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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.
Secondly, from that there is a power in godliness, if it be such a powerful thing (as you have heard it 1is) then this may serve to comfort us in the ways of it. Wheresoever it is in truth, there it is in power: say that thou hast such a light that thou canst not believe, that there be such roads as that thou canst not walk by them, yet if thou hast godliness, thou shalt be able to overcome; for the kingdom of God consists in power. When God cometh to dwell in any mans heart, he sendeth godliness into it, which rules in it as a King in his Kingdom; think therefore of it as of Monarchs as Alexander was, or those which Daniel speaketh of, it carries all before it, it bringeth every thought into subjection: and therefore also the Spirit is called a spirit of power; and if you have godliness, it cometh from the spirit, and therefore is accompanied with power; and therefore Christ is said to be full of the holy Ghost, and of power; and so Stephen, and John the Baptist; And grace is said to be a powerful thing: Be strong in the grace of God, and in the Power of his might.
Secondly, from that there is a power in godlinesse, if it be such a powerfull thing (as you have heard it 1is) then this may serve to comfort us in the wayes of it. Wheresoever it is in truth, there it is in power: say that thou hast such a light that thou canst not beleeve, that there be such roades as that thou canst not walk by them, yet if thou hast godlinesse, thou shalt be able to overcome; for the kingdome of God consists in power. When God commeth to dwell in any mans heart, hee sendeth godlinesse into it, which rules in it as a King in his Kingdome; think therefore of it as of Monarchs as Alexander was, or those which Daniel speaketh of, it carries all before it, it bringeth every thought into subjection: and therefore also the Spirit is called a spirit of power; and if you have godlinesse, it commeth from the spirit, and therefore is accompanied with power; and therfore Christ is said to be full of the holy Ghost, and of power; and so Stephen, and Iohn the Baptist; And grace is said to be a powerfull thing: Be strong in the grace of God, and in the Power of his might.
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