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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 spiritual Love, arising out of holy qualities, which seeks an object agreeable to it. 1And this makes a man above a man, and in some sort equal with the Angels. Men are as they love. GOD judges us by our affections, we are judged by what we love. He that loves wickedness, is truly a wicked man; he that loves holiness, is truly holy. This foundation that we have laid, though it may seem somewhat remote, yet ye shall find it of use to hold up this building, before we have done with the point.
There is a spirituall Love, arising out of holy qualities, which seekes an object agreeable to it. 1And this makes a man above a man, and in some sort equall with the Angels. Men are as they love. GOD judges us by our affections, wee are judged by what we love. He that loves wickednesse, is truly a wicked man; he that loves holinesse, is truely holy. This foundation that wee have laid, though it may seeme somewhat remote, yet ye shall find it of use to hold up this building, before wee have done with the point.
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The second thing that we have to declare, is, 1What this love of the Lord Jesus is. Now the best way to show what this is, is to show how it ⟨p. 6⟩is wrought: now for the working of it, there must be two Antecedent things which must make way for it; and they are Humiliation and Faith: for every one believes not this to be needful; and if they do believe it, yet they may be opposite to it, because it is not agreeable to their nature, That a man must be broken so, and moulded again, before he can have this love which is wrought by Humiliation and Faith. And they are wrought on this manner, when we preach the Gospel, and offer Jesus Christ unto you: for the duty of a Minister, is nothing but this, to offer Jesus Christ himself unto the world. To us a Child is borne; To us a Son is given: for, unto you is borne a Saviour, that is, Christ the Lord. This is the sum of the