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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.
A man that sows Corn is content it should die, so as it may be quickened again and bring forth increase. And therefore Paul, though he saw the outward building of his body go to decay, he cared not, so long as he was renewed in the inner. So when thou seest thy good contained in him more then in thy self, when thou seest thy happiness laid up in him, thou wilt easily be persuaded to leave thy self to enjoy him: For thou losest nothing by losing thy self, thy whole happiness is in God.
A man that sowes Corne is content it should die, so as it may bee quickned againe and bring forth encrease. And therefore Paul, though hee saw the outward building of his body goe to decay, he cared not, so long as he was renewed in the inner. So when thou seest thy good conteined in him more then in thy selfe, when thou seest thy happinesse laid up in him, thou wilt easily bee perswaded to leave thy selfe to injoy him: For thou losest nothing by losing thy selfe, thy whole happinesse is in God.
Again, thou must be rooted and grounded in Love. This is that which the Apostle so prays for, for the Ephesians, Ephesians 3. 17. There is a certain love by fits which God accepts not. When men come and offer to God great promises like the waves of the Sea, as big as mountains, oh they think they will do much for God, But their minds change, and they become as those high waves, which at last fall level with the other waters. If a man should proffer thee great kindnesses, and thou shouldest afterwards come to him to make use of him, and he should look strangely upon thee, as if he were never acquainted with thee, how wouldest thou esteem of such love! If we are now on, now off in our love, God will not esteem of such love, and if you be not rooted in your love, you will be unstable. Let then your love be well rooted, let the foundation be good on which it stands: now that •s on two things.1
Againe, thou must be rooted and grounded in Love. This is that which the Apostle so prayes for, for the Ephesians,