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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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Thirdly, if all Grace be not received, but a man may accept it or reject it as he will, how can it be solved, but that a man must rejoice and boast partly in himself, contrary to Paul's rule, and not wholly in the Lord, for ask the question of all that are saved, what is the reason that you are saved rather then another, their answer must needs be; I out of the liberty of my own will, did receive and use well the Grace offered, when another did not. So that according to Arminius, the Saints in heaven are not a jot more beholding to God then the damned in hell, for the offering of Grace on Gods part, was a like common to both, only he that is in heaven, may thank his own will that he chose it, when another refused it.
Thirdly, if all Grace be not received, but a man may accept it or reject it as he will, how can it be solved, but that a man must rejoyce and boast partly in himselfe, contrary to Paul's rule, and not wholly in the Lord, for aske the question of all that are saved, what is the reason that you are saved rather then another, their answer must needs be; I out of the liberty of my owne will, did receive and use well the Grace offered, when another did not. So that according to Arminius, the Saints in heaven are not a jot more beholding to God then the damned in hel, for the offering of Grace on Gods part, was a like common to both, only he that is in heaven, may thank his own wil that he chose it, when onother refused it.
They have nothing here to answer, but only that the means of Grace are dispensed by God with some disparity; But what is that when they maintain such freedom of will, that he who hath the greatest means may reject grace, and he who hath the least, may accept it?
They have nothing here to answer, but onely that the meanes of Grace are dispenced by God with some disparity; But what is that when they maintaine such freedome of wil, that he who hath the greatest meanes may reject grace, and he who hath the least, may accept it?