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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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I beseech you therefore let us be exhorted to take the opportunity, and not be like to those whom Isaiah complains of, who like bulrushes bow down their heads for a day, while some storm of inward or outward trouble is upon them, but when a fair Sun-shine day comes to dry it up again, lift up their heads as upright as ever before.
I beseech you therefore let us be exhorted to take the opportunity, and not be like to those whom Isayah complaines of, who like bulr•shes bow down their heads for a day, while some sto•me of inward or outward trouble is upon them, but when a faire Sun-shine day comes to dry it up againe, lift up their heads as upright as ever before.
If a man would sit down and call his thoughts together but for one half hour, and consider this seriously, I have but a little time to live here, it is another place where I must live for all eternity, and it shall be with me for all this eternity, as I spend this short time. I say if this were thoroughly considered, I wonder that any thing else should take up the intentions and thoughts of a mans heart, but only how to make sure his salvation. But alas we are robbed of our selves through worldly delights, and do magno conaru, magnas nugas agere, and so we spend our lives. But if we would not have with the Merchant, Fortunam rudentibus ap•am, that is, an estate hanging upon ropes, and depending upon uncertainties, especially seeing grace whence repentance proceedeth, is as you see received, and not in our power. But we mistake repentance, and that is the cause we defer it, it is not as it is commonly thought, a sorrow for our sins only, nor a n••ere leaving of sins out of fear of hell, and desire to be said, which ⟨p. 14⟩a man may do out of the strength of natural wisdom, providing for his own safety, but it is a much different thing, viz. putting life into a dead man: