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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.
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⟩break through all difficulties, he will leap over all till he hath wrought out his salvation with fear and trembling.
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 effectuall, 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, hee will ⟨p. 7⟩break through all difficulties, hee will leape over all till he hath wrought out his salvation with feare and trembling.
And thus having dispatched the two former particulars, I hasten to the third and last of the premises, viz. The reasons why some have but the form, and not the power: and they are especially these.
And thus having dispatcht the two former particulars, I hasten to the third and last of the premises, viz. The reasons why some have but the forme, and not the power: and they are especially these.
First, because the form is most easy, but the 1power is a matter of more difficulty: for the former it doth not call upon a man to cut off his right hand, to pluck out his right eye, and to deny himself in things nearest and dearest unto him, as the power doth; for it requires a man should take pains in good duties, and go through them, not to omit or slight the least of them in the least measure that may be, or to lie in known sins; and farther, it requires a man should do this from day to day, and that when it crosses the flesh most: this is an hard saying, and caused many that they would no longer abide with Christ; they were willing to obey the form, but not the power.