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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.
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 1the way how to heal a sin, and that is to get assurance that it is pardoned and forgiven; for legal terrors do not heal a sin, but it is faith that purifies the heart, and purifying pacifies it: As a Traitor will not come in, when he hears a proclamation out for his death; but when he hears he shall live, and be pardoned, this makes him to come in: so we, when we only fix our eyes upon the legal terrors, shall not heal our sins; but when we believe they are pardoned, this heals them.
The use hereof is, first, for direction, to teach us 1the way how to heale a sinne, and that is to get assurance that it is pardoned and forgiven; for legall terrours doe not heale a sinne, but it is faith that purifies the heart, and purifying pacifies it: As a Traytor will not come in, when hee heares a proclamation out for his death; but when he heares he shall live, and be pardoned, this makes him to come in: so we, when wee onely fix our eyes upon the legall terrours, shall not heale our sinnes; but when wee beleeve they are pardoned, this heales them.
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