A55754:372
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.
THE DEFORMED FORM OF A FORMAL PROFESSION.
THE DEFORMED FORME OF A FORMALL PROFESSION.
2 TIMOTHY. 3. 5. Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.
2 TIMOTHIE. 3. 5. Having a forme of godlinesse, but denying the power thereof.
OUR Apostle S. Paul doth in these words give us a part of a description of wicked men in the latter times: & he bringeth them in by way of prevention or objection, or answer to an objection, as if some should wonder that there should be such kind of persons in the Church, as he in the former verses had described; Covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, &c. do these live as the Church do's? Do these retain the Sacraments, and the like? Yes, ⟨p. 2⟩saith the Apostle, they do, we cannot deny it; only this, They have a form of godliness, but &c. So that the point of doctrine arising from hence, doth plainly appear even at the first sight to be this, viz. That there is a powerful godliness necessary to salvation, and that many have but the form, not the power thereof.
OUR Apostle S. Paul doth in these words give us a part of a description of wicked men in the latter times: & he bringeth them in by way of prevention or objection, or answer to an objection, as if some should wonder that there should be such kinde of persons in the Church, as hee in the former verses had described; Covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankfull, unholy, &c. doe these live as the Church do's? Doe these retaine the Sacraments, and the like? Yes,