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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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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⟩which should cost him nothing, 2 Samuel 24. But what can I bestow upon the Lord, thou wil• say? If thou art a Preacher, preach the Gospel fo• Christ; so, every man in his calling, let him do somewhat for the Lord, and if he shall call for by life, let it not be dear unto thee. And as love is thus bountiful, so it seeks not its own, 1 Corinthians 13. And now, how f[…] will be found hat love Christ? we may well complain with Paul, All men seek their own, and •one the things of Jesus Christ, Philemon 2. Paul that loved the Lord, how was he affected? he regarded: o• himself, took not care what should become of himself, he took the care of all the Churches upon him: Who is offended, and so by taking offence, falls away, and I burn not? Art thou a Minister, and lovest the Lord Jesus, thou wilt not be so careful for a living, and that it be a convenient one, but thou wouldest preach as Paul, though for nothing; for every man might do much for the Lord, if he sought the things of the Lord; if he did plod with himself, how to bring advantage to Christ.
Now, you can deny him nothing, if you love him. So, Dalilah would not bee perswaded that Sampson loved her, so long as hee kept backe any thing from her. If there bee any thing so neere unto thee as thy life, and it bee told thee that the Lord hath need of it, he shall have it. Thou wilt say, It was a wise action of David, to poure 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