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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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There are scarce any so desperate, but they would say, they would fain keep GODS commandments, were they not so hard. Now this love will make them thy delight, it will make them easy and pleasant unto thee.
There are scarse any so desperate, but they would say, they would faine keepe GODS commandements, were they not so hard. Now this love will make them thy delight, it will make them easie and pleasant unto thee.
This is the surest testimony to your own soul of all others, that you are translated from death to ⟨p. 55⟩life. An hypocrite cannot love the Lord, he may do the outward works, he may hear the Word, and be diligent in his calling. But here is the difference, he doth not this out of love. This is that distinguishing character which distinguishes a Christian; as reason doth a man. If you can find this love of Christ, this hungering after him, that tendering of the heart towards him, that your heart is to Christ, as the Iron to the Load-stone, you must rest with him. If you can say, I have no great marks of a child of God, I have many infirmities, but yet this I can say, I love the Lord; my life for thine, thy case is happy; heaven and earth may pass away, but thou canst not miss of thy happiness. What ever you have without this, can be no sound testimony unto you of your blessedness; and this alone may secure you of it.
This is the surest testimony to your owne soule of all others, that you are translated from death to ⟨p. 55⟩life. An hypocrite cannot love the Lord, hee may doe the outward workes, hee may heare the Word, and be diligent in his calling. But here is the difference, he doth not this out of love. This is that distingnishing character which distinguishes a Christian; as reason doth a man. If you can finde this love of Christ, this hungring after him, that tendring of the heart towards him, that your heart is to Christ, as the Iron to the Load-stone, you must rest with him. If you can say, I have no great markes of a childe of God, I have many infirmities, but yet this I can say, I love the Lord; my life for thine, thy case is happie; heaven and earth may passe away, but thou canst not misse of thy happinesse. What ever you have without this, can bee no sound testimony unto you of your blessednesse; and this alone may secure you of it.