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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.
The Lord, the Lord, Exodus 34. this is but the ⟨p. 45⟩Casket, the Jewell is within. If Gods Spirit should open these words unto you, you would see him the fairest of ten thousand, Jehovah, Jehovah. Of every creature (you may say) somewhat it was that it is not, and somewhat it is that it will not be. But God is unchangeable Jehovah, in him is no alteration, he is not a friend to day, and none to morrow, and such a friend you would desire to choose: as this Name signifies, his immutable being, so his omnipotency, he is Almighty. Now what a Lodestone of love is this? All the power in men, enableth them but to do some things: as patience enables them to bear injurious acts; But the Lord hath all abilities, all ornaments, all excellencies, all is comprehended in this Almighty: So that well may such a friend be desired.
The Lord, the Lord, Exodus 34. this is but the ⟨p. 45⟩Casket, the Iewell is within. If Gods Spirit should open these words unto you, you would see him the fairest of ten thousand, Iehovah, Iehovah. Of every creature (you may say) somewhat it was that it is not, and samewhat it is that it will not be. But God is unchangeable Iehovah, in him is no alteration, he is not a freind to day, and none to morrow, and such a friend you would desire to chuse: as this Name signifies, his immutable being, so his omnipotency, he is Almightie. Now what a Loadstone of love is this? All the power in men, enableth them but to doe some things: as patience enables them to beare injurious acts; But the Lord hath all abilities, all ornaments, all excellencies, all is comprehended in this Almightie: So that well may such a friend bee desired.
True, will the poor soul say, he is well worth 1