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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 the Lord? then thou lovest the Saints. This is a true and common note, 1every one hath it in his mouth, 1 John 3. If you love the Lord, you will love the brethren. Dost thou then love the Lord, and hate evil in other men? If you love not your brother whom you see daily, how can ye love the Lord whom ye never see? God is remote from our eyes that we cannot behold him. Now his image is stamped upon the Saints, and so is visible to us. We see them daily, they converse with us. Now, if we love not them, we cannot love God. For, the love of Christ is that holy disposition which you conceive in your mind of him: Now, the like for kind is in the Saints. As those that do the lusts of the Devil, are of his disposition, that is, are as it were little Devils: so in the Saints, there is the same disposition, the same mind that was in Christ Jesus for kind.
Doest thou love the Lord? then thou lovest the Saints. This is a true and common note, 1every one hath it in his mouth, 1 Iohn 3. If you love the Lord, you will love the brethren. Dost thou then love the Lord, and hate evill in other men? If you love not your brother whom you see daily, how can yee love the Lord whom yee never see? God is remote from our eyes that wee cannot behold him. Now his image is stamped upon the Saints, and so is visible to us. Wee see them daily, they converse with us. Now, if we love not them, we cannot love God. For, the love of Christ is that holy disposition which you conceive in your minde of him: Now, the like for kinde is in the Saints. As those that doe the lusts of the Devill, are of his disposition, that is, are as it were little Devils: so in the Saints, there is the same disposi•ion, the same minde that was in Christ Iesus for kinde.
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