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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.
Thou must love him above all things else; Above all creatures, above that which is most 1dear unto thee, yea, above thy self. And if thou dost not so, thou lovest him but as a creature ⟨p. 75⟩which will not serve his turn. He hath done more for thee then any creature hath or can do. He hath dyed for thee, hath given himself crucified for thee, he deserves therefore more love then thy pleasures, profits, or then any friend thou hast. You are therefore to love him above all, to embrace & cleave to him chiefly, to make him wholly thine.
Thou must love him above all things else; Above all creatures, above that which is most 1deare unto thee, yea, above thy selfe. And if thou dost not so, thou lovest him but as a creature ⟨p. 75⟩which will not serve his turne. Hee hath done more for thee then any creatue hath or can doe. He hath dyed for thee, hath given himselfe crucified for thee, he deserves therefore more love then thy pleasures, profits, or then any friend thou hast. You are therefore to love him above all, to imbrace & cleave to him chiefly, to make him wholly thine.
- 12.
But how can he (you will say) be wholly mine, 1seeing so many have their parts in him?
- 1Ob.