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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

Title page of the 1693 edition: Internet Archive scan of the Early English Books microfilm (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

LOVE to CHRIST NECESSARY TO ESCAPE the CURSE At His COMING. › Chapter 5: Eight Reasons why Love is so strictly required, that Christ must be Loved, or the Sin…LOVE to CHRIST NECESSARY TO ESCAPE the CURSE At His COMING. › Chapter 5: Eight Reasons why Love is so strictly required, that Christ must be Loved, or the Sinne…

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.

[ Earlier:186–201 of 502

:186p. 70¶2

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. Psal. 119.97. O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

:187p. 70–71¶3

3. Love commands all the outward members of the body. Love to Christ doth set the Tongue to speak of Christ, and for him; the Ear on hearing of his Word; the Eyes in seeing the tokens of his Love ⟨p. 71⟩and Goodness; the Hands in acting, and the Feet in walking to those places and duties where Christ is to be found, and enjoyment of him to be had.

:188p. 71¶2

2. If Christ hath our love, he hath our all: And Christ never hath his own from us, till he hath our Love. Love withholdeth nothing from Christ, when it is sincerely set upon him. Then he shall have our time, and he shall have our service, and he shall have the use of all our Parts, and Gifts, and Graces; yea, then he shall have our Estates, Liberty, and our very Lives, when he calleth for them.

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