts, and to loath what sweetness might increase them; that is a sure sign that sin rules not in us.