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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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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 1doth remain and dwell in them: for proof whereof see this place of Scripture, If any man thinketh (saith 2Saint John) that he hath no sin, he is a liar, and there is no truth in him. The truth whereof will be seen in these things clearly.
And so much may be sufficient for the unfolding the first point of doctrine; proceed wee to a second which flowes from hence also, and that is this, viz. That sinne although it doe not raigne in the Saints, yet 1doth remaine and dwell in them: for proofe whereof see this place of Scripture, If any man thinketh (saith 2Saint Iohn) that he hath no sinne, hee is a lyer, and there is no truth in him. The truth whereof will be seene in these things clearely.
- 1Doct. 2.
- 21 Joh. 1. 8.1 Ioh. 1. 8.
1. Because our knowledge is imperfect, and therefore every grace is imperfect, as our faith, and so our love; and therefore much sin must be in a man, in as much as his grace is not perfect.
1. Because our knowledge is imperfect, and therefore every grace is imperfect, as our faith, and so our love; and therefore much sinne must be in a man, in as much as his grace is not perfect.