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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.
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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Secondly, in them there was Plenitudo Vasis; In Christ, Plenitudo ⟨p. 4⟩fontis, that is, there was in them a derived participated Fullness, but in Christ there was a Fullness like the Fullness of a Fountain springing from himself, which is well expressed by the Schoolmen, when they say, that the Fullness of the Saints and of Christ differ, as Ignis and Ignita, the one like Torches kindled, the other like Fire it self, for the Fullness of the Ocean is too little to express this; For if you take a drop or two from it, it is so much lessened, rather the fullness of the fire, which lights a thousand Torches, yet is not it self diminished.
Secondly, in them there was Plenitudo Vasis; In Christ, Plenitudo ⟨p. 4⟩fontis, that is, there was in them a derived participated Fulnesse, but in Christ there was a Fulnes like the Fulnes of a Fountaine springing from himself, which is well expressed by the Schoolmen, when they say, that the Fulnes of the Saints and of Christ differ, as Ignis and Ignita, the one like Torches kindled, the other like Fire it selfe, for the Fulnes of the Ocean is too little to expresse this; For if you take a drop or two from it, it is so much lessened, rather the fulnes of the fire, which lights a thousand Torches, yet is not it selfe diminished.