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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.
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This perfection of his beauty, is that which causeth the Angels so much to admire and adore him, to be taken up in the admiration of his excellencies. Observe that in any man whom you love; there is something not to be beloved: But CHRIST is wholly delectable, there is nothing in him not fully to be beloved. See how the Spouse describes him in the Canticles, how she sets him forth in every part of him most to be desired. If you could but see the Lord. If it did but please him to show himself unto you, as he promised to show himself unto him that loves him, John 14, 21. If the Lord, I say, would give you a glimpse of himself; if by the light of the Spirit you could see him, you would acknowledge him worthy of your love. And this is the reason that some love him, and others do not, because he discovers himself to some and not to others. As he did to Moses, where let us see a little his expression of himself.
This perfection of his beauty, is that which causeth the Angels so much to admire and adore him, to bee taken up in the admiration of his excellencies. Observe that in any man whom you love; there is something not to bee beloved: But CHRIST is wholly delectable, there is nothing in him not fully to bee beloved. See how the Spouse describes him in the Canticles, how shee sets him forth in every part of him most to be desired. If you could but see the Lord. If it did but please him to shew himselfe unto you, as hee promised to shew himselfe unto him that loves him, Iohn 14, 21. If the Lord, I say, would give you a glympse of himselfe; if by the light of the Spirit you could see him, you would acknowledge him worthy of your love. And this is the reason that some love him, and others doe not, because hee discovers himselfe to some and not to others. As he did to Moses, where let us see a little his expression of himselfe.
The Lord, the Lord, Exodus 34. this is but the ⟨p. 45⟩