A36320:186
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.
Yet Love is thus insisted on for such Reasons as these.
1. Love commands the whole man; for it is in the Will, which is the commanding Faculty. Love
1. Commands and sets on work all the other affections. If a man love Christ, it sets Desires on work, if he be absent; it sets Joy on work, if he be present, if Christ be absent, and the Soul doth see a probability of obtaining him, Love sets Hope on work: If there be any impediments that hinders a man in his prosecution, it sets Anger on work for the removal of them.
2. Love commands the thoughts and mind: For love to Christ sets the mind on thinking on Christ, and meditating upon him. The mind doth muse upon what the heart doth love: Where love is sixth, the thoughts do dwell. Psal. 119.97. O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
2. Love commands the thoughts and mind: For love to Christ sets the mind on thinking on Christ, and meditating upon him. The mind doth muse upon what the heart doth love: Where love is fixt, the thoughts do dwell.