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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
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But I answer,1 is it so? hast thou no such occasions? yes, thou hast occasions enough, as when he takes away thy wife, thy child, thy friends, thy goods, thy good name &c. if then (I say) thou canst bear it patiently with Job, and say, it is the Lord giveth, and the Lord &c. or with Ely, it is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good: then thou lovest him, and yet thou must do more then that, thou must not only bear it patiently, but joyfully too, as you heard before the Apostles did; lay thy self to these rules then, and try impartially whether thou love the Lord Jesus Christ or not; and for thy further help and more infallible notice thereof, to know whether thy love to him be pure and unfeigned, or whether it be false and counterfeit, take these more particular proofs of it; for assure thy self if thou love him aright (as we touched before) that then,
But I answer,1 is it so? hast thou no such occasions? yes, thou hast occasions enough, as when he takes away thy wife, thy child, thy friends, thy goods, thy good name &c. if then (I say) thou canst beare it patiently with Iob, and say, it is the Lord giveth, and the Lord &c. or with Ely, it is the Lord, let him doe what seemeth him good: then thou lovest him, and yet thou must doe more then that, thou must not onely beare it patiently, but ioyfully too, as you heard before the Apostles did; lay thy selfe to these rules then, and try impartially whether thou love the Lord Iesus Christ or not; and forthy further helpe and more infallible notice thereof, to know whether thy love to him be pure and unfained, or whether it be false and counterfeit, take these more particular proofes of it; for assure thy selfe if thou love him aright (as we touched before) that then,