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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.
Doest thou love his company? Love is seen in nothing more than this. Doest thou love his 1presence, to walk with God? Doest thou observe all his dealings to thee from morning to night, refer all still unto him? Art thou still in dealings with him? Still thou hast something to do with him; there is not an hour that passes thee, wherein thou hast not recourse unto him: when Christ takes a man unto himself, he comes and sups with him, Apocalypse 3. Hast thou then this communion with Christ? Doth he sup with thee, dwell with thee? Now, communion stands in speaking to another, and in hearing him speak to us. When you pray, then pray you formally, as one that is glad when the duty is over? oh if you loved the Lord, you would never be better, than when you are at prayer. And you would go to prayer, as you would go to ⟨p. 23⟩speak with your dearest friend. So do you hunger after the Word, which is the character of Christ his Will, his Love-letter? Put the case a Woman should have her Husband at the East-Indies, how welcome would a letter be to her from him? Therefore Moses that loved God, desired to see his glory, Exodus 33. to know him better, to grow more acquainted with him. Now, that the Word doth to thee, it shows to thee that glory which Moses saw.
Doest thou love his company? Love is seene in nothing more than this. Doest thou love his 1presence, to walke with God? Doest thou observe all his dealings to thee from morning to night, refer all still unto him? Art thou still in dealings with him? Still thou hast something to doe with him; there is not an houre that passes thee, wherein thou hast not recourse unto him: when Christ takes a man unto himselfe, hee comes and sups with him, Apocalypse 3. Hast thou then this communion with Christ? Doth hee sup with thee, dwell with thee? Now, communion stands in speaking to another, and in hearing him speake to us. When you pray, then pray you formally, as one that is glad when the duty is over? oh if you loved the Lord, you would never be better, than when you are at prayer. And you would goe to prayer, as you would goe to ⟨p. 23⟩