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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.
This love must be founded in faith. Therefore Ephesians 3. when the Apostle had prayed that they might be strengthened in faith, he adds this also, that they might be grounded in love. When thou art once rooted in faith, thou shalt be grounded in love. When therefore you come to believe, and consider whether Jesus Christ belong to you, or no, do it not overly and slightly, but do it thoroughly, Sift every thing to the b•an, give not over till thou art fully satisfied, till thou canst answer all objections, and rest in this persuasion, that all is most true which hath been ⟨p. 78⟩revealed to thee of the Lord Jesus Christ, and it is good for thee to rest upon it.
This love must be founded in faith. Therefore Ephesians 3. when the Apostle had prayed that they might be strengthened in faith, he addes this also, that they might bee grounded in love. When thou art once rooted in faith, thou shalt bee grounded in love. When therefore you come to beleeve, and consider whether Iesus Christ belong to you, or no, doe it not overly and slightly, but doe it thorowly, Sift every thing to the b•an, give not over till thou art fully satisfied, till thou canst answer all objections, and rest in this perswasion, that all is most true which hath been ⟨p. 78⟩revealed to thee of the Lord Iesus Christ, and it is good for thee to rest upon it.
Your love must be built upon his Person. If you love his, and not him, you will be unstable 1in your love. If thou lovest him in his Person, thou changest not, for thy love will be constant. But if thou love him for that he hath done for thee, because he hath done thee much good, and given thee many favours, and tokens of his love, and kept thee from many troubles, when he changes his dealing towards thee, thou wilt change thy love to him. Thou wilt then do as Job, receive good from the hand of the Lord, and also evil. Put case God should take from thee, and send one affliction in the neck of another, this will try thy love, whether in this case thou wilt stick close unto him. Sometimes God hides his face from his children, and writes bitter things against them: If then thou canst love him, thy love is on his Person, a constant love.