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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.
A ninth sign is not to dare to do any thing that displeaseth him. If you do a thing amiss 1that would be displeasing, you had rather that all the world should see you, then him whom you love. Now you know God always behold you: you should therefore be always alike careful. They shall fear the Lord and his goodness, Hosea 4: The Lord for his goodness; they shall fear to lose him. Above all consider when you have offended him, how you take that to heart. When you know there is a breach between you ⟨p. 43⟩and the Lord, and you can be content, and rest in it, this is a shrewd sign of no love. When man and wife shall fall out, and grieve not for it, but let it pass, not seeking to be reconciled, it is sign of cold love between them.
A ninth signe is not to dare to doe any thing that displeaseth him. If you doe a thing amisse 1that would be displeasing, you had rather that all the world should see you, then him whom you love. Now you know God alwaies behold you: you should therefore bee alwaies alike carefull. They shall feare the Lord and his goodnesse, Hosea 4: The Lord for his goodnesse; they shall feare to lose him. Above all consider when you have offended him, how you take that to heart. When you know there is a breach betweene you ⟨p. 43⟩and the Lord, and you can be content, and rest in it, this is a shrewd signe of no love. When man and wife shall fall out, and grieve not for it, but let it passe, not seeking to be reconciled, it is signe of cold love betweene them.
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