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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, It must be grounded on faith in his promises, revealed unto thee in his word; for without faith, it is impossible to please God, neither is it so much love, as presumption that hath not this foundation.
Secondly, it must be grounded on his person, not on his prerogatives or privileges which thou shalt get thereby, for if we love him only for his Kingdom, and not for his person (as we do when we cannot be content to suffer temptation and persecution for his sake) then he cares not for thy love, because it is self love, and not love of the Lord Jesus Christ, for then if it were, thou wouldst respect nothing else but him.
Secondly, it must be grounded on his person, not on his prerogatives or priviledges which thou shalt get thereby, for if we love him onely for his Kingdome, and not for his person (as we doe when we cannot be content to suffer temptation and persecution for his sake) then he cares not for thy love, because it is selfe love, and not love of the Lord Iesus Christ, for then if it were, thou wouldst respect nothing else but him.
Fourthly, thy love must be a diligent love, ready to reform any thing that is amiss in thee, or which may dislike him;1 which whether it be so or no, thou mayst try it by these three marks or tokens following.
Fourthly, thy love must be a diligent love, ready to reforme any thing that is amisse in thee, or which may dislike him;1 which whether it be so or no, thou mayst try it by these three markes or tokens following.