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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.
But many a man receives him not, and yet is not thus accursed.1
- 1Ob.
Indeed we see it not many times, and it may 1be, the time of execution is not yet come. Thou mayest have Cains privilege, though thou art accursed, that none shall kill thee presently: Thou mayest enjoy thy health and wealth, and no man lay hold on thee here to hurt thee. But thou art reserved to a more solemn day of punishment. And yet the curse goes a step further, thou shalt be cursed eternally. But that thou wilt say, is a great way off; and you need not fear it yet. But consider what eternity is, what those days of darkness will be, when the Sun of comfort shall set, and never rise again upon thee. When it shall be always perfect night, and never day. When God shall open all the treasures of his wrath, and pour them with full fury upon thee, when the storm of vengeance shall never be ⟨p. 84⟩blown over, but thou shalt be overwhelmed in the midst of all misery, as the old world was in the deluge.
Indeed we see it not many times, and it may 1be, the time of execution is not yet come. Thou mayest have Cains priviledge, though thou art accursed, that none shall kill thee presently: Thou mayest enjoy thy health and wealth, and no man lay hold on thee here to hurt thee. But thou art reserved to a more solemne day of punishment. And yet the curse goes a step further, thou shalt be cursed eternally. But that thou wilt say, is a great way off; and you need not feare it yet. But consider what eternity is, what those dayes of darknesse will be, when the Sun of comfort shall set, and never rise againe upon thee. When it shall be alwayes perfect night, and never day. When God shall open all the treasures of his wrath, and powre them with full fury upon thee, when the storme of vengeance shall never bee