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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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3. Let us be affected as Receivers, in begging grace at Gods hands by Prayer. Therefore it is said to be the Bucket of grace, and it is a true observation, that a man of much Prayer, is a man of much Grace. Now Prayer is either Private, or Public: [Private, is that wherein we express our private and particular occasions to God every day, wherein we renew Repentance & Covenants with God, of abstaining from the sins we are most prone to, and of doing the duties to which we are most unapt, in a word, that wherein we do every day set our hearts straight before God in all things. This is the very Life of Religion, and in this we must be very frequent and fervent, binding our selves with an inviolable resolution to keep a constant course in it, but of this there is no doubt. [The next is Public Prayer, of which because it is more questioned and not received by all with that Reverence it should, I will add a word or two of it, and conclude.
3. Let us be affected as Receivers, in begging grace at Gods hands by Prayer. Therefore it is said to be the Bucket of grace, and it is a true observation, that a man of much Prayer, is a man of much Grace. Now Prayer is either Private, or Publique: [Private, is that wherein we expresse our private and particular occasions to God every day, wherein we renew Repentance & Covenants with God, of abstayning from the sinnes we are most prone to, and of doing the duties to which we are most unapt, in a word, that wherein we doe every day set our hearts streight before God in al things. This is the very Life of Religion, and in this we must be very frequent and fervent, binding our selves with an inviolable resolution to keep a constant course in it, but of this there is no doubt. [The next is Publique Prayer, of which because it is more questioned and not received by all with that Reverence it should, I wil adde a word or two of it, and conclude.
That a set Form of Prayer is Lawful, much need not to be said, the very newness of the contrary opinion is enough to show the vanity and f•l•enesse of it: It being contrary to the Judgment of approved Councils, Learned Fathers, and the continual Practise of the Church.