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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.
Thirdly, if there be a fullness in Christ, then let us be content with him, having our hearts filled and satisfied with him.
Thirdly, if there be a fulnesse in Christ, then let us be content with him, having our hearts filled and satisfied with him.
First, in regard of spiritual things. Go we not to the brooks of Teman, the broken Cisterns, and Pe••ers packs of Rome, as Saints, Merits, Churches Treasury, &c. For if there be a fullness in Christ, hat needs not, for in him we are all complete.
First, in regard of spiritual things. Goe we not to the brookes of Teman, the broken Cesterues, and Pe••ers packs of Rome, as Saints, Merrits, Churches Treasury, &c. For if there be a fulnes in Christ, hat needs not, for in him we are all compleat.
Secondly, for Temporal things let us be content with him alone, for he is our fullness even in them also, for the better conceiving of this, we must know that the first Adam brought a general Emptiness through all the world, for though the world be full of pomps and pleasures, as John calls them, Lust of the flesh, Lust of the eye, &c. yet it is properly empty, because not full of that it should be: even as we say a well is empty, though it be full of air, because it is not full of water which should be in it: for Emptiness is not so much, Absentia Entitatis as absentia Entitatis debitae. Hence therefore not only the hearts of men, but the creatures are said to be empty, hence Solomon saith Ecclesiastes the 1. Chapter, Vanity of Vanities, all is but vanity, that is emtine••e: and