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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.
In other things fullness invites us much; Joseph's full Barnes in Egypt, drew Jacob and his Sons thither: Canaan was a Land Ful• flowing with milk and honey, and that invited the Israelites to seek it: Solomons abundance and fullness of wisdom, caused the ⟨p. 5⟩Queen of Sheba to come out of the South to his Court. In every thing fullness doth much allure and affect us. The Covetous man though he spend but little, yet he desires to take it from a full heap, as he saies De pleno tollere acervo. How much more then should this fullness of Christ work on us, especially since there is in him not only a repletive but a diffusive fullness; not only plenty, but also bounty? But alas, if we look upon the ways and actions of men, we shall find that men seek a fullness in every thing else, almost, a fullness in pleasure and delights, a fullness in honour and preferments; But this full Honey Comb is almost every where despised, but happy he, the bent of whose heart God hath turned the right way to seek a fullness of Faith and Wisdom, and a fullness of the Holy Ghost, who cares not though he be empty of any thing else, so he be full of these? though a looser in other things, so a Gainer in these. Such a one hath chosen the better part which shall never be taken from him.
In other things fullnes invites us much; Ioseph's full Barnes in Aegypt, drew Iacob and his Sons thither: Canaan was a Land Ful• flowing with milke and honey, and that invited the Israelites to secke it: Solomons abundance and fulnesse of wisedome, caused the ⟨p. 5⟩Queene of Sheba to come out of the South to his Court. In every thing fulnes doth much allure and affect us. The Covetous man though he spend but little, yet he desires to take it from a full heape, as he saies De pleno tollere acervo. How much more then should this fulnes of Christ worke on us, especially since there is in him not onely a repletive but a diffusive fulnes; not onely plenty, but also bounty? But alas, if we looke upon the waies and actions of men, we shall find that men seeke a fullnesse in every thing else, almost, a fulnesse in pleasure and delights, a fulnesse in honour and preferments; But this full Honey Combe is almost every where despised, but happy hee, the bent of whose heart God hath turned the right way to seeke a fullnes of Faith and Wisedome, and a fulnesse of the Holy Ghost, who cares not though he be empty of any thing else, so hee bee full of these? though a looser in other things, so a Gainer in these. Such a one hath chosen the better part which shall never be taken from him.