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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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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?
Other reasons there are, but that I hasten: as that Grace is not Grace without being received, no more then a man can be a man without reason, or a gift can be a gift without being given, for no less doth it imply contradiction to suppose it to be a grace, & yet not to be freely bestowed by God, and received by us.
Other reasons there are, but that I hasten: as that Grace is not Grace without being received, no more then a man can be a man without reason, or a gift can be a gift without being given, for no lesse doth it imply contradiction to suppose it to be a grace, & yet not to be freely bestowed by God, and received by us.
Secondly, bowing of the will is an effect of grace, and grace is an effect of the spirit. Now the spirit breaths, when, where, & in what measure it listeth. Again, if grace should spring out of our so•le, it should be but a flower of grass, for all flesh is grass, but the grace of the mediator is of a more durable nature, a flower that fades not, and a spring which is not dried up.
Secondly, bowing of the will is an effect of grace, and grace is an effect of the spirit. Now the spirit breaths, when, where, & in what measure it listeth. Againe, if grace should spring out of our sole, it should be but a flower of grasse, for all flesh is grasse, but the grace of the mediator is of a more durable nature, a flower that fades not, and a spring which is not dryed up.