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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.
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If a man might accept Grace or refuse it, as he would. God were not God, because he might be crossed by his creature, and his own will should not absolutely bear rule, especially in that great matter of believing, and not believing, and in putting difference betwixt man and man in the matter of Salvation and Damnation: For according to Arminius, though God did heartily desire the conversion of such a man, and offered him all the means of Grace that could be, yet it is still in the free choice of his will to convert, or not to convert; Their only answer here is, that seeing God hath made a Decree, that man shall be a free Agent, though he do most earnestly desire the conversion of such and such men, yet because he cannot disannul his Decree, he doth, and must leave it to the liberty ⟨p. 10⟩of the Creature to do contrary to even that himself desires. But what is this else but to put God into such straits as Darius was in, who would fain have saved Daniel, but because of his Decree he could not? And if grief in Spirits and Angels be but Renisus volunt at is, a reluctancy of the will, as the Schoolmen affirm, what is this else but to attribute grief unto God, and so to detract from his Blessedness.
If a man might accept Grace or refuse it, as he would. God were not God, because he might be crossed by his creature, and his own wil should not absolutely beare rule, especially in that great matter of beleiving, and not beleeving, and in putting difference betwixt man and man in the matter of Salvation and Damnation: For according to Arminius, though God did heartily desire the conversion of such a man, and offered him al the meanes of Grace that could be, yet it is stil in the free choise of his wil to convert, or not to convert; Their onely answer here is, that seeing God hath made a Decree, that man shal be a free Agent, though he doe most earnestly desire the conversion of such and such men, yet because he cannot disa•ul his Decree, he doth, and must leave it to the liberty ⟨p. 10⟩of the Creature to doe contrary to even that himselfe desires. But what is this else but to put God into such streights as Darius was in, who would faine have saved Daniel, but because of his Decree he could not? And if griefe in Spirits and Angels be but Renisus volunt at is, a reluctancy of the wil, as the Schoolemen affirme, what is this else but to attribute griefe unto God, and so to detract from his Blessednesse.