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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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Secondly, desire the Lord to show you himself, that Jesus Christ would manifest himself unto you. And this is the greatest means of all, to work love. He that hath my Commandments, and keepeth them, is he that loveth me, and he 1shall be loved of the Father, and I will love him, and show my self unto him, when Christ shall show himself to you, when he shall open the clouds, and let you see his beauty, his glory, Oh then you cannot but love him.
Secondly, desire the Lord to shew you himselfe, that Iesus Christ would manifest himselfe unto you. And this is the greatest meanes of all, to worke love. He that hath my Commandements, and keepeth them, is he that loveth me, and hee 1shall be loved of the Father, and I will love him, and shew my selfe unto him, when Christ shall shew himselfe to you, when he shall open the clouds, and let you see his beauty, his glory, Oh then you cannot but love him.
There is a great difference betwixt the Ministers showing of you Christ, and his excellencies, and the Holy Ghosts. Though we could speak with the tongue of Angels, yet it would be but as the dead letter to Christs showing of himself. When he shall show you your vileness, his excellency, your sinfulness, his holiness, your misery, his mercies, you must needs love him. Paul when he had revealed Christ, what he could, to the Ephesians, he prays for them, that God would give them the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, Ephesians 1. 18. As who should say, the labour is all lost, if you should see no more than I preach. You love not a man till you know him your self; the Lord showed himself to Moses, David, Paul, which made them love him so much. Go therefore to the Lord, and pray as Moses Lord show me thy glory; and beg it earnestly at his hands: and that which was done extraordinarily, shall be done to thy soul. That was but a showing of the Lord by a right light, which is done more or less to every one.