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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
Sermon 2 › A HEAVENLY TREATISE OF THE DIVINE LOVE OF CHRIST.
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.
1 Cor. 16. 22. If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be had in execration, yea let him be accursed unto the death.
1 Cor. 16. 22. If any man love not the Lord Iesus Christ, let him be had in execration, yea let him be accursed unto the death.
Then hence you are to consider 1your condition, and to examine your self; it may be this is thy condition, and it may be a thing you never considered of, or at least you never knew the danger of it. Therefore now see what your case is. The best service we can do to you, is to show you your estates, if ye be ⟨p. 20⟩right, to comfort you; and if ye be not right, is it not best for ye to know, while it may be amended? Thou that livest in the Church, and hast gone far, examine thy self in his, Hast thou done all out of Love? Thou hast kept thy self in good course: thou keepest the Lords day, and livest like a Christian, thou doest many things indeed. Bu let me ask thee this question, Do you all out of love? for without love all is naught. If a man should be a Martyr, (which is the highest action;) yet without this love, it were to no purpose,