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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.
How ever it go with corn, wine and oil, th i• prayer is, Lord lift thou up the light of thy 1countenance on us. If a mans turn were served, so he might be freed from hell, and made happy, and then love him, this man loves not the Lord. That which Absalom did in hypocrisy, we are to do in truth, Sam. 14. What avails it me that I enjoy (saith he) my lands, and that I live in Jerusalem, so long as I may not see the Kings face? So if God should give you abundance of all your hearts can wish, free you from the fire of hell, yet this will not content you without you see his face, if you have this love. And thus if Gods people humble themselves and seek his face, he 2will hear in heaven, and have mercy on them: when a people are oppressed and in captivity, they may come to the Lord and humble themselves, but for their own liberty, they may seek their own good in it, as they, Howled on their 3beds for corn, wine, and oil: but Gods people ⟨p. 30⟩seek his face, his favour; examine thy self then, if when his countenance is clouded, and he hides his face, thou art impatient, thou canst not bear it, then thou mayest assure thy self that thou lovest the Lord. Thus did David Psal. 51. when he wanted the sense of Gods favour, how did he complain he would have no denial, and therefore never gives over entreating till he is answered.
How ever it goe with corne, wine and ovle, th i• prayer is, Lord lift thou up the light of thy 1countenance on us. If a mans turne were served, so he might be freed from hell, and made happy, and then love him, this man loves not the Lord. That which Absalom did in hypocrisie, wee are to doe in truth, Sam. 14. What avails it mee that I enjoy (saith he) my lands, and that I live in Ierusalem, so long as I may not see the Kings face? So if God should give you abundance of all your hearts can wish, free you from the fire of hell, yet this will not content you without you see his face, if you have this love. And thus if Gods people humble themselves and seeke his face, hee