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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.
Sixthly, thou wilt linger and hang after him, as we may see in the woman of Canaan, she would not be said nay, but let him say or do what he would, she would not leave him, but she still staid by him till he had granted her suite.
Sixtly, thou wilt linger and hang after him, as we may see in the woman of Canaan, she would not be said nay, but let him say or doe what he would, she would not leave him, but she still staid by him till he had granted her suite.
Examine thy self then narrowly by these signs likewise, and when thou hast done so, and findest thy self guilty in any, or all of these particulars, then confess thy sin unto the Lord, and beg the pardon of it at his hands, leave him not till he hath heard thee, and granted thee the request of thy lips, by saying unto thy soul, I am thy salvation; and witnessing with thy spirit, that thou art his child by adoption and grace. And so as I have hitherto showed you some reasons, why he is accursed that loves not the Lord Jesus Christ, ⟨p. 21⟩ought to love him, and whereby thou mayst be incited and stirred up thereunto; for as David said in another case, the Lord is worthy to be praised, so may I say, the Lord is worthy to be beloved, and that in many respects; as
Examine thy selfe then narrowly by these signes likewise, and when thou hast done so, and findest thy selfe guilty in any, or all of these particulars, then confesse thy sinne unto the Lord, and beg the pardon of it at his hands, leave him not till he hath heard thee, and granted thee the request of thy lips, by saying unto thy soule, I am thy salvation; and witnessing with thy spirit, that thou art his child by adoption and grace. And so as I have hitherto shewed you some reasons, why he is accursed that loves not the Lord Iesus Christ, ⟨p. 21⟩ought to love him, and whereby thou mayst be incited and stirred up thereunto; for as David said in another case, the Lord is worthy to be praised, so may I say, the Lord is worthy to be beloved, and that in many respects; as