A55754:447
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.
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Now I beseech you take not this Exhortation in vain, for there is nothing more effectual to heal a rebellious disposition, to instil saving Grace, to cause a sinner to change his course, then to be fully persuaded that he shall be received to mercy, and that his sins shall be forgiven in Christ: Even as the Thieves, while 1the […]e and Cry is after him, never returns willingly: Rebels and Pirates whiles the Proclamation of Rebellion is out against them, never come in: But if there be a Proclamation of pardon, yea and of some great Advancement, if that be believed once, that, and noting else causeth them to come in, and to become faithful and loyal Subjects. Therefore let this fullness of mercy in Christ be an effectual motive to us all, to come in to lay down the arms of Rebellion, to choose God for our good, and to give up our selves wholly to him, to serve him with perfect hearts & willing minds, all our days.
Now I beseech you take not this Exhortation in vaine, for there is nothing more effectual to heale a rebellious disposition, to instil saving Grace, to cause a finner to change his course, then to be fully perswaded that he shal be received to mercy, and that his sins shalbe forgiven in Christ: Even as the Theese, while 1the 〈…〉e and Cry is after him, never returnes willingly: Rebels and Pyrates whiles the Proclamation of Rebellion is out against them, never come in: But if there be a Proclamation of pardon, yea and of some great Advancement, if that be beleived once, that, and noting else causeth them to come in, and to become faithfull and loyall Subjects. Therefore let this fulnesse of mercy in Christ be an effectuall motive to us all, to come in to lay down the armes of Rebellion, to choose God for our good, and to give up our selves wholly to him, to serve him with perfect hearts & willing minds, all our dayes.
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