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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.
It serves for encouragement for fearful Christians: 1for if sin shall not have dominion over you, then this may encourage you against the sin that prevaileth against you sometimes; at last you shall have the victory: it is true that many sins make war against many Christians, and will not be overcome for a long time, it may be for one, two, or three years; yet let us not be discouraged, but renew our strength again, and in the end we shall have the victory.
It serves for encouragement for fearefull Christians: 1for if sinne shall not have dominion over you, then this may encourage you against the sinne that prevaileth against you sometimes; at last you shall have the victory: it is true that many sinnes make warre against many Christians, and will not be overcome for a long time, it may be for one, two, or three yeares; yet let us not be discouraged, but renew our strength againe, and in the end wee shall have the victory.
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Thirdly, we have here the privilege of Christians; 1for though they be servants while others be Princes, yet they are free in regard of their lusts. To see a man led to his execution, we would not think it were for his honour; so when ungodly men thrive in their worldly lusts, their souls are led to destruction, when sin shall have no dominion over the godly; but the ambitious and voluptuous men do whatsoever their lusts command them, with a miserable bondage.
Thirdly, we have here the priviledge of Christians; 1