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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.
Then may we distinguish it from all sensual and carnal love; for there be many sorts of love in the world, but it is all but worldly love, not spiritual and Heavenly love.
Then may we distinguish it from all sensuall and carnall love; for there be many sorts of love in the world, but it is all but worldly love, not spirituall and Heavenly love.
First, there's a love of pity, as when we bewail a mans case, but hate his deeds, so are Malefactors beloved.
First, ther's a love of pitty, as when we bewaile a mans case, but hate his deeds, so are Malefactors beloved.
Secondly, there's a love of desire, as when the stomach desires sweet meats, the ear delightsome sounds, and the eye fine sights, &c.
Secondly, ther's a love of desire, as when the stomacke desires sweete meates, the eare delightsome sounds, and the eye fine sights, &c.
Thirdly, there's a love of complusment, when one lusts or longs after a thing with the whole heart or soul, so as he cannot subsist without it; as a woman with child lusteth and longeth after a thing she hath a mind to, which she cannot safely go without.