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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 is not enough for men to see their sins, or to 1blame them in themselves, or to purpose to amend or forsake them, but they must strive to overcome them, or else they shall have no promise of the Gospel applied unto them. Pharaoh was a wicked man, yet with heart he purposed to let the children of Israel go; but when some temptation assaulted him, then he would not let them go: so Saul purposed in his heart not to kill David, insomuch that he sware to Jonathan he would not do it; yet afterward he attempted it upon another temptation: but we must come to feel that sin hath no dominion over us, otherwise we shall hear that sentence, Depart from me ye wicked into everlasting fire; and, Out of thy own mouth I will adjudge thee, O thou wicked servant.
It is not enough for men to see their sinnes, or to 1blame them in themselves, or to purpose to amend or forsake them, but they must strive to overcome them, or else they shall have no promise of the Gospel apply'd unto them. Pharaoh was a wicked man, yet with heart he purposed to let the children of Israel goe; but when some temptation assaulted him, then he would not let them goe: so Saul purposed in his heart not to kill David, insomuch that he sware to Ionathan he would not doe it; yet afterward he attempted it upon another temptation: but wee must come to feele that sinne hath no dominion over us, otherwise we shall heare that sentence, Depart from mee ye wicked into everlasting fire; and, Out of thy owne mouth I will adjudge thee, O thou wicked servant.
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And so much may be sufficient for the unfolding the first point of doctrine; proceed we to a second which flows from hence also, and that is this, viz. That sin although it do not reign in the Saints, yet 1