A55754:437
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.
First, that which is also the Scope of the Evangelist in this place; This should invite us to come to Christ, and to take of this full heap. This Incentive Paul often uses to inflame the desires of the Gentiles to come to Christ, even the Riches of that fullness which is in him, which in the fullness of time began to be exposed to all Comers, as he saith, hidden before, but now fully revealed; seen before but in Types and Shadows, now with open face; before preached but to a few, now to every Creature under Heaven; before the Spirit was given but by drops, but now he that hath ascended on high, and led Captivity Captive, hath so given gifts to men, that he hath filled all things.
First, that which is also the Scope of the Evangelist in this place; This should invite us to come to Christ, and to take of this full heape. This Incentive Paul often uses to inflame the desires of the Gentiles to come to Christ, even the Riches of that fulnes which is in him, which in the fulnesse of time began to be exposed to all Commers, as he saith, hidden before, but now fully revealed; seen before but in Types and Shadowes, now with open face; before preached but to a few, now to every Creature under Heaven; before the Spirit was given but by drops, but now he that hath ascended on high, and led Captivity Captive, hath so given gifts to men, that he hath filled all things.
Let us therefore be exhorted when we hear of such a fullness, not to take the Grace of God in vain, but labour we to have our part in it, that as those Corinthians, we may be made rich in Christ filled with all knowledge and every grace. Content not your selves therefore to know this only, for that is our common fault to content our selves with the Notions of such things without practise.
Let us therefore be exhorted when we heare of such a fulnesse, not to take the Grace of God in vaine, but labour we to have our part in it, that as those Corinthians, we may be made rich in Christ filled with all knowledge and every grace. Content not your selves therefore to know this onely, for that is our common fault to content our selves with the Notions of such things without practise.