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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
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Fifthly, when a man confesseth his sins particularly, and plainly: for this is a sign he would forsake them: this reason the Scripture doth show, because then the conscience maketh such a noise ⟨p. 12⟩that he cannot deny it; for when a man is purposed to continue in sin, he will not confess his sins, no not to God: it is said when they came to John Baptist, They confessed their sins, Matth. 3. 6. So David saith, I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord, and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Psal. 32. 5.
Fifthly, when a man confesseth his sinnes particularly, and plainely: for this is a signe hee would forsake them: this reason the Scripture doth show, because then the conscience maketh such a noyse ⟨p. 12⟩that he cannot denie it; for when a man is purposed to continue in sinne, hee will not confesse his sinnes, no not to God: it is said when they came to Iohn Baptist, They confessed their sinnes, Matth. 3. 6. So David saith, I said, I will confesse my transgressions unto the Lord, and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sinne. Psal. 32. 5.
Sixthly, When he is easily convicted: but when men will not be convicted, but seek out distinctions to maintain their sin, it is a sign it is prevalent in them. Again, when they will not examine both sides, but run to commit it, and stop their ears like a deaf adder, which refuseth to hear the voice of the Charmer, charm he never so wisely, and will not hear the reasons against that sin, least they should be restrained. Therefore the righteous are said to ponder their ways, and consider their paths, and to try everything, and to take that which is good. Now, he that will but hear reasons against the sin he doth, he is none of these: but when he will not be convinced, which is the first work of the spirit, it is a sign he is under the dominion of sin.