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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. It moveth us to love God the more. Mary loved much, because much was forgiven her.
3. It mollifies the most; it causeth them to relent, and weep much more. This is plain by that place, where it is said, that when God forgave the greatest sins, then they mourned and lamented, as in those Converts, Act. 2. 37.
3. It mollifies the most; it causeth them to relent, and weepe much more. This is plaine by that place, where it is said, that when God forgave the greatest sinnes, then they mourned and lamented, as in those Converts, Act. 2. 37.
4. It purifies the heart: for no man looks to keep his heart pure, until he be assured of the forgiveness of his sins; for till then he cannot look on God as on a Father: but on the contrary, when the sin is not forgiven, God loseth the glory of being a Father, and the glory of his truth, and of his mercy; and that hardens the heart from relenting.
4. It purifies the heart: for no man lookes to keepe his heart pure, untill hee be assured of the forgivenesse of his sinnes; for till then hee cannot looke on God as on a Father: but on the contrary, when the sinne is not forgiven, God loseth the glory of being a Father, and the glory of his truth, and of his mercy; and that hardens the heart from relenting.