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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.
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.
First, it will cause thee to put on new apparel; a woman that loves her husband, will attire her self according as she thinks it will please him best, and give him most content, especially when she is to be married unto him, then she will have a wedding garment that may set her forth, so as he may take the better liking in her: so thou, if thou hast put off the old man which is corrupt, according to the deceivable lusts of the flesh, and hast put on the new man, which after God is created in knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness; if thou be clothed with the wedding garment ⟨p. 42⟩of Christs righteousness, and givest diligence thereunto, to make thy calling and election sure, then mayst thou be sure thou lovest him, and that he accepts of that thy love from thee.
First, it will cause thee to put on new apparrell; a woman that loves her husband, will attire her selfe according as she thinkes it will please him best, and give him most content, especially when shee is to be married unto him, then she will have a wedding garment that may set her forth, so as he may take the better liking in her: so thou, if thou hast put off the old man which is corrupt, according to the deceiveable lusts of the flesh, and hast put on the new man, which after God is created in knowledge, righteousnesse, and true holinesse; if thou be cloathed with the wedding garment