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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.
But you will say, I would love them, if I thought they were not hypocrites.1
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Take heed, thou mayest persecute Christ under 1the person of an hypocrite: what if thou strike ⟨p. 31⟩at an hypocrite in seeming? yet a true member of Christ is found wounded by thee. And when thy heart shall rise against thee, out of the side of the likeness of religion, and true piety, what would you do if the substance were there, i• he had grace in a higher measure? Christ pitches on this note above all others. It is far easier to love a holy man then to love God. For he lives amongst us, we have him continually before our eyes. Do not say then you love such as are a far off, you care not for these.
Take heed, thou mayest persecute Christ under 1the person of an hypocrite: what if thou strike ⟨p. 31⟩at an hypocrite in seeming? yet a true member of Christ is found wounded by thee. And when thy heart shall rise against thee, out of the side of the likenesse of religion, and true piety, what would you doe if the substance were there, i• hee had grace in a higher measure? Christ pitches on this note above all others. It is farre easier to love a holy man then to love God. For hee lives amongst us, wee have him continually before our eyes. Doe not say then you love such as are a farre off, you care not for these.
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