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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.
If you did love the Lord, ye should find an holy affection of anger and zealerising against such as offend him. Anger waits on love. Love is ⟨p. 41⟩an affection that makes forwards to the thing beloved: and if any thing stand in the way, Anger removes it hastily.
If thy heart then be not stirred when God is dishonoured, his Church spoiled, and Religion goes downward, thou lovest him not, can you endure to hear your self scandalized? No, and why? because you love your self. To see then the blood of the Lord Jesus trampled on, neglected so, as no man should regard it, to see the Saints in adversity, and not to be affected, argues that your heart is void of this love of the Lord Jesus.
If thy heart then bee not stirred when God is dishonoured, his Church spoiled, and Religion goes downward, thou lovest him not, can you endure to heare your selfe scandalized? No, and why? because you love your selfe. To see then the bloud of the Lord Iesus trampled on, neglected so, as no man should regard it, to see the Saints in adversity, and not to bee affected, argues that your heart is void of this love of the Lord Iesus.
Eli when he heard the news of Israels flight, his sons death, it must needs grieve him, but all this while, his heart was composed: But the worst news (as usually it doth) comes last. The Ark of God was taken: Then his heart was amazed, he could no longer subsist, but he falls down backward and breaks his neck. But it may be ye do not hope to attain to the grace of El•; why, look then on his daughter in law, one of the weaker sex; All that ill news moved her not so much. Oh the Ark of God was taken, that was it which she pitched upon, her son that was borne could not allay this grief.