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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.
There is a Love of dependence, when we love him on whom we depend; and thus we love God, when we look upon him, as on whom all our good depends: so that we love him more than our selves, because our good depends upon him, more than on our selves.
There is a Love of dependance, when wee love him on whom we depend; and thus we love God, when wee looke upon him, as on whom all our good depends: so that we love him more than our selvs, because our good depends upon him, more than on our selves.
We will add the qualities of Love; there is 1a natural Love, planted in us by nature: as the of parents to their children, of one man to another: this love is indifferent, not good in it self; good no otherwise, than directed on a good object.
Wee will adde the qualities of Love; there is 1a naturall Love, planted in us by nature: as the of parents to their children, of one man to another: this love is indifferent, not good in it selfe; good no otherwise, than directed on a good object.
- 11 The qualities of Love.
There is a sinful Love, arising from sinful habits, 1which seek things convenient to it. As nothing is better than love on a right object, so nothing worse than love on a wrong object. As natural Love puts us in the condition men: so this sinful Love makes men worse than beasts, and equals them with the Devil.