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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.
In the first place therefore labour to get new hearts, as the bottom of these purposes, which 1may be as the root to give sap to them; for then they will live and grow in you, when there is a soil to suit with them.
In the first place therefore labour to get new hearts, as the bottome of these purposes, which 1may be as the root to give sap to them; for then they will live and grow in you, when there is a soyle to sute with them.
- 1How to get the power of godliness.How to get the power of godlinesse.
Secondly, get power in believing. Christ our Saviour, when he came unto his Country, it is said, He would not put forth his power to work many miracles there: Why so? one would have thought he should rather have wrought them there than any where else, both for his own honour, and the good of his Country-men; no place then was fitter for that than it: yet there he works few or none, and the reason was, because of their unbelief, they believed not: so that it is the want of faith that holds Gods hands from strengthening you; you will not (I say) believe God, who hath sworn (and it is not an idle oath) that he would grant that we should serve him in godliness and holiness all the days of our life. When the widow came to Christ to be healed of the issue which she had many years, it is said that virtue went out of him to heal her, because she believed: and though it have bin a disease of never so many years, yet if he say, Be ye whole, it is no matter what ⟨p. 17⟩the disease is, so God be the Physician; and therefore believe.
Secondly, get power in beleeving. Christ our Saviour, when he came unto his Country, it is said, He would not put forth his power to work many miracles there: Why so? one would have thought hee should rather have wrought them there than any where else, both for his owne honour, and the good of his Country-men; no place then was fitter for that than it: yet there he works few or none, and the reason was, because of their unbeliefe, they beleeved not: so that it is the want of faith that holds Gods hands from strengthening you; you will not (I say) beleeve God, who hath sworn (and it is not an idle oath) that hee would grant that wee should serve him in godlinesse and holinesse all the dayes of our life. When the widow came to Christ to be healed of the issue which she had many years, it is said that vertue went out of him to heale her, because she beleeved: and though it have bin a disease of never so many yeares, yet if he say, Be ye whole, it is no matter what