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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.
What is meant by the power of godliness: and 1for that, you shall know there is a godliness, which is not only in words and complements, but in deed and truth; for it not only puts upon a man a washy colour of perfection, but dyes his heart in grain in holiness; and it differs from the other in five things.
What is meant by the power of godlinesse: and 1for that, you shall know there is a godlinesse, which is not only in words and complements, but in deed and truth; for it not only puts upon a man a washie colour of perfection, but dyes his heart in graine in holinesse; and it differs from the other in five things.
- 1What is meant by the power of godliness.What is meant by the power of godlinesse.
First, It is done in the Power, when it is not the bare picture, where there are not only the outward ⟨p. 4⟩lineaments of nature, but when there is life in it; 1and that you shall know when a man needs not to be called on to good duties, but there is a natural principle of life in him, whereby he doth them with facility and constancy, as natural actions of life: when likewise he doth grow in them; for where there is life, there is also growth; and when he doth likewise desire that which may feed it, as the means which may strengthen him in the doing of it; as if a man have life, he desireth meat and sleep; and when as there is life, then the works that come from a man, are not dead works, and then you have the power of godliness, it is not a fashion only.