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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.
Secondly, to such Gods service is burdensome; and violent motions last not long: they are weary in clambering up an hill: all natural motions are swifter at the last than at the first; but these are like the Israe ites, who after a time would have returned into Egypt again.
Secondly, to such Gods service is burthensome; and violent motious last not long: they are weary in clambering up an hill: all naturall motions are swifter at the last than at the first; but these are like the Israe ites, who after a time would have returned into Aegypt againe.
Now then, to end all with the time, let us 1. Be 1exhorted not to abstain from any sin for fear of punishment, but consider whether thou wouldest serve God for Gods sake, although there were neither heaven nor hell: it must be our meat and drink, which men would do though there were no punishment for the omission of it. Blessed is he that hungereth and their steth after righteousness.
Now then, to end all with the time, let us 1. Be 1exhorted not to abstaine from any sinne for feare of punishment, but consider whether thou wouldest serve God for Gods sake, although there were neither heaven nor hell: it must be our meat and drink, which men would doe though there were no punishment for the omission of it. Blessed is hee that hungreth and thir steth after righteousnesse.
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