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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

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 But you will say I love them well enough doe you so Doe you delight then in their company Are you in your naturall element when you are among them This you will doe by a naturall instinct if you love the Lord Iesus Againe doe you hate sinne in all the same ground will cause you to hate sinne which moves you to love grace Doe you then hate sinne as in dislike and distate in regenerate men and their societie bee it never so pleasant so profitable But what would you have mee to hate men then no but hate their sinnes and love them with the love of pittie Let thy heart melt to consider their case and desire their good love them but so as it may stand with the love of the Lord Iesus Looke then to your selves and examine your selves by these markes see that you have this love if yee have it not you are among the number of these men which are to bee accursed unto death But I hope I deserve not so bad my nature I hope is not so vile as not to love the Lord Iesus Nay thou hatest him doe you not wish that there were no such Lord to come to judgement that thou mightest live as thou pleasest Couldest thou not wish that thou mightest ever here enjoy these pleasures and never come at him Now to wish that one were not what is it but to hate him Quem metuunt oderunt Wee say men hate him whom they stand in feare of Doe you then feare and quake at his comming surely then you are haters of God But I hope we are not haters of God Why this is not so ●●ra●ge The Apostle tels us that there were such as loved their pleasures more then God 2 Tim. 3. yea and that there were haters of God also Rom. 1. 30. And in the second commandement God ●hreatens such as hate him Exo. 20. and thou maiest bee one of them For if you cannot endure his Company if your heart rise against his image it is plaine you are a hater of God What you would make me out of love with my selfe What doe you preach damnation to me it may be all these signes are not in me Am I then so accursed Yes we doe preach damnation to all that are in such a case and wee are to threaten the curse And thus the Lord esteemes of thee and it were good that you thought so of your selves in time It is the Ministers dutie to seperate the precious from the vile to distinguish betweene men To shew you truely what your conditions are Therefore apply this Text unto your selves every one If I love not the Lord Iesus I am an accursed man yea to bee had in execration to the death which might make you loath your selves in dust and ashes It might make sinne alive in you and bring you to love this Iesus So endeth the second Sermon A HEAVENLY TREATISE OF THE DIVINE LOVE OF CHRIST Sermon II. BY IOHN PRESTON DD. Matt. 22. 37 38. This is the first and great Commandement thou shalt Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart Psal. 31. 26. Love the Lord O allye his Saints LONDON Printed by Thomas Paine for Iohn Stafford 1640. A HEAVENLY TREATISE OF THE DIVINE LOVE OF CHRIST Sermon III. 1 Cor. 16. 22. If any man love not the Lord Iesus Christ let him be had in execration yea let him be accursed unto the death NOw because this love is so needfull we will adde more signes for the triall of your selves For we cannot be better occupied A sixt sig●e therefore is this hee that loves will bee apt to praise and speake well of that he loves and he will exceed in it yea he is very glad when he heares others speake well of it So if we did love the Lord we should be apt to speake will of him we would be much in the speech of him When the heart is full of this love of God in Christ out of that aboundance in thy heart thy mouth will speak But thou speakest but little of God and that little is brought in by company thou art cold in thy praising of him why thou doest not love him see in David a man that loved the Lord. How much was hee in the praising of him Nay he could not bee content to doe this alone but hee must have all creatures to praise him and to speake good of his Name Even as a servant that commends his Master invites others to serve him This love enlarges the heart and opens the mouth O Corinthians our hearts are enlarged towards you and our mouthes are opened 2 Corinthians 6. 11. This is an argument that our hearts are enlarged that we abound in love when our mouthes are opened So that thy heart is straightened towards God if thy mouth bee not open to his praises But I cannot speake as other men I am no scholler if I had elocution gifts learning I could thus speake This is no excush it is the nature of love to make men eloquent the passions make eloquent As we say Pectus facit eloquentes magna pars eloquentiae constra animo Are you hen apt to speake well of God But this you will say is but a small matter who doth not Oh yes wee are wanting in that manner of speaking of him which love requires We doe not speake of him with that affection that sensiblenesse that may enflame others to love him See the Spouse in the Canticles Oh saith she My love is fairer then ten thousands And thus will the soule that loves God doe It will tell of his mercies abroad It will speake good of his Name And that not as a duty onely but as a thing in which it takes especiall delight Love followes the judgement you cannot love the Lord but you will thinke well of him See then what thy speeches are concerning him see if thy heart doe nimbly indite and thy tongue bee as the penne of a readie Scribe Psalme 45. Consider whether you endeavour to doe any thing for Christ without expostulating and indenting with him Whether you are ready to doe all things freely to him without consulting with another about it Amicitia non est revocanda ad calculos A friend must not bee strict in taking his account for then hee plaies but the Huckster he doth but buy and sell. When thou art trying and expostulating then whether such a duty be necessary or no whether another will not serve the turne this is a signe thou dost want love A Minister that hath this love when he is to take a Living will not so much enquire what reward

20. Thou that knowest my heart and the secret turnings of it canst beare me witnesse that I love thee Doest thou love his company Love is seene in nothing more than this Doest thou love his presence to walke with God Doest thou observe all his dealings to thee from morning to night refer all still unto him Art thou still in dealings with him Still thou hast something to doe with him there is not an houre that passes thee wherein thou hast not recourse unto him when Christ takes a man unto himselfe hee comes and sups with him Apocalypse 3. Hast thou then this communion with Christ Doth hee sup with thee dwell with thee Now communion stands in speaking to another and in hearing him speake to us When you pray then pray you formally as one that is glad when the duty is over oh if you loved the Lord you would never be better than when you are at prayer And you would goe to prayer as you would goe to speake with your dearest friend So do you hunger after the Word which is the character of Christ his Will his Love-letter Put the case a Woman should have her Husband at the East-Indies how welcome would a letter bee to her from him Therefore Moses that loved God desired to see his glory Exodus 33. to know him better to grow more acquainted with him Now that the Word doth to thee it shewes to thee that glory which Moses saw If you love the Lord Holy-daies and Sacrament-daies would bee as Feast-daies and Wedding-daies for then you meete with God more neerely Doe you then put off your comming to the Sacrament and would you not come neere it for the speech of some and yet will you say that you love the Lord where love is there is delight A man delights in his fellowship whom hee loves whom ye have not seene yet ye love him yea whom though ye see him not yet yee beleeve and joy with joy unspeakable and glorious Doe you then delight in his presence for delight will be in the injoying of that wee love joy followes love To delight in a mans company is that marke of love which cannot be dissembled Dost thou then love the appearing of the Lord Iesus 2 Thessalonians 3. If one should bring you newes that you must goe to the Lord or he would come to you to morrow would this be acceptable newes to you Doth he bring good tidings If a Spouse should have her betrothed husband beyond the Seas and should heare of his returne if she should say that it were the worst newes that could come to her would you thinke that she lov'd him No there could not come a more welcome Messenger to thee than such a one if thou didst love the Lord. Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord for so saith the Spirit from henceforth they rest from their labours So saith the Spirit not so saith the Flesh. So much the more spirit a man hath so much the more he will say it is blessed and the more hee will pray submittingly for it quickly Indeed a godly man when the flesh is predominant and the spirit under hatches then he may be desirous to be spared a while oh spare me a little as the Spouse may sometimes wish her Husband deferring his comming when she is not fit to receive him the house is not ready not cleane enough A Crowne of Righteousnesse saith the Apostle is laid up for all them that love the appearing of the Lord Iesus 1 Timothy 4 8. And the second time shall Christ appeare to salvation to all them that look for him Hebrews 9. Art thou then one that lookes for Christ that desires nothing but union with him hee will come to thee to thy salvation If men looke not for him will hee come to them to salvation It may be in some disease wh●n thou canst take no pleasure in the world you wish that you were with Christ. Nature may have a great hand in this But in thy youth in the midst of all worldly contents when thou art in thy pleasant Orchard with thy Wife and Children about thee having what thy heart can wish canst thou say then Now would I most willingly leave all these to goe to Christ when you prefer his company above all things count that delight the best that comes from communion with him then thou lovest the Lord Iesus Love is exceeding bountifull apt to doe much for the Lord and to suffer any thing gladly The Apostle in the first Epistle to the Corinthians Chapter 13. sets downe many excellent properties of Love she that loved Christ had a box of Oyntment it may bee it was the best thing shee had it may bee it was all she had yet she bestows it on Christ. So Abraham when God would have his Sonne hee go's willingly about it not formally not out of necessity but he rose up early to doe it It may bee there will come a time when God shall need thy Wealth it may be thy Credit 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 which should cost him nothing 2 Samuel 24. But what can I bestow upon the Lord thou wil● say If thou art a Preicher 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 deare unto thee And as love is thus bountifull so it seekes not its owne 1 Corinthians 13. And now how f 〈…〉 will bae found hat love Christ wee may well complain with Paul All men seeke their owne and ●one the things of Iesus Christ Philemon 2. Paul that loved the Lord how was hee affected hee regarded o● himselfe tooke not care what should become of himselfe hee tooke the care of all the Churches upon him Who is offended and so by taking offence fals away and I burne not Art thou a Minister and lovest the Lord Iesus thou wilt not be so carefull for a living and that it be a convenient one but thou wouldest preach as Paul though for nothing for every man might doe much for the Lord if he sought the things of the Lord if hee did plod with himselfe how to bring advantage to Christ. And then if this should come in if I doe this I shall hinder my estate lose my friends it would be