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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.
But let me ask thee one question;1 dost thou know what it is to be so accursed? if thou dost, consider more seriously of it, if thou dost not, know it is this; First, he curseth thy soul, and that in a double respect of Grace, Glory.
But let me aske thee one question;1 dost thou know what it is to bee so accursed? if thou dost, consider more seriously of it, if thou dost not, know it is this; First, he curseth thy soule, and that in a double respect of Grace, Glory.
- 1Sol.
First, he curseth it from the excellency of grace; that is, from the effectual and powerful working of it, so that thou shalt be never the better,1 but rather the worse for all the means of grace and salvation; and shalt go on in thine impenitency and hardness of heart, which cannot repent &c.
First, hee curseth it from the excellency of grace; that is, from the effectuall and powerfull working of it, so that thou shalt bee never the better,1 but rather the worse for all the meanes of grace and salvation; and shalt goe on in thine impenitency and hardnesse of heart, which cannot repent &c.
- 1Rom. •. 5.