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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.
When you love any thing, so as it lessens your love to your husband, that is an adulterous love. 1As when thou lovest some pleasure and delight so, as it takes up the mind and hinders thee in hearing, and will not suffer thee to pray without distraction, but thy thoughts must be upon it, this love is adulterate love. Thou mayest rejoice, yet so as if thou rejoicest not. As this joy hinders not thy walking with God, so thou mayest ⟨p. 76⟩labour in thy calling with a love to it, yet so as it doth not draw away thy heart from God.
When you love any thing, so as it lessens your love to your husband, that is an adulterous love. 1As when thou lovest some pleasure and delight so, as it takes up the minde and hinders thee in hearing, and will not suffer thee to pray without distraction, but thy thoughts must be upon it, this love is adulterate love. Thou mayest rejoyce, yet so as if thou rejoycest not. As this joy hinders not thy walking with God, so thou mayest ⟨p. 76⟩labour in thy calling with a love to it, yet so as it doth not draw away thy heart from God.
- 1Answ.
But this is very difficult (will some say.)1
- 1Ob.