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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 is that which commands all in a man. It is as the rudder to a ship; all follows love. 1When a man love not the Lord, all go's from him. Now when the whole man shall go from the Lord, is not such a one worthy to be cursed, yea to be had in execration to the death?
Love is that which commands all in a man. It is as the rudder to a shippe; all followes love. 1When a man love not the Lord, all go's from him. Now when the whole man shall go from the Lord, is not such a one worthy to bee cursed, yea to bee had in execration to the death?
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If this love of the Lord be so necessary, then see what a sin it is, what an execrable thing it 1is, not to love the Lord; and what you are to think of your selves, if you love not the Lord. When Jesus Christ shall be propounded unto men, and this light is great, but men do• resist it, and not embrace the Lord: when we see this, we should have such a spirit as Paul, (for this was out of the abundance of his zeal) we should, ⟨p. 13⟩I say, be stirred against such with an holy indignation, Act. 17. Do not I hate those that hate thee? Psal. 139. yea I hate them with a perfect hate. This thou hast, that thou hatest the works of the Nicholaitans, which thing also I hate, Revelations 2. And this was a sign of Lots sincerity, that his righteous soul was grieved, and vexed with the unclean conversation of the Sodomites,