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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
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The second thing that we have to declare, is, 1What this love of the Lord Jesus is. Now the best way to show what this is, is to show how it ⟨p. 6⟩is wrought: now for the working of it, there must be two Antecedent things which must make way for it; and they are Humiliation and Faith: for every one believes not this to be needful; and if they do believe it, yet they may be opposite to it, because it is not agreeable to their nature, That a man must be broken so, and moulded again, before he can have this love which is wrought by Humiliation and Faith. And they are wrought on this manner, when we preach the Gospel, and offer Jesus Christ unto you: for the duty of a Minister, is nothing but this, to offer Jesus Christ himself unto the world. To us a Child is borne; To us a Son is given: for, unto you is borne a Saviour, that is, Christ the Lord. This is the sum of the 2Gospel; this is the news which we bring: God hath given us his Son; we offer you not forgiveness 3of sin, But the Lord Jesus. And when he hath given us him, will he not with him give us all things also? Christ must first be given, and when you have him, you shall have all: in him 4are the promises, yea and Amen. First have Christ, 5and then the promises belong unto you, not before. The Gospel is no•hing but this; we are to manifest, that God the Father is willing to give you his Sonne. We are his Spokesmen, to beseech you to take him, that you would take him as your 6husband, to be ruled by him: none, before you are humbled, can marry you to Christ. You must be divorced from all other things, and believe that Christ will take you; and this is Faith, the other Humiliation. And then when you can receive him, you will love him. Now when we ⟨p. 7⟩