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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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Ninthly, when after striving we have the victory: for we shall have the victory if we strive aright. This takes away their excuse that say it's their infirmity: but if they lye not in sin, they will have the victory over it; else thou art not a King, for a King is victorious; yet a King may have rebels, yea, he may be wounded, yet he keeps his power. So the Saints may have many infirmities, yea they may have sound falls, yet in the end they have the victory; God shall tread Satan under their feet: wherefore the Godly mans heart, though he faileth sometimes, is like a troubled fountain, which though it be muddy, yet because there is a spring of grace in his heart, it worketh it self pure again, and works out all the mud. Therefore content ⟨p. 14⟩not your selves with dislike of sin, but leave not till you have got the victory.
Ninthly, when after striving we have the victory: for we shall have the victory if we strive aright. This takes away their excuse that say it's their infirmitie: but if they lye not in sinne, they will have the victory over it; else thou art not a King, for a King is victorious; yet a King may have rebels, yea, he may be wounded, yet hee keepes his power. So the Saints may have many infirmities, yea they may have sound falls, yet in the end they have the victory; God shall tread Satan under their feet: wherefore the Godly mans heart, though hee faileth sometimes, is like a troubled fountaine, which though it be muddie, yet because there is a spring of grace in his heart, it worketh it selfe pure againe, and works out all the mud. Therefore content ⟨p. 14⟩not your selves with dislike of sinne, but leave not till you have got the victory.
Tenthly, Observe whether thou delightest in those that commit the same sins: if you do, you lye in sin, whatsoever you pretend. They do not only those things, but have pleasure in those that do them. Rom. 1. ult. This is a sign of a desperate heart. For a man may be drawn to sin by passion, yet his heart may be upright: but when he alloweth and loveth it in another, then there is no passion to lead him, but it's a sign his heart is bent to it: for it's a sign of grace when you love those that excel in grace; so on the contrary it's a sign of a corrupt and rotten heart, when we rejoice in iniquity. As for example, suppose a man have a lust of uncleanness, yet disliketh it in another, and liketh those that excel in the contrary virtue, it's a sign he is in a good estate; and this is true, because in another a man hath no passion to lead him away.