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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 4 › 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 it be of so much moment to love the LORD, that they 1are accursed that love him not, let me exhort you then to do it. The motive in the Text puts a necessity upon the duty, but to draw you on by the cords of love. See what you shall get by it. It might be a strong argument, you shall perish if you do it not: But let us see the advantages that will come to us by it.
IF it be of so much moment to love the LORD, that they 1are accursed that love him not, let mee exhort you then to doe it. The motive in the Text puts a necessity upon the duty, but to draw you on by the cords of love. See what you shall get by it. It might be a strong argument, you shall perish if you doe it not: But let us see the advantages that will come to us by it.
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I will make you to keep Gods commandments 1with ease and delight: and this is no small benefit. This love makes you go about the work, as the Ship with wind and sail. The journey must be gone: now they that have not love, must row and take a great deal more pains. This is the love of God, that you keep his commandments. And his commandments are not grievous, 1 John 3. This makes us keep the commandments, so ye may fear, you will say. Oh, but love makes them easy. It will be very hard to do them without love. How hard a task had it been for Paul to have done so much as he did, without this love• See what love makes mothers do to children. This love of Christ constrained Paul: it carried him on like wings; it compelled him to do thus and thus. And is this then nothing? yea, it shall make you abundant in the work of the Lord. For this commands all the faculties, and it winds them up to their highest pegs: and this it will make you to do out of an inward principle. There is a great difference betwixt a horse that runs freely, and one that is forced by the Spur: Shall not this then cause you to set a high price upon this love?