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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
To the reader: ❧ To the Anti-Arminian: OR, To every good Christian Reader.
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.
❧ To the Anti-Arminian: OR, To every good Christian Reader.
Good Reader,
Pliny the great Naturalist, taxeth some of the Greek, and Latin Writers in his 1time, of folly at the least, for sending abroad their empty and worthless Pamphlets with an over-praise in the Title, promising much at the first sight, but utterly deceiving the Reader in his further search: But he that shall with judgment read this Sermon, will find somewhat more then a naked title to commend it. Sometimes the work-man graceth the work: Sometimes the Work the Work-man; but behold in this Treatise they kiss each other, and are joined together as a white Rose & a red Rose in one sweet Posy. But, that both have been abused in the first Impression hereof, it appeareth as clearly (by the Manuscript) as the splendant Sun within Earths spangled Canopy: for a• those Passages, which will make the Arminians to stumble and (without doubt) to fall in some measure, are (by ⟨image 87⟩the Imprimatur-ist) deleted; as if Arminianism 2were Englands true Doctrine. But now for thy comfort (Dear Christian) thou hast the Author's Sermon as it was preached before King James, without the least diminution; And I sent it out with that prayer, or benediction that Jacob sent with his sons into Egypt; God Almighty give thee mercy in the