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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.
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, Ephesians 3. 17. There is a certaine love by fits which God accepts not. When men come and offer to God great promises like the waves of the Sea, as bigge as mountaines, oh they thinke they will doe much for God, But their mindes change, and they become as those high waves, which at last fall levell 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 hee should looke strangely upon thee, as if hee were never acquainted with thee, how wouldest thou esteeme of such love! If wee are now on, now off in our love, God will not esteeme of such love, and if you be not rooted in your love, you will be unstable. Let then your love bee well rooted, let the foundation be good on which it stands: now that •s on two things.1
- 11 Wherein grounded love doth stand.