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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.
3. We have in this life but the first-fruits of the spirit: now when we shall have it in fullness, we shall have no more than enough; therefore having now but the first-fruits of the spirit, Mortification, and Sanctification, sin is not wholly abolished in the Saints in this life, but doth dwell in them. The reasons hereof are,
3. Wee have in this life but the first-fruits of the spirit: now when wee shall have it in fulnesse, we shall have no more than enough; therefore having now but the first-fruits of the spirit, Mortification, and Sanctification, sinne is not wholly abolished in the Saints in this life, but doth dwell in them. The reasons hereof are,
1. To humble us, and to make us see what is in 1our hearts, and to make us know that the Lord bringeth us to the holy Land; therefore God sometimes left the Israelites to try them; and so he troubled Hezekiah to know what was in his heart; and so he sent a Messenger of Satan to buffet S. Paul, lest he should be exalted above measure through abundance of Revelations; and so the Lord doth deal with every Saint.
1. To humble us, and to make us see what is in 1our hearts, and to make us know that the Lord bringeth us to the holy Land; therfore God sometimes left the Israelites to try them; and so hee troubled Hezechiah to know what was in his heart; and so he sent a Messenger of Satan to buffet S. Paul, lest hee should be exalted above measure through aboundance of Revelations; and so the Lord doth deale with every Saint.
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