A55754:449
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.
The second part I will as briefly dispatch, and not meddle with the third, left I be tedious.
The second part I wil as briefely dispatch, and not meddle with the third, left I be tedious.
Of his Fullness we have all received
Of his Fulnes weo have al received
Whence the second Point is [That all Grace is received] For as all Stars shine in the light of the Sun; So do all the Saints through grace received. What else distinguished John from Judas Simon Peter, from Simon Magus? but only Christ, who shone upon one, and not upon another, when they sate both alike in darkness, and in the shadow of death.
WHence the second Point is [That al Grace is received] For as al Stars shine in the light of the Sun; So doe al the Saints through grace received. What else distinguished Iohn from Iudas Simon Peter, from Simon Magus? but onely Christ, who shone upon one, and not upon another, when they sate both alike in darknesse, and in the shadow of death.