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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.
Now if we love him, we will desire (as was said but a little before) to be joined unto him, and to have his company, for how can that woman be ⟨p. 12⟩said to love her husband that cares not for his company; so how canst thou say thou lovest the Lord Jesus Christ when thou lovest not his society?
Now if we love him, we will desire (as was said but a little before) to be joyned unto him, and to have his company, for how can that woman be ⟨p. 12⟩said to love her husband that cares not for his company; so how canst thou say thou lovest the Lord Iesus Christ when thou lovest not his society?
Again, if we love him, we will be content to have him upon any condition; for love is impulsive, the love of Christ constrains us (as the Apostle speaks) to do what it desires; yet, so as not against, but with our wills, which it inclines thereunto: now if we do not find these things in us, we do not love thee, &c.
Againe, if we love him, we will be content to have him upon any condition; for love is impulsive, the love of Christ constraines us (as the Apostle speakes) to doe what it desires; yet, so as not against, but with our wills, which it inclines thereunto: now if we doe not finde these things in us, we doe not love the, &c.
And therefore this Doctrine that he that loves him not is &c. it should teach us to consider our own conditions, how we stand affected towards him, and whether we love him or not; and we shall know it for certain whether we do, or do not, by examining our selves by these queries.