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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.
Thirdly, because hereby we are able to resist the tentations, which are either for the enjoying of ⟨p. 21⟩1good, or fleeing of evil; so that these promises propound more good than sin can harm: sin threatened the loss of outward things, but the promises propound eternal life, which is better than all things else in the world.
Thirdly, because hereby wee are able to resist the tentations, which are either for the enjoying of ⟨p. 21⟩1good, or fleeing of evill; so that these promises propound more good than sinne can harme: sinne threatned the losse of outward things, but the promises propound eternall life, which is better than all things else in the world.
- 1Reas. 3.
Fourthly, because we do delight in God: for when we do believe in God that our sins are forgiven us in Christ, then we look at God as on a merciful Father, and then we cease to delight in the world, and we begin to delight our selves in the Lord.
Fourthly, because we doe delight in God: for when wee doe beleeve in God that our sinnes are forgiven us in Christ, then we looke at God as on a mercifull Father, and then wee cease to delight in the world, and we begin to delight our selves in the Lord.
The use hereof is, first, for direction, to teach us