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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.
Oh,1 but for all that I am not worthy of his love, and it will be a disparagement for him to set his love upon such a one as I am.
- 1Object.Obiect.
But what is that to thee?1 if he think thee worthy; as so he doth, for he sues unto thee, what needst thou stand upon that, why shouldst thou care for any more? now this is all the dowry and duty he asks of thee, for what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, ô Israel, but that thou love him*?2
But what is that to thee?1 if he thinke thee worthy; as so he doth, for he sues unto thee, what needst thou stand upon that, why shouldst thou care for any more? now this is all the dowry and duty he askes of thee, for what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, ô Israel, but that thou love him*?2
- 1Sol.
- 2Deut. 10. 12.
And moreover, besides this, consider that it is he that first gave thee this affection, that thou shouldst love him; and that there's none other on whom thou canst better bestow it, or who more deserves it at thy hands, then he doth.