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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.
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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2. Hence we may learn not to defer repentance, 1till death, sickness, crosses, or age comes: then it may be you would not sin, though with Balaam you had your house full of gold and silver: for it's not the abstinence from sin that God loveth, but the change of the heart. Amaziah's heart was not right though he walked in all the ways of David. There are men that have made a covenant ⟨p. 28⟩with hell and death; but God will disannul that covenant, or it will be but equivocal; many have sworn in their sickness never to commit sin again, which afterward they have committed again with greediness; many have dyed in the same without repentance.