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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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Fourthly, If thou wouldest know whether thy godliness be in the power or no, see whether thou hast not only the shadow of it, but the substance; for there is a shadow with the substance: as if thou pray, there is a formal doing of it, which is as the shadow; but to pray in the holy Ghost, not in the voice of thy own spirit, but out of Gods own spirit; not out of memory or wit, but out of thy heart, and that an heart sanctified by the Spirit of adoption; this is the substance. And so to hear for knowledge only, that is the shadow; but to hear for practise, that is the substance: And so again, for us to preach the Gospel, to do it because necessity it laid upon us, and there's a woe denounced against us if we do it not, as saith our Apostle of himself, there is the shadow; But to preach with power, and authority, and not as the Scribes and Pharisees, with the enticing words of mans wisdom, this is the substance.
Fourthly, If thou wouldest know whether thy godlinesse be in the power or no, see whether thou hast not only the shaddow of it, but the substance; for there is a shaddow with the substance: as if thou pray, there is a formall doing of it, which is as the shaddow; but to pray in the holy Ghost, not in the voyce of thy owne spirit, but out of Gods owne spirit; not out of memory or wit, but out of thy heart, and that an heart sanctified by the Spirit of adoption; this is the substance. And so to heare for knowledge onely, that is the shaddow; but to heare for practise, that is the substance: And so againe, for us to preach the Gospel, to doe it because necessity it laid upon us, and there's a woe denounced against us if we doe it not, as saith our Apostle of himselfe, there is the shaddow; But to preach with power, and authority, and not as the Scribes and Pharises, with the enticing words of mans wisedome, this is the substance.
Fifthly and finally, It is in the power when a man goeth thorough the work: a thing is said to be in the power when it is effectual, when a man bringeth it to an end, and doth it not by halves: so some begin indeed, but then they leave the work in the rudiments: but if a man have the power, he will ⟨p. 7⟩