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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.
Strengthen thy faith: for the stronger thy faith is, the greater will thy love be. A strong 1hand rids more work then a weak. Take a man excellent in all gifts whom thou much admirest, yet if he loved not thee, thou wouldest not much care for such an one: so though thou feest much excellency in Christ, yet thou canst not love him, unless thou hast a persuasion that he loves thee. But how shall I know that he will love me? he hath made it known that he is thine, and that he ⟨p. 65⟩is willing, to become thy familiar friend; GOD hath given him in marriage to thee. To us a child 2is borne, to us a son is given. And Christ himself hath shown sufficiently his love unto thee. He hath spent his blood for thee, yea, he continually speaks to his Father in thy behalf, yea, he sues to thee for love, he loves thee first, and sues to thee, as the man doth to the woman; thou mayest be persuaded therefore that he loves thee.
Strengthen thy faith: for the stronger thy faith is, the greater will thy love be. A strong 1hand rids more worke then a weake. Take a man excellent in all gifts whom thou much admirest, yet if hee loved not thee, thou wouldest not much care for such an one: so though thou feest much excellency in Christ, yet thou canst not love him, unlesse thou hast a perswasion that he loves thee. But how shall I know that he will love me? hee hath made it knowne that he is thine, and that he ⟨p. 65⟩is willing, to become thy familiar friend; GOD hath given him in marriage to thee. To us a child 2is borne, to us a sonne is given. And Christ himselfe hath shewne sufficiently his love unto thee. He hath spent his bloud for thee, yea, he continually speakes to his Father in thy behalfe, yea, hee sues to thee for love, he loves thee first, and sues to thee, as the man doth to the woman; thou maist be perswaded therefore that he loves thee.