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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.
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Love is exceeding bountiful, apt to do much 1for the Lord, and to suffer any thing gladly. The Apostle, in the first Epistle to the Corinthians, Chapter 13. sets down many excellent properties of Love; she that loved Christ, had a box of Ointment; it may be it was the best thing she had, it may be it was all she had, yet she bestows it on Christ. So Abraham, when God would have his Son, he go's willingly about it; not formally, not out of necessity, but he rose up early to do it. It may be there will come a time when God shall need thy Wealth; it may be, thy Credit.
Love is exceeding bountifull, apt to doe much 1for the Lord, and to suffer any thing gladly. The Apostle, in the first Epistle to the Corinthians, Chapter 13. sets downe many excellent properties of Love; she that loved Christ, had a box of Oyntment; it may bee it was the best thing shee had, it may bee it was all she had, yet she bestows it on Christ. So Abraham, when God would have his Sonne, hee go's willingly about it; not formally, not out of necessity, but he rose up early to doe it. It may bee there will come a time when God shall need thy Wealth; it may be, thy Credit.
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Now, you can deny him nothing, if you love him. So, Delilah would not be persuaded that Sampson loved her, so long as he kept back any thing from her. If there be any thing so near unto thee as thy life, and it be told thee that the Lord hath need of it, he shall have it. Thou wilt say, It was a wise action of David, to pour out that water as an offering to the Lord, which he so longed for, and obtained with the hazard of the lives of three of his Worthies. As when a man hath a good bit, he will send it to his friend: so in another place, he would not offer to the Lord of that ⟨p. 26⟩