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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
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Thirdly, thou shalt get by this thy love to him, for when thou givest him thy heart, he will give it thee again, he will only alter the object, but let thee keep the affection still, only it shall be better then it was before, he will purify it from all its corruptions, and cleanse it from all its sins: Nor shall this be any thing out of thy way, it shall be as much for thy profit as ever it was before, for when thy heart is set to keep his Commandments, when it inclines to his statutes, (as so he will incline it) then whatsoever thou dost, 1it shall prosper: so that as its said of the Sabbath, that it was made for man; that is, for mans good; so may we say the same of all the rest of the Commandments, that it is made for man; that is, for his good and benefit,2 and therefore the promise of life and happiness is made to all alike.
Thirdly, thou shalt get by this thy love to him, for when thou givest him thy heart, he will give it thee againe, he will onely alter the object, but let thee keepe the affection still, onely it shall be better then it was before, he will purifie it from all its corruptions, and cleanse it from all its sins: Nor shall this be any thing out of thy way, it shall be as much for thy profit as ever it was before, for when thy heart is set to keepe his Commandements, when it inclines to his statutes, (as so hee will incline it) then whatsoever thou dost, 1it shall prosper: so that as its said of the Sabbath, that it was made for man; that is, for mans good; so may we say the same of all the rest of the Commandements, that it is made for man; that is, for his good and benefit,2 and therefore the promise of life and happinesse is made to all alike.