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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.
Consider what the Scripture says of him, 1what the Saints say of him, but most of all what he hath been to thee. See with what patience, love, and mercy, he hath carried himself towards thee, as when we converse with a man, out of his several actions we gather his disposition, and so frame an Idea of him in our mind.
Consider what the Scripture sayes of him, 1what the Saints say of him, but most of all what he hath beene to thee. See with what patience, love, and mercy, hee hath carryed himselfe towards thee, as when we converse with a man, out of his severall actions we gather his disposition, and so frame an Idea of him in our minde.
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We must humble our selves, labour to see our ⟨p. 64⟩1miserable conditions, for that will bring love. So Paul when he considered that he was the worst of all, it made him love more then them all. So Mary when she conceived how unfit she was to conceive by the Holy Ghost, she sung that song. When we look on our selves, and see our own sins and miseries, our love to Christ will be increased. When a man shall have a true apprehension of himself and his misery, and can expect nothing but death and damnation, and then Christ should come and say, no; But he shall live: this wounds a mans heart with love. Look on your secret sins, your relapses, your misery by sin, and then on Christs coming with his mercies and favours, and you cannot but love him. I say look on thy sins, weigh them with their circumstances. Think that after so many adulteries 2committed against Christ, yet that he should say, If you will come in, yet will I receive you, this might shake thee and melt thy heart. He that loveth not th[…] Lord, sees not his misery, nor that good he hath by him.