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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.
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 2to that type, was filled not only with the effects of the Deity as then, but with the Deity it self, which is therefore said to dwell in him corporally or essentially. [2. He was moreover filled with a Created Fullness, and so he was said to be full of all divine good things, which John reduces to two heads, Grace and Truth. Truth which comprehendeth all the virtues of understanding; And Grace which compriseth all beauties and perfections of the will.
Thirdly, these receits 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 Waxe print for print, Character for Character, or as a father is said to give to the sonne lymbe for lymbe, member for member, though not of the same bignesse and measure. In the same sence 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 fulnesse we have all received