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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.
Sermon I.
1 COR. 16. 22. If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema, Maranatha, Let him be had in execration, or let him be excommunicated unto the death.
1 COR. 16. 22. If any man love not the Lord Iesus Christ, let him bee Anathema, Maranatha, Let him bee had in execration, or let him be excommunicated unto the death.
These words have little dependence on the words before going; which are these, The salutation of me Paul with my own hands. It was the custom of the Apostle, that the Church might not deceived with counterfeit Epistles to set his name to those he wrote: And that he would not do alone, but did always add some gracious sentence, as commonly this, The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. And there he adds that sentence, which so suits with the spirit and mind of S. Paul, that it might easily show it to be S. Pauls Epistle; a man so abounding in the love of the Lord, as he is zealous against such as love him not. We shall find, in ⟨p. 2⟩all S. Pauls preaching, that faith and love, were that which he drave at; those two roots, those two pillars on which the Church is built, from whence all the rest flow: Hereby teaching Ministers what they should beat at, what should be their aim: A•d so people are taught hence what to do: they must water these two roots well, and then the branches will flourish. Our wisdom should be to look to these; for these being strong, all will be strong: If these be weak, all will be weak If any man love not the Lord Jesus, let him be had in execration; yea, accursed unto the death. His scope is to commend love to the Corinthians. If I should cast about me to commend some special thing unto you now at the closing up of my Epistle, I know nothing better then this Love of the Lord Jesus. And there are two reasons why you should love him, first ye were in a miserable and accursed condition if you do it not. And the second is from the object you are to love, he is the Lord and so may well challenge your love; Jesus your Saviour, and so hath well deserved it: so that we have here an exhortation, and two reasons of it. The words have little difficulty. Somewhat I will say of the two words in the original Anathema & Maranatha. The word Anathema signifies the separation of a thing unto destruction. Maranatha is a Syrian word, signifying cursing; taken from the Hebrew root, and signifies more then Anathema. The Apostle doubles this curse to show the greatness of the punishment It is a great punishment which he would express in two languages. The general doctrine we will observe