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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 it is by Arminius, to what end then 1are Exhortations and Threatenings, the propounding of Punishments, and Rewards, if it be not in our power to accept Grace, & refuse it as we will.
And if it be objected, as it is by Arminius, to what end then 1are Exhortations and Threatnings, the propounding of Punishments, and Rewards, if it be not in our power to accept Grace, & refuse it as we wil.
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I answer, that as the rain although it fall aswell upon Rocks and Heaths, as upon Valleys and Fruitful places, yet no man asketh 1to what end is the first and latter rain; So Exhortations & Admonitions though they fall aswell upon the Reprobates, and those that are desperately wicked, as upon those that are docible and capable of better things, it is to no less folly to ask to what end they are, seeing as the rain, so they are to many beneficial and useful.
I answer, that as the raine although it fal aswel upon Rockes and Heathes, as upon Vallies and Fruitfull places, yet no man asketh 1to what end is the first and latter raine; So Exhortations & Admonitions though they fal aswel upon the Reprobates, and those that are desperately wicked, as upon those that are docible and capable of better things, it is to no lesse folly to aske to what end they are, seeing as the raine, so they are to many beneficial and useful.
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