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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.
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, this is not a respective but a diffusive Fullness, that is, Fullness not shut up in its own Banks, but running over for our benefit and use.
Secondly, this is not a respective but a diffusive Fulnesse, that is, Fulnesse not shut up in its owne Bankes, but running over for our benefit and use.
Of his Fullness we have all received, that is, all that ever had any Grace took it from this heap, drew it from this fountain.
Of his Fulnesse we have all received, that is, all that ever had any Grace took it from this heap, drew it from this fountaine.
Thirdly, these receipts are amplified by the variety of them, Grace for Grace. That is, Christ hath given to us for all the Graces which he received of his father for us; Graces answerable, as the Seal is said to give to the Wax print for print, Character for Character, or as a father is said to give to the son limb for limb, member for member, though not of the same bigness and measure. In the same sense Christ is said to give to us Grace for Grace. So that now you see here a full shop, many Buyers or Receivers, chose of wares, or rather to use the Scriptures similitude: A full Table, many Guests, Variety of dishes: Of his fullness we have all received 1Grace for Grace. ⟨p. 2⟩[We begin with the first. This Fullness is attributed to Christ in 4. respects. [1. In regard of his person: So he was full. 1. with an increate Fullness: for as the glory of God filled the Temple that Moses could not enter in: so the humanity of Christ which answered