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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
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.
Love other things, and they put thee to many a trouble; they hinder thee in thy prayers, and ⟨image 8⟩all thy service to God, because thou dost always think, and dote upon them: But love thy Lord, and he bringeth into thy heart and conscience, peace which passeth all understanding. The more thou lovest him when thou prayest, the more he gives thee to thy self; yea, the more he gives thee to himself, and fills thee with holy comfort. Love othe• things, and they are without thee still; thou canst never bring them to any more intimate communion, save that which is common to thee with Epicures: But love thy Lord, and he dwelleth in thee, and thou in him, for he is Love.
Love other things, and they put thee to many a trouble; they hinder thee in thy prayers, and ⟨image 8⟩all thy service to God, because thou dost alwaies think, and dote upon them: But love thy Lord, and hee bringeth into thy heart and conseience, peace which passeth all understanding. The more thou lovest him when thou prayest, the more hee gives thee to thy selfe; yea, the more he gives thee to himselfe, and fills thee with holy comfort. Love othe• things, and they are without thee still; thou canst never bring them to any more intimate communion, save that which is common to thee with Epicures: But love thy Lord, and he dwelleth in thee, and thou in him, for he is Love.
Love other things, and they seek at thy hands a profit and gain to themselves, or else they perish in thy love. They will take advantage upon thy love to work upon thee for their own perfections: But love thy Lord, and he seeks thy profit and perfection: he always endures to glorify himself in doing thee good. Love other things, and most times they will deceive thee, they are often liars, variable, and inconstant: But love thy Lord, and thou shalt be assured: he is most true, and unchangeable, and thou mayest build upon him, that he will not fail thee nor forsake thee.