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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.
Oh but (thou wilt say), I am not worthy of so great love,1 for I am a sinner, disobedient, and rebellious.
- 1Object.
But I answer, what dost thou tell him of that? what if thou wert the chief of sinners;1 he knew that before he gave thee his Son; and he gave him unto thee the rather, because he knew thou wast so, for he justifies the ungodly; that is, those that condemn and judge themselves to be so; so that if thou wilt but believe in him, and embrace him, it is as much as he desires of thee.
But I answer, what dost thou tell him of that? what if thou wert the chiefe of sinners;1 he knew that before he gave thee his Sonne; and he gave him unto thee the rather, because he knew thou wast so, for he justifies the ungodly; that is, those that condemne and judge themselves to be so; so that if thou wilt but beleeve in him, and imbrace him, it is as much as he desires of thee.
- 1Answ.
But thou wilt say,1 it may be he is affected to this or that person, and not to me: to which I answer again.