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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.
First, he is our Lord. Now, to run from an ordinary Master is punishable, to rebel against an ordinary King deserves death, but he is more, our Lord and King in a more special bond. Besides, that he hath made us, and preserves us, we are his by purchase, and he hath bought us deer, he hath shed his blood for us: so that he that will not love this Lord; let him be accursed.
First, he is our Lord. Now, to run from an ordinary Master is punishable, to rebell against an ordinary King deserves death, but he is more, our Lord and King in a more speciall bond. Besides, that he hath made us, and preserves us, we are his by purchase, and he hath bought us deere, hee hath shed his blood for us: so that hee that will not love this Lord; let him be accursed.
Secondly, again he is our Saviour, and in this 1respect love is now more due to God, then in time of innocency. When Adam broke the Covenant and made shipwreck, Christ offers himself a Saviour. Now if we will not receive him, there is no more hope. He is the secunda tabula, left to us after shipwreck, which if we let go, we cannot escape eternal destruction.
Secondly, againe he is our Saviour, and in this 1respecct love is now more due to God, then in time of innocency. When Adam broke the Covenant and made shipwrack, Christ offers himselfe a Saviour. Now if wee will not receive him, there is no more hope. He is the secunda tabula, left to us after shipwrack, which if wee let goe, wee cannot escape eternall destruction.
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