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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
Christ's Fullness, and Man's Emptiness, &c.Christ's Fulnesse, and Man's Emptinesse, &c.
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Christ's Fullness, and Man's Emptiness, &c.
Christ's Fulnesse, and Man's Emptinesse, &c.
JOHN 1. 16. Of his Fullness we have all received Grace for Grace.
JOHN 1. 16. Of his Fullnesse we have all received Grace for Grace.
Saint Augustine in his book De Civitate Dei, seemes to stand amazed at the Majesty which appears in this first of John, above all other passages of Holy writ. And Calvin saith, he doth in this Chap: De•onare ab alto, giving it the chiefest instance wherein a divine stupendous authority appears beyond all the writing of men, Innins saith, that he was never strucken with an apprehension of the Deity, till he read this first Chapter, affirming it to be the first and chiefest cause of his conversion from Atheism to a sincere embracing of Christianity, you may see it in his life written by himself. And in all this Chapter, I find not a richer and fuller sentence then this which describes to us the fullness of Christ.
SAint Augustine in his booke De Civitate Dei, seemes to stand amazed at the Majesty which appeares in this first of Iohn, above all other passages of Holy writ. And Calvine saith, he doth in this Chap: De•onare ab alto, giving it the chiefest instance wherein a divine stupendious authority appeares beyond all the writing of men, Innins saith, that he was never strucken with an apprehension of the Diety, till he read this first Chapter, affirming it to be the first and chiefest cause of his conversion from Atheisme to a sincere imbracing of Christianity, you may see it in his life written by himselfe. And in all this Chapter, I finde not a richer and fuller sentence then this which describes to us the fullnesse of Christ.