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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.
2. His mercy is infinite; but in men it is not so: therefore come within compass of this quality, and he will exercise it; for no sin is beyond Gods mercy: this keepeth us from despair: for though they be great, yet God is able to forgive them. As the rain watereth as well the great field as the little garden, and as the Sun shines as well on mountains as on Molehills, and as it disperseth the thick mist as well as the least thin cloud, so doth Gods mercy pass by great sins as well as little.
2. His mercy is infinite; but in men it is not so: therefore come within compasse of this quality, and hee will exercise it; for no sinne is beyond Gods mercy: this keepeth us from despaire: for though they be great, yet God is able to forgive them. As the raine watereth as well the great field as the little garden, and as the Sunne shines as well on mountaines as on Molehills, and as it disperseth the thick mist as well as the least thinne cloud, so doth Gods mercy passe by great sinnes as well as little.
But if our sins be exceeding great, aggravated 1with circumstances, and often committed, then we cannot imagine that God will forgive us. This is 2answered by the Prophet Isaiah; God is more merciful than man can be sinful, he is more merciful than we can imagine: My thoughts are as much above 3your thoughts as the heaven is above the earth.
But if our sinnes be exceeding great, aggravated 1with circumstances, and often committed, then we cannot imagine that God will forgive us. This is 2answered by the Prophet Isaiah; God is more mercifull than man can be sinfull, he is more mercifull than we can imagine: My thoughts are as much above