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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.
But this is very difficult (will some say.)1
- 1Ob.
No, it is easy. When God hath put this love into thy heart, the necessity of it may make it easy. 1Thou mayest do it, or thou canst not be saved. Indeed it is impossible for a man that hath set his heart on riches, to remove it off again of himself. And in this sense Christ speaks, when he says, It is so hard for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of heaven. But when God hath wrought this love in thee, and hath revealed to thee the emptiness and vanity of other things, it will be easy.
No, it is easie. When God hath put this love into thy heart, the necessity of it may make it easie. 1Thou mayest doe it, or thou canst not bee saved. Indeede it is impossible for a man that hath set his heart on riches, to remove it off againe of himselfe. And in this sense Christ speakes, when he sayes, It is so hard for a rich man to enter into the Kingdome of heaven. But when God hath wrought this love in thee, and hath revealed to thee the emptinesse and vanity of other things, it will be easie.
- 1Answ.
But I am not able to love the Lord above my 1self and all other things.