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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.
Seventhly, examine thy self by this rule also, whether thou be content to do much for him, not some things, and not othersome, but whether thou have an eye to all his Commandments, and all false ways thou utterly abhor; for faith (you know) works by love, and love that proceeds from faith is not idle but operative, so that what is spoken of faith, may as truly be said of love, that its dead without works, and therefore Saint Paul professeth of himself, that he laboured more then they all, which was an argument, that he loved much because he was in labour much; and so when our Saviour asked Peter whether he loved him, he puts him to work, and sets him his task saying, feed my sheep; and last of all,
Seventhly, examine thy selfe by this rule also, whether thou be content to doe much for him, not some things, and not othersome, but whether thou have an eye to all his Commandements, and all false wayes thou utterly abhorre; for faith (you know) workes by love, and love that proceeds from faith is not idle but operative, so that what is spoken of faith, may as truely be said of love, that its dead without workes, and therefore Saint Paul professeth of himselfe, that he laboured more then they all, which was an argument, that he loved much because he was in labour much; and so when our Saviour asked Peter whether he loved him, he puts him to worke, and sets him his taske saying, feede my sheepe; and last of all,
Eighthly, whether thou wouldest not only do, but suffer much for his sake, as David, when his wife Michal laughed at him for dancing before the Ark, he was contented to bear it, because he did it to the Lord; and so the Apostles rejoiced because they wer• counted worthy to suffer for his name*. And Saint Paul likewise when the people entreated him with tears, not to go up to Jerusalem, because he should be bound, as Agabus had signified by the spirit unto him, answered them, Why do ye rent my heart, I am ready not only to be bound, but also to dye for &c.*