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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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Fourthly, the charge laid on us to believe: we are charged on the pain of death to believe; and 1therefore it is most profitable for us, and most pleasing to him: he takes it well at our hands that we should believe, and by the hand of faith lay hold on him; which he would not do if he were not ready to forgive.
Fourthly, the charge laid on us to beleeve: wee are charged on the paine of death to beleeve; and 1therefore it is most profitable for us, and most pleasing to him: hee takes it wel at our hands that wee should beleeve, and by the hand of faith lay hold on him; which hee would not doe if he were not ready to forgive.
- 1Motive 4.
Fifthly, from the examples of others; let us see 1what God hath done for them, and it will make us believe: he forgave Manasseh as well as Joshua, he pardoned Mary Magdalen as well as Elizabeth, and Paul as well as Peter: he hath forgiven the greatest sins as well as the least, and he will also deal so with us.
Fifthly, from the examples of others; let us see 1what God hath done for them, and it will make us beleeve: he forgave Manasses as well as Ioshua, he pardoned Mary Magdalen as well as Elizabeth, and Paul as well as Peter: he hath forgiven the greatest sinnes as well as the least, and he will also deale so with us.
- 1Motive 5.