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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.
Secondly, without faith in Christ, whereby he applies him to himself, and is persuaded that he is reconciled unto him, he will not yet love him, but rather hate him of the twain.
Secondly, without faith in Christ, whereby he applies him to himselfe, and is perswaded that he is reconciled unto him, he will not yet love him, but rather hate him of the twaine.
Now the manner or means of getting of both these, and so consequently of love into our hearts, is by the preaching of the word of God, by prayer, and taking him when he is offered and given unto us in the same for that end.
Now the manner or meanes of getting of both these, and so consequently of love into our hearts, is by the preaching of the word of God, by prayer, and taking him when he is offered and given unto us in the same for that end.
But now we must take Christ as an husband takes a wife, or a wife an husband, out of love to their persons, not to their portions, and then shall we be the better subject unto him; but except we be first humbled (as was before said) for our sins, and consider in what need thou standest of him, how that without him thou must perish; till then (I say) thou canst not sufficiently set by him, nor love him aright: but when thou knowest how necessary he is for thee, how all-sufficient, and affectionate he is towards thee, then thou beginnest to look at Christ as a condemned person doth at him that brings a pardon for him whom he loves and longs after, joys and rejoiceth in.
But now we must take Christ as an husband takes a wife, or a wife an husband, out of love to their persons, not to their portions, and then shall we be the better subject unto him; but except we be first humbled (as was before said) for our sinnes, and consider in what neede thou standest of him, how that without him thou must perish; till then (I say) thou canst not sufficiently set by him, nor love him aright: but when thou knowest how necessary he is for thee, how alsufficient, and affectionate he is towards thee, then thou beginnest to looke at Christ as a condemned person doth at him that brings a pardon for him whom he loves and longs after, joyes and rejoyceth in.