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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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3. This should teach us to be watchful, and not to think our labour is at an end when we are in the 1state of grace; for sin still dwelleth in us, and though we have the victory over sin one day, it will fight against us the next day: as in a garden the weeds will grow, because the roots are not quite plucked up, and taken away; so sin is in us, and therefore we must think it will fight against us and vex us; and therefore I say, let us renew our strength.
3. This should teach us to be watchfull, and not to think our labour is at an end when we are in the 1state of grace; for sinne still dwelleth in us, and though we have the victory over sinne one day, it will fight against us the next day: as in a garden the weeds will grow, because the roots are not quite plucked up, and taken away; so sinne is in us, and therefore we must think it will fight against us and vex us; and therefore I say, let us renue our strength.
- 1Use 3.Vse 3.
Now for this, we must do these two things. First, weaken sin. Secondly, pray to God to make us watchful.
Now for this, we must doe these two things. First, weaken sinne. Secondly, pray to God to make us watchfull.
And so I have also done with the second doctrine. Again, from the latter part of these words, or reason of the promise made unto them in the former part of this verse, that sin shall not have dominion over them, because they are not under the Law, but under grace: I gather this conclusion, viz. That the way to overcome sin, is to get assurance of the love and grace of