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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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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.
Be much in prayer, and often in reading and hearing. And doe not these things customarily, and untowardly, but with life and affection: goe to prayer as you would goe to speake with your most deare friend, whom you most of all delight to talke with. Let it be pleasant to thee to converse with him in all things; when thou hast any injury befallen thee, goe and make thy cause knowne to him; and when any sinne hath escaped thee, whereby he may be offended, give not over till reconciliation be made, and thy friendship rewarded. Looke especially to thy wayes, for sinne alienates and restraines a man from God: therefore see that that bee removed as much as may be.
Worldly mindedness also hinders the love of God. This is the uncircumcision of the heart. Hence is that, the Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, that thou mayest live. And until the heart be circumcised, it is filled with the love of the World, so that he cannot love the Lord, at least, with all his heart, as he ought.
Worldly mindednesse also hinders the love of God. This is the uncircumcision of the heart. Hence is that, the Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, that thou mayest live. And untill the heart be circumcised, it is filled with the love of the World, so that hee cannot love the Lord, at least, with all his heart, as hee ought.