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Mount Ebal, or A heavenly treatise of divine love Showing the equity and necessity…Mount Ebal, or A heavenly treatise of divine love Shewing the equity and necessity…
Mount Ebal, or A heavenly treatise of divine love Showing the equity and necessity of his being accursed that loves not the Lord Jesus Christ. Together with the motives means marks of our love towards him. By that late faithful and worthy divine, John Preston, Doctor in Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolns Inn.Mount Ebal, or A heavenly treatise of divine love Shewing the equity and necessity of his being accursed that loves not the Lord Iesus Christ. Together with the motives meanes markes of our love towards him. By that late faithfull and worthy divine, John Preston, Doctor in Divinitie, chaplaine in ordinary to his Majestie, master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne.
London: printed by Marmaduke for John Stafford, 1638London: printed by Marmaduke for Iohn Stafford, 1638
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.
First, we shall have his spirit, the spirit of truth, the Comforter which shall lead us into all truth, and enable us to fulfil his Commandments, and with facility and ease, whereas else they would be grievous unto us; as for example, Saint Paul would soon have been weary of preaching and suffering so much as he did, if he had not had this love in him; and why do parents think nothing too much for their children, but because they love them? therefore it is that though they be froward and untoward, yet still they bear with them: if then we cannot find in our hearts to be quiet, until they look to the Lord, like as the needle of a compass which is touched with a Lodestone, will never stand still till it comes to the North-pole; then may this be a testimony unto us, that may distinguish us from Hypocrites, and witness to our souls that we love the Lord Jesus Christ; for they keep the Commandments of God in some sort, and abstain from some one kind of sin, but not out of love to him, nor in any obedience and conscience of his word, but in love to themselves.
First, we shall have his spirit, the spirit of truth, the Comforter which shall leade us into all truth, and enable us to fullfill his Commandements, and with facility and ease, whereas else they would be grievous unto us; as for example, Saint Paul would soone have beene weary of preaching and suffering so much as he did, if he had not had this love in him; and why doe parents thinke nothing too much for their children, but because they love them? therefore it is that though they bee froward and untoward, yet still they beare with them: if then we cannot finde in our hearts to be quiet, untill they looke to the Lord, like as the needle of a compasse which is toucht with a Loadstone, will never stand still till it comes to the North-pole; then may this be a testimony unto us, that may distinguish us from Hypocrites, and witnesse to our soules that we love the Lord Iesus Christ; for they keepe the Commandements of God in some sort, and abstaine from some one kinde of sinne, but not out of love to him, nor in any obedience and conscience of his word, but in love to themselves.
Secondly, this is a mark of thy Resurrection from the death of sin, to the life of righteousness, hereby shall ye knew that ye are translated