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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.
Let him alone, let him take his course, and walk in the foolish imagination of his own vil heart: An heavy Curse in this life.
Let him alone, let him take his course, and walk in the foolish imagination of his owne vil heart: An heavy Curse in this life.
But when Maran-atha, the Lord comes, these Curses on the Soul shall be settled, fixed, never removed. This was the man that never loved me; now, let him never repent, except it be with a vain, empty, self-tormenting Repentance: Now, let him be without Holiness for ever, and without Love to me for ever.
But when Maran-atha, the Lord comes, these Curses on the Soul shall be setled, fixed, never removed. This was the man that never loved me; now, let him never repent, except it be with a vain, empty, self-tormenting Repentance: Now, let him be without Holiness for ever, and without Love to me for ever.
3. To be Anathema, when Maran-atha, shall be to be cursed with a bitter Curse, without any ingredient of the least Blessing, to allay or mitigate the bitterness of it: Then shall he have sorrow without joy, mourning without mirth, darkness without light, pain without ease, misery without mercy, all evil without the least good, and all this without end, and therefore without hope; this Cup of Cursing, because it shall be so pure without mixture, shall be so exceeding, so inconceivably bitter. Rev. 14.10. The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture, into the cup of his indignation, and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone, in the presence of his holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb. 11. And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever; and they have no rest day nor night.— A bitter Cup, a bitter Curse; more bitter than the water of Jealousy that caused the Curse, which a woman drank that had given her love to another man, and had trespassed against her husband; the Water was bitter Water, and the Curse a bitter Curse; for it made