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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.
Seventhly, from the price which was payed, and 1which no sin can go beyond: indeed, if Christ had payed but a finite price, we might fear that our sins should not be forgiven. If a man were in debt two thousand pound, and there were but one paid, he might be discouraged: but when there is infinitely more paid than the debt is, this should make us believe our sins are forgiven us whatsoever they be, seeing they be all but finite.
Seventhly, from the price which was payed, and 1which no sinne can goe beyond: indeed, if Christ had payed but a finite price, wee might feare that our sinnes should not be forgiven. If a man were in debt two thousand pound, and there were but one pay'd, hee might be discouraged: but when there is infinitely more pay'd than the debt is, this should make us beleeve our sinnes are forgiven us whatsoever they be, seeing they be all but finite.
- 1Motive 7.
Eighthly, from the tenor of the Promises, which 1proclaim that they that believe and repent, and forsake their sins, shall find pardon for them: as a King that proclaims that all traitors and rebels ⟨p. 26⟩shall be pardoned if they would lay down their weapons. Now, Non est excipiendum ubi •ex non excipit, There is no exception to be made where the law makes none. God faith, yea therefore hath said and sworn it, that he will forgive our sins, that we may believe it.
Eighthly, from the tenour of the Promises, which