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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.
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Another condition of our love is, that it must be diligent. The Apostle commends the Thessalonians 1effectual faith and diligent love, 1 Thessalonians 1. 3. If you say you love the Lord, and yet will do nothing for him, you have not that love which God accepts. This love is operative, diligent, and not idle, and dead. We regard not a dead drug, a dead plant, we cut it up and cast it away: even so doth the Lord esteem of a dead love, and love that shows not it's life, it's diligence to obey God. This love will cause thee to put on new apparel, to adorn thy life so, ⟨p. 79⟩as thy love may take delight in thee. This will make thee careful to beautify thy self with the graces of the Spirit. See therefore whether thy love prepare thee for Christ. This love doth that which John Baptist did. It prepares men for the receiving of the Lord. If thou wilt come then before him in thy old garments; it is a sign thou lovest him not. Again, the operativeness of it, is seen in opening thy heart to him, when he offers himself unto thee. This will give thee a capable heart to entertain him, that he may dwell plentifully in thee. This doth make thee comprehend with […] Saints, what is the height, and 2breadth, and length, and depth of the love of Christ. This love is diligent in cleansing the heart, that it will suffer nothing to remain there that may be offensive to the Lord God that dwells with his people. This love therefore will suffer no sluttish corner to remain in the heart, but keeps all clean. It cleanses a man from all filthiness of flesh and Spirit, 2 Corinthians 5.
Another condition of our love is, that it must be diligent. The Apostle commends the Thessalonians 1effectuall faith and diligent love, 1 Thessalonians 1. 3. If you say you love the Lord, and yet will doe nothing for him, you have not that love which God accepts. This love is operative, diligent, and not idle, and dead. Wee regard not a dead drugge, a dead plant, wee cut it up and cast it away: even so doth the Lord esteeme of a dead love, and love that shewes not it's life, it's diligence to obey God. This love will cause thee to put on new aparrell, to adorn thy life so,