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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…

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:190p. 71¶3

3. Love gives the denomination to a man, according as the Object is which he superlatively loveth: For as is the Love, such is the man; and as is the Love, such might you boldly call the man: If he be a lover of Honour, he is an Ambitious man; a lover of Pleasure, a Voluptuous man; and if he chiefly love the World, he is a Covetous man; if he love Holiness, he is a Religious man; if the things above, an Heavenly-minded man; and if he love Christ with a predominant love, he is a Sincere man, Cant. 1.4. The upright love thee.

:191p. 71–72¶4

4. Without Love all other things, tho never so many, great, and excellent in themselves, are not acceptable ⟨p. 72⟩unto God. He regardeth not your Prayers, if you do not love him: He matters not your Hearing, if you do not love him; all your Almsdeeds are poor things in his esteem, if you do not love him; yea, all your Suffering for Religion, and for Christ, are nothing, if you do not love him. If a man could Preach like an Angel, and yet not love him, he should not be accepted by him, 1 Cor. 13.1. Tho I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2. And tho I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and tho I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have no charity, I am nothing. 3. And tho I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and tho I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Love therefore is above all these, for all these without love are nothing.

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