A36320:157
Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming
Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming by Tho. Doolittle ...
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
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.
Arg. 4. There is no way ordained by God for Final-Non-Lovers of Christ• to escape the punishment of Sin, and the Torments of Hell; therefore such are in an accursed damnable Condition. When man had broken the Covenant of Works, God sent his Son to die, and satisfy for the breach of that Covenant, so that Salvation is not impossible; and the escaping of the threatened Curse, is not impossible: And though you have sinned against the Gospel by not loving of Christ hitherto; yet Christ hath so far satisfied for sins against the Gospel, that upon your acceptance of Christ, you might have Remission and Salvation: but if you die without Love to Christ, and Faith in him, Christ did not satisfy for that Sin, nor die for the expiating of the final violation of the Covenant of Grace, or for the final-non-performance of the Conditions thereof: So that you sin against the very remedy prepared to help Sinners out of their Misery; and can you be saved that finally refuse the Saviour? Can you escape the Curse, that to the last gasp reject the only Remedy; for besides this there is no other. Heb. 10.26. For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin: 27. But a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery indignation, that shall devour the Adversaries. 28. He that despised Moses's law, died without mercy, under two or three witnesses. 29. Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, ⟨p. 49⟩an unholy thing, and hath done despite to the spirit of grace.
Arg. 4. There is no way ordained by God for Final-Non-Lovers of Christ• to escape the punishment of Sin, and the Torments of Hell; therefore such are in an accursed damnable Condition. When man had broken the Covenant of Works, God sent his Son to die, and satisfy for the breach of that Covenant, so that Salvation is not impossible; and the escaping of the threatned Curse, is not impossible: And though you have sinned against the Gospel by not loving of Christ hitherto; yet Christ hath so far satisfied for sins against the Gospel, that upon your acceptance of Christ, you might have Remission and Salvation: but if you die without Love to Christ, and Faith in him, Christ did not satisfy for that Sin, nor die for the expiating of the final violation of the Covenant of Grace, or for the final-non-performance of the Conditions thereof: So that you sin against the very remedy prepared to help Sinners out of their Misery; and can you be saved that finally refuse the Saviour? Can you escape the Curse, that to the last gasp reject the only Remedy; for besides this there is no other.