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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.
Yet God will forgive thee. Though thou hast oft committed whoredom, yet I will forgive thee, if thou turn 1unto me, saith the Lord, by the Prophet, of the house of Israel, Jer. 3. 1.
Yet God will forgive thee. Though thou hast oft committed whoredome, yet I will forgive thee, if thou turne 1unto me, saith the Lord, by the Prophet, of the house of Israel, Ier. 3. 1.
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Hence then (to make some use of it) we may learn not to deceive our selves, to think we are in 1the state of grace, when we are not: for if we did truly believe our sins are forgiven us, we would be healed: but if we have the same lusts, and keep the same company, which we did when we were not changed, it is a mere delusion, whatsoever we say or think.
Hence then (to make some use of it) wee may learne not to deceive our selves, to think we are in 1the state of grace, when we are not: for if wee did truly beleeve our sinnes are forgiven us, wee would be healed: but if we have the same lusts, and keepe the same company, which we did when wee were not changed, it is a meere delusion, whatsoever we say or think.
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