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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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Another means is, to remove the impediments of love, which are two especially, strangeness, 1and worldly-mindedness, Strangeness dissolves all friendship. By this means the interest of friendship may be broken off. This strangeness breeds fearfulness when we go to God, and fearfulness weakness of love: whereas boldness is the nurse of it. Herein is our love made perfect, that we have boldness in the day of the Lord Jesus. As by neglecting fellowship with the Saints, we come to lose our acquaintance we ⟨p. 68⟩had towards them: so the neglecting of maintaining our acquaintance with God, brings us quite at last to leave him. Draw near therefore to God continually, and this will increase your love to him. Be therefore oft speaking to him and hearing him speak to you.
Another meanes is, to remove the impediments of love, which are two especially, strangenesse, 1and worldly-mindednesse, Strangenesse dissolves all friendship. By this meanes the interest of friendship may be broken off. This strangenesse breeds fearefulnesse when we goe to God, and fearefulnesse weakenesse of love: whereas boldnesse is the nurse of it. Herein is our love made perfect, that we have boldnesse in the day of the Lord Iesus. As by neglecting fellowship with the Saints, we come to lose our acquaintance wee ⟨p. 68⟩had towards them: so the neglecting of maintaining our acquaintance with God, brings us quite at last to leave him. Draw neere therefore to God continually, and this will increase your love to him. Be therefore oft speaking to him and hearing him speake to you.
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Be much in prayer, and often in reading and hearing. And do not these things customarily, and untowardly, but with life and affection: go to prayer as you would go to speak with your most dear friend, whom you most of all delight to talk with. Let it be pleasant to thee to converse with him in all things; when thou hast any injury befallen thee, go and make thy cause known to him; and when any sin hath escaped thee, whereby he may be offended, give not over till reconciliation be made, and thy friendship rewarded. Look especially to thy ways, for sin alienates and restrains a man from God: therefore see that that be removed as much as may be.