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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.
Now the reasons hereof are these four especially.
Now the reasons hereof are these foure especially.
1. Because it is the means to get the spirit, without which no sin is forgiven, which cometh by 1faith; for it is not received by the law, for so saith the Apostle, Received you the spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Gal. 3. 2.
1. Because it is the meanes to get the spirit, without which no sinne is forgiven, which commeth by 1faith; for it is not recieved by the law, for so saith the Apostle, Received you the spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Gal. 3. 2.
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Secondly, it is the way to make us believe the promises, to make us believe that we are transformed 1into a heavenly nature: for when we believe the promises are true, that works love in us, and love transformeth us into the divine nature, without which no sin is overcome.