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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.
Seventhly, when a man abstaineth from sin not only out of a natural conscience, but out of a spiritual; for a natural conscience may deceive him: for there be three degrees of conscience: First, a profane man hath some conscience; Secondly, a civill man hath more conscience; yet both natural: Thirdly, a godly man hath most conscience.
Seventhly, when a man abstaineth from sinne not onely out of a naturall conscience, but out of a spirituall; for a naturall conscience may deceive him: for there be three degrees of conscience: First, a prophane man hath some conscience; Secondly, a civill man hath more conscience; yet both naturall: Thirdly, a godly man hath most conscience.
Paul speaketh of the heathen, that they had a conscience that did accuse and excuse them: but when ⟨p. 13⟩a man doth not commit sin, being enlightened by a spiritual conscience, which is when a man hath a love to the contrary grace, and is carried with a certain desire to do it (as men eat) though there were no reward, and hate the sin, and will not commit it, this is a good sign that sin hath not dominion over him: but a man may have a restraint from a natural conscience, yet it may have dominion over him, because it is as a barking dog, that keeps the thief from robbing.
Paul speaketh of the heathen, that they had a conscience that did accuse and excuse them: but when ⟨p. 13⟩a man doth not commit sinne, being enlightned by a spirituall conscience, which is when a man hath a love to the contrary grace, and is carried with a certaine desire to doe it (as men eat) though there were no reward, and hate the sinne, and will not commit it, this is a good signe that sinne hath not dominion over him: but a man may have a restraint from a naturall conscience, yet it may have dominion over him, because it is as a barking dogge, that keepes the theefe from robbing.