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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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The Gospel hath two parts: if you take Christ, you shall be happy, you shall be saved. But if you will not love him and embrace him, you shall be damned. Therefore think not that there is nothing but honey in it: yea there is a sting that follows it, if it be neglected: Ministers are not to go a begging in offering the Gospel, but are as Ambassadors of the Lord of Heaven. If men will receive our message, so it is, otherwise the dust which we shake off from our feet, shall be a witness against you, that so God will shake you off. God will not have his Gospel refused, his Son despised; and therefore he counsels us, to kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and we perish all in his wrath, Psalm 2. Though he be a Lamb, and have behaved himself meekly amongst us, yet if we provoke him, we shall know that he can show himself a Lyon. If he be not entertained in the still voice, he will come in fire, in a wind that shall rend the rocks in sunder. Thus he describes himself, One that hath feet like burning brass, out of whose mouth proceeds ⟨p. 85⟩a fiery sword, Revelation 1. Moses went first to Mount Gerizim, to bless the people; and if that would not move them, he go's up to Mount Ebal, and thence curses them: so the Apostle before exhorts & persuades them to the love of Christ, but if they will not embrace him on fair terms, he tells them what shall follow, they must be accursed.
The Gospell hath two parts: if you take Christ, you shall be happy, you shall be saved. But if you will not love him and imbrace him, you shall be damned. Therefore thinke not that there is nothing but hony in it: yea there is a sting that followes it, if it be neglected: Ministers are not to goe a begging in offering the Gospell, but are as Ambassadors of the Lord of Heaven. If men will receive our message, so it is, otherwise the dust which we shake off from our feet, shall be a witnesse against you, that so God will shake you off. God will not have his Gospel refused, his Son despised; and therefore he counsels us, to kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and wee perish all in his wrath, Psalm 2. Though hee be a Lamb, and have behaved himselfe meekly amongst us, yet if wee provoke him, wee shall know that he can shew himselfe a Lyon. If hee be not entertained in the still voice, he will come in fire, in a wind that shall rend the rockes in sunder. Thus he describes himselfe, One that hath feet like burning brasse, out of whose mouth proceeds