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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 5 › 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.
God desires that thou love him with all thy strength; if thou knowest much, thou must do much. Besides some things thou canst do, namely, which others cannot do without great difficulty. As some men are temperate, some patient by nature. If thou art such an one, God requires more of thee then of another, for he accounts that which thou canst do, without setting thy might to it, as nothing. It is not enough for thee to love the Lord, but thou must love him with thy might. The might of a rich man, of a Magistrate, of a Scholar, or whatsoever thou art, when thou shalt come to the Lord with a small pittance, when thou hast opportunity to do a great deal more, the Lord will not take it at thy hands. As a Landlord will not receive a small parcel, when the Tenant may pay a greater sum. Neither is this a thing indifferent, for you to do, or not to do: for God requires much of him, to whom he hath given much. He gives us all talents which he puts as prizes in our hands, which he expects we should lay out according as we have received. Paul did no work of supererogation, though he was abundant in the works of the Lord, continually setting himself about the work with his whole strength.
God desires that thou love him with all thy strength; if thou knowest much, thou must doe much. Besides some things thou canst doe, namely, which others cannot doe without great difficulty. As some men are temperate, some patient by nature. If thou art such an one, God requires more of thee then of another, for he accounts that which thou canst doe, without setting thy might to it, as nothing. It is not enough for thee to love the Lord, but thou must love him with thy might. The might of a rich man, of a Magistrate, of a Scholler, or whatsoever thou art, when thou shalt come to the Lord with a small pi•tance, when thou hast opportunity to doe a great deale more, the Lord will not take it at thy hands. As a Landlord will not receive a small parcell, when the Tenant may pay a greater summe. Neither is this a thing indifferent, for you to doe, or not to doe: for God requires much of him, to whom he hath given much. Hee gives us all talents which he puts as prizes in our hands, which he expects we should lay out according as we have received. Paul did no worke of supererogation, though he was abundant in the workes of the Lord, continually setting himselfe about the worke with his whole strength.