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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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And if it be objected, as Arminius doth in his book upon the 7. 1to the Romans, that such as Senecae and Socrates, were much enlightened, did approve the law of God according to the inward man, and had a kind of universal common grace.
And if it be objected, as Arminius doth in his book upon the 7. 1to the Romans, that such as Senecae and Socrates, were much enlightned, did approve the law of God according to the inward man, and had a kind of universall common grace.
- 1Object.
I answer, that this privilege cannot be denied to many among 1the Heathen, that as Alchemists, though they miss the end, yet they find many excellent things by the way. So though they failed of the right end, the glory of God, yet they were not destitute of many excellent common gifts, wherein though one did go far beyond another, as Seneca beyond Nero, and so others, yet as they ⟨p. 12⟩say of sins, they do all alike pass the rule of rectitude, though some go further beyond than others, so were they all alike destitute of original Righteousness, although some more elongated from it than others, all are alike dead in sins, though some (as dead bodies) more corrupted and putrefied than others.
I answer, that this priviledg cannot be denyed to many among 1the Heathen, that as Alchimists, though they misse the end, yet they finde many excellent things by the way. So though they failed of the right end, the glory of God, yet they were not destitute of many excellent common gifts, wherein though one did go farre beyond another, as Seneca beyond Nero, and so others, yet as they