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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.
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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?
I will make you to keepe Gods commandements 1with ease and delight: and this is no small benefit. This love makes you goe about the worke, as the Ship with wind and saile. The journey must bee gone: now they that have not love, must rowe and take a great deale more paines. This is the love of God, that you keep his commandements. And his commandements are not grievous, 1 Iohn 3. This makes us keepe the commandements, so ye may feare, you will say. Oh, but love makes them easie. It will be very hard to do them without love. How hard a taske had it beene for Paul to have done so much as hee did, without this love• See what love makes mothers doe to children. This love of Christ constrained Paul: it carried him on like wings; it compelled him to doe thus and thus. And is this then nothing? yea, it shall make you abundant in the worke of the Lord. For this commands all the faculties, and it windes them up to their highest pegs: and this it will make you to doe out of an inward principle. There is a great difference betwixt a horse that runs freely, and one that is forced by the Spurre: Shall not this then cause you to set a high price upon this love?