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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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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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And thus much for the third point too: there yet remains one more, wherewith we will conclude the whole text; and that we may draw from the contrary to what the Apostle here saith; and indeed it is implied, though not expressed: for if sin have no dominion over them that are not under the law, but under grace: then on the other side must it needs be as true, That Whosoever is under the law, sin hath dominion over him, that is, He that refraineth 1sin only for fear of the law, and of judgements, sin hath dominion over him: this is the case of them that refrain sinning only for fear, and for the salvation of their souls, or for educations sake, ⟨p. 27⟩which have been brought up in good families, or such as repent upon some amazement, like the bulrushes which hang down their heads only while the shower lasts. And that,