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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
O much more (my Brethren) than may be expressed; for the curse of the Law was not so 1peremptory; though we have plain words for it, yet it was not without all condition. But God swears to this curse, as if we were thus cursed if we would continue not to love him. The Law is the proper instrument of humbling, yet the Gospel humbles more; for sin is the matter of Humiliation. And there be sins against the Gospel, yea greater sins than against the Law: when thou hearest the curse of the Law, Cursed be he that continueth not in every thing that is written in the book of the Law; to do them, Galatians 3. You will say, you will go to Christ, & he shall do it for you: But when the Gospel curses such as love not Christ, to whom will you go to love God? Another man cannot love for you. And if you think this be too harsh, let this verse sound oft in your ears.
O much more (my Brethren) than may bee expressed; for the curse of the Law was not so 1peremptory; though we have plaine words for it, yet it was not without all condition. But God sweares to this curse, as if wee were thus cursed if wee would continue not to love him. The Law is the proper instrument of humbling, yet the Gospel humbles more; for sinne is the matter of Humiliation. And there bee sinnes against the Gospel, yea greater sinnes than against the Law: when thou hearest the curse of the Law, Cursed be he that continueth not in every thing that is written in the booke of the Law; to doe them, Galathians 3. You will say, you wil go to Christ, & he shall do it for you: But when the Gospel curses such as love not Christ, to whom will you goe to love God? Another man cannot love for you. And if you thinke this be too harsh, let this verse sound oft in your eares.
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