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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.
But here one Question must be answered. Steven and other Saints are said in Scripture to be full of the Holy Ghost, and how 1differs this from the Fullness of Christ?
But here one Question must bee answered. Steven and other Saints are said in Scripture to be full of the Holy Ghost, and how 1differs this from the Fulnesse of Christ?
- 1Quest.
I answer, first they were said to be full according to their measure, 1Christ out of measure, as a little Dish may be said to be full as well as the Ocean. So they were said to be full, because filled according to the narrowness of their present Capacity. But Christ was full according to all dimensions, length, breadth, and depth of Fullness.
I answer, first they were said to be full according to their measure, 1Christ out of measure, as a little Dish may be said to be full as well as the Ocean. So they were said to be full, because filled according to the narrownes of their present Capacity. But Christ was full according to all dimensions, length, breadth, and depth of Fulnesse.
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