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Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming

Name: Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming
Author: Thomas Doolittle

Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming by Tho. Doolittle ...

Thomas Doolittle 1632?–1707London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692

[22], 215, [1] p. · 66k words · Wing D1886 · ESTC R13801

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LOVE to CHRIST NECESSARY TO ESCAPE the CURSE At His COMING. › Chapter 2 › Section 11: The Tenth Requisite to Love to Christ, or the Worker of it.

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SECT. XI. The Tenth Requisite to Love to Christ, or the Worker of it.

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Tenthly, This Love to Christ is wrought by the Powerful Operation of the Spirit of God upon the heart. For tho there is Affection of Love naturally in all men, yet there is not the Grace of Love naturally in any man. There is love to sin, and to the world, and there might be love of man to man, and some common love in man to God, by some common workings of the Spirit; but there can be no special Saving Love to Jesus Christ, but by the special Operations of the Holy Ghost. It is a Flower that doth not grow in Natures Garden, but is planted by the Spirit of God: Therefore spiritual holy Love is said to be a fruit of the Spirit, Gal. 5.22. And if any, such surely is sincere and saving Love to Christ.

TEnthly, This Love to Christ is wrought by the Powerful Operation of the Spirit of God upon the heart. For tho there is Affection of Love naturally in all men, yet there is not the Grace of Love naturally in any man. There is love to sin, and to the world, and there might be love of man to man, and some common love in man to God, by some common workings of the Spirit; but there can be no special Saving Love to Jesus Christ, but by the special Operations of the Holy Ghost. It is a Flower that doth not grow in Natures Garden, but is planted by the Spirit of God: Therefore spiritual holy Love is said to be a fruit of the Spirit, Gal. 5.22. And if any, such surely is sincere and saving Love to Christ.

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Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming

SECT. XI. The Tenth Requisite to Love to Christ, or the Worker of it.

SECT. XII. The Eleventh Thing required in it.

SECT. XIII. The Workings of this Love, as it is Delighting, Desiring, or Mourning Love.

SECT. XIV. The Description of Love to Christ.

CHAP. III. Ten Arguments that prove the Necessity of this Love to Christ, for the avoiding of the Curse.

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SECT. XI. The Tenth Requisite to Love to Christ, or the Worker of it.

SECT. XII. The Eleventh Thing required in it.

SECT. XIII. The Workings of this Love, as it is Delighting, Desiring, or Mourning Love.

SECT. XIV. The Description of Love to Christ.

CHAP. III. Ten Arguments that prove the Necessity of this Love to Christ, for the avoiding of the Curse.