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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55754	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.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.; Preston, John, 1587-1628. Two treatises, viz. The Christian freedome, and The deformed forme of a formall profession.; Preston, John, 1587-1628. Plenitudo fontis, or, Christ's fulnesse and man's emptinesse.	1644 (1644)	Wing P3307A; ESTC R219005	93,300	192

bee without this love to him Now wee come to the third thing the reasons why they are worthy to bee accursed unto the death that Love not the Lord Iesus This may seeme strange and harsh What then becomes of all unregenerated men The Apostle meanes sure such as continue in their not loving the Lord or such as have sinned against the holy Ghost But the former sence I take to bee the best neither is this any strange thing for it is one part of the Gospel There are two parts of the Gospel If you beleeve you shal be saved if you beleeve not you shal be damned Sometimes it is if you repent you shal be saved or if you doe not you shall perish so if you love you shal be saved if you love not you shal be accursed now why should hee pitch on such a frame of words to expresse their condition Because when Christ shall come and bee a suter to us when he shall woe us and offer himselfe to us and wee will have none of him then the Sonne waxes angry When he shall offer himselfe unto us and none will kisse him then hee waxes angry unto the death and they perish in the way The greatest love not answered turnes to the greatest hatred so when the Father sent to call them to the feast that were invited and they refused it this made him wrath when wee shall come to preach Christ to men when this light hid from the beginning of the world shall shine and you shall despise it and contemne it know that now is the axe laid to the roote of the tree God will beare it at your hands no longer Now if a man will not Love the Lord Iesus let him be had in execration yea let him bee accursed unto the death If a man did not keepe the Law he was to be cursed now there was a double keeping of the Law A Legall which answeres the exact rigour of the Law an Evangelicall which is an earnest endeavouring to keepe the Law and to make a mans heart as perfect as may be Now there being more mercy in this there is a greater curse on the breach of it Now Love is the fulfilling of the Law and not to love the Lord is not to keepe the Law and therefore the Curse follows it If a man love not the Lord Iesus it is because he loves something better than him It may be you love your Wealth more than Christ And are you not worthy to be cursed for it It may be you are lovers of pleasure more than of God and doth not this deserve a Curse It may bee you love the praise of men before that of God and is not this to bee accursed Adultery was punished with death and what punishment then is enough for the going a whoring from such a God after such vanties Againe Cursing belongs to Hypocrites Woe be unto you Seribes and Pharisees Hypocrites Matthew 23. Now what a man doth not out of love is done out of hypocrisie which is to doe the outward action without the inward affection as counterfeit gold hath the same stamp and colour with true gold But as wee cast away counterfeit silver and gold set it apart to destruction nayling them up that they may bee knowne so will God deale with such as serve him outwardly without this love to him Love is that which commands all in a man It is as the rudder to a shippe all followes love When a man love not the Lord all go's from him Now when the whole man shall go from the Lord is not such a one worthy to bee cursed yea to bee had in execration to the death If this love of the Lord be so necessary then see what a sinne it is what an execrable thing it is not to love the Lord and what you are to thinke of your selves if you love not the Lord. When Iesus Christ shall bee propounded unto men and this light is great but men do● resist it and not embrace the Lord when we see this we should have such a spirit as Paul for this was out of the abundance of his zeale wee should I say bee stirred against such with an holy indignation Act. 17. Doe not I hate those that hate thee Psal. 139. yea I hate them with a perfect hate This thou hast that thou hatest the workes of the Nicholaitans which thing also I hate Revelations 2. And this was a signe of Lots sincerity that his righteous soule was grieved and vexed with the uncleane conversation of the Sodomites 2 Peter 2. If you can see Christ scorned and re jected and his Word slighted and his bloud trampled on and you your selves are not moved with it you are not of Pauls spirit who speaking of some whose God was their belly whose glory was their shame of whom saith hee I have told you often and now tell you weeping that they are the enemies of the crosse of Christ Philip 3. Whence came this but out of the abundance of his love to Christ and mankinde I wish yee would all looke to your selves whether you are in this number or not of those that love not the Lord. This is such a sinne as the curse is doubled upon it And the punishment is but to shew the measure of the sinne Hee thunders not out his curse against him that opposeth the Lord or resisteth him but against him that loveth not the Lord. The Apostle as Moses gets him up to the Mount Ebal and whom doth he curse Even all such as love not the Lord Iesus This Doctrine throughly considered may let in a crevice of light to thee that now thou maist looke on thy selfe as on an execrable thing which God hates and thou maist see GOD even stretching out his power to confound thee yea thou maist see the Gospel cursing thee But what terrour is there in the preaching of the Gospel you will say O much more my Brethren than may bee expressed for the curse of the Law was not so peremptory though we have plaine words for it yet it was not without all condition But God sweares to this curse as if wee were thus cursed if wee would continue not to love him The Law is the proper instrument of humbling yet the Gospel humbles more for sinne is the matter of Humiliation And there bee sinnes against the Gospel yea greater sinnes than against the Law when thou hearest the curse of the Law Cursed be he that continueth not in every thing that is written in the booke of the Law to doe them Galathians 3. You will say you wil go to Christ he shall do it for you But when the Gospel curses such as love not Christ to whom will you goe to love God Another man cannot love for you And if you thinke this be too harsh let this verse sound oft in your eares If any man love not the Lord Iesus Christ let him be