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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.
First, because he hath all the glory and beauty in himself that ever thou sawest in any creature, it is in its full perfection in him; whereas it is but in part in any creature, as the light is in its full lustre and strength in the Sun; whereas the Stars and Planets have but a glimpse or beam of it, and that by participation, and not in it self, as in a fountain; and therefore the Spouse in the Canticles saith, that he is all glorious, or that all glory is in him; and this is the reason why some love him, and others love him not, because he hath manifested and revealed himself and his glory to some, and not to others, as unto Moses, Abraham, &c.
First, because he hath all the glory and beauty in himselfe that ever thou sawest in any creature, it is in its full perfection in him; whereas it is but in part in any creature, as the light is in its full lustre and strength in the Sunne; whereas the Starres and Planets have but a glimpse or beame of it, and tha by participation, and not in it selfe, as in a fountaine; and therefore the Spouse in the Canticles saith, that he is all glorious, or that all glory is in him; and this is the reason why some love him, and others love him not, because he hath manifested and revealed himselfe and his glory to some, and not to others, as unto Moses, Abraham, &c.
Secondly, he is unchangeable, there's no man but that thou shalt at some time or other, see that in him, which might make thee not to love him, but in God we cannot find any such matter, for he is Jehovah, semper idem, yesterday, to day, 1&c. there's no variableness nor shadow, &c.
Secondly, he is unchangeable, ther's no man but that thou shalt at some time or other, see that in him, which might make thee not to love him, but in God we cannot finde any such matter, for he is Iehovah, semper idem, yesterday, to day, 1&c. there's no variablenesse nor shadow, &c.