A25470:832
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
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.
2. Consider, what it is I plead for; why, all that I ask is love, and will you deny Christ that? I call thee to think well of Christ, to desire him, to take Complacency in him, to breath after union and eternal communion with him; And which of these? dost thou think too much for such an object? or where canst thou place them, more fitly than upon him? what is he worthy of, if not of this? did ever death content it self with such a recompense? was ever any debt easier paid? any service so easily performed, as this, only to love? hath God made Christ a ⟨p. 242⟩King, Priest and Prophet, and is that all which thou must do, to partake of his love in him, to love him in those relations, and wilt thou stick at this? Hast thou any other way to the bosom of God but by him? & yet rather than thou wilt come thither by love, wilt thou damn thy soul by hating Christ? is not the enjoyment of God, worth the labour of love? 1shall all go, rather than be saved by love to thy Redeemer?
2. Consider, what it is I plead for; why, all that I aske is love, and will you deny Christ that? I call thee to think well of Christ, to desire him, to take Complacency in him, to breath after union and eternal communion with him; And which of these? dost thou think too much for such an object? or where canst thou place them, more fitly than upon him? what is hee worthy of, if not of this? did ever death content it self with such a recompence? was ever any debt easier paid? any service so easily performed, as this, only to love? hath God made Christ a ⟨p. 242⟩King, Priest and Prophet, and is that all which thou must do, to partake of his love in him, to love him in those relations, and wilt thou stick at this? Hast thou any other way to the bosome of God but by him? & yet rather than thou wilt come thither by love, wilt thou damn thy soul by hating Christ? is not the enjoyment of God, worth the labour of love? 1shall all go, rather than be saved by love to thy Redeemer?
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