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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. That we might exercise our faith. 1 Joh. 3. 2. 1We are the sons of God, but it doth not yet appear what we shall be, &c. So God hath hid his children under baseness, that their faith might be exercised: for things we see, we may easily believe; but faith is ⟨p. 19⟩of things not seen: therefore God doth as men do, hide Jewels under base places, where men would look least for them: wherefore wicked men stumble, and are offended at this, because they do not believe it; and therefore it is made an article of our faith, that we need and believe the remission and forgiveness of sins. But let us apply it.
3. That wee might exercise our faith. 1 Ioh. 3. 2. 1Wee are the sonnes of God, but it doth not yet appeare what wee shall be, &c. So God hath hid his children under basenesse, that their faith might be exercised: for things we see, we may easily beleeve; but faith is ⟨p. 19⟩of things not seene: therefore God doth as men doe, hide Jewels under base places, where men would looke least for them: wherefore wicked men stumble, and are offended at this, because they doe not beleeve it; and therefore it is made an article of our faith, that we need and beleeve the remission and forgivenesse of sinnes. But let us apply it.
- 1Reas. 3.
1. This should teach us not to be discouraged