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Sun-beams of gospel-light shining clearly from several texts of Scripture, opened and applied. 1.…Sun-beams of gospel-light shining clearly from severall texts of Scripture, opened and applyed. 1.…
Sun-beams of gospel-light shining clearly from several texts of Scripture, opened and applied. 1. A heavenly [sic] treatise of the divine love of Christ. 2. The Christians freedom. 3. The deformed form of a formal profession. 4. Christs fullness, and mans emptiness. By John Preston, doctor in divinity, chaplain in ordinary to King James, Mr. of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher at Lincolns Inn.Sun-beams of gospel-light shining clearly from severall texts of Scripture, opened and applyed. 1. A heavemly [sic] treatise of the devine love of Christ. 2. The Christians freedome. 3. The deformed forme of a formall profession. 4. Christs fulnesse, and mans emptinesse. By John Preston, doctor in divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to King James, Mr. of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher at Lincolnes Inne.
London: printed for John Stafford, 1644
Sermon 3 › A HEAVENLY TREATISE OF THE DIVINE LOVE OF CHRIST.
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.
1 Cor. 16. 22. If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be had in execration, yea let him be accursed unto the death.
1 Cor. 16. 22. If any man love not the Lord Iesus Christ, let him be had in execration, yea let him be accursed unto the death.
Now because this love is so needful, we will add more signs for the trial of your selves. For we cannot be better occupied.
NOw because this love is so needfull, we will adde more signes for the triall of your selves. For we cannot be better occupied.
A sixth sig•e therefore is 1this, he that loves, will be apt to praise and speak well of that he loves, and he will exceed in it: yea, he is very glad when he hears others speak well of it. So if we did love ⟨p. 38⟩the Lord, we should be apt to speak will of him, we would be much in the speech of him. When the heart is full of this love of God in Christ, out of that abundance in thy heart, thy mouth will speak. But thou speakest but little of God, and that little is brought in by company, thou art cold in thy praising of him: why thou doest not love him, see in David, a man that loved the Lord. How much was he in the praising of him? Nay, he could not be content to do this alone, but he must have all creatures to praise him and to speak good of his Name: Even as a servant that commends his Master, invites others to serve him. This love enlarges the heart and opens the mouth. O Corinthians, our hearts are enlarged towards you, and our mouths are opened,