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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 what if I take not the Lord at this instant? 1I hope this curse will not befall me.
- 1Ob.
It is true, we cannot say so; for while this time lasts, we are still commanded to offer 1Christ; yet there will come a time, when there will come forth a Decree which shall never be revoked. Take heed therefore, for this is very dangerous. The Lord will not suffer his Gospel to be abused, or neglected: when once the Husbandmen refused the Son, they were presently cast out of the vineyard, Mat. 21. This offends God more than any sin that we can commit. To refuse Christ offered, is worse than drunkenness, theft, adultery, or the like, which men count the grossest sins. My people would none of me, therefore I gave them up to their own hearts lusts. This refusing him, made him swear that they should never enter into his rest. As the Gospel offers greater favour than the Law; so, swifter damnation attends the neglect of it. My brethren, take heed that you receive not the grace of God in vain. While it is called to day, harden not your hearts; yea, take heed of refusing it now. For, ⟨p. 86⟩you know not whether this offer may ever be made you again; and if it be, thou knowest not whether thou shalt have the grace to receive it, or no. Know, that the same Gospel is a savour of life unto life, to such as receive it; but unto the others, of death unto everlasting death.
It is true, we cannot say so; for while this time lasts, wee are still commanded to offer 1Christ; yet there will come a time, when there will come forth a Decree which shall never be revoked. Take heed therfore, for this is very dangerous. The Lord will not suffer his Gospel to be abused, or neglected: when once the Husbandmen refused the Son, they were presently cast out of the vineyard,