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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.
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.
Eighthly, when a man 1. Doth not purpose to commit the sin; 2. Hath reluctancy in the committing of it. 3. Grieveth afterwards, and riseth with a better resolution not to do it. But if this proceed from a natural conscience, it is nothing: but if it proceed from a spiritual conscience and hatred of sin, this is a good sign.
Eighthly, when a man 1. Doth not purpose to commit the sinne; 2. Hath reluctancie in the committing of it. 3. Grieveth afterwards, and riseth with a better resolution not to doe it. But if this proceed from a naturall conscience, it is nothing: but if it proceed from a spirituall conscience and hatred of sinne, this is a good signe.