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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 7: Under the first Use we might learn these Lessons, or deduce these Ten Corollaries.LOVE to CHRIST NECESSARY TO ESCAPE the CURSE At His COMING. › Chapter 7: Ʋnder the first Ʋse we might learn these Lessons, or deduce these Ten Corollaries.

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:243p. 94¶4

4. How many are [Greek or Hebrew]; Lovers of themselves more than lovers of Christ? 2 Tim. 3.2. And indeed sinful self-love is the very heart and core of the carnal man, and the great Idol of all unconverted sinners. Principles of selfishness are the rise of all their actions, and self is the end and scope at which they aim in all they do; and so set up self in the room of God and Christ; and love carnal self, when they should love Christ, and so shall lye under the Curse, when they would have a Blessing. Few love Christ, and few blessed by Christ. Most are void of love unto him, and most shall be accursed at his coming. Is it an hard saying? If hard, yet true. Is it a hard saying? But it will be harder feeling, when the Curse shall fully be inflicted.

4. How many are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; Lovers of themselves more than lovers of Christ? 2 Tim. 3.2. And indeed sinful self-love is the very heart and core of the carnal man, and the great Idol of all unconverted sinners. Principles of selfishness are the rise of all their actions, and self is the end and scope at which they aim in all they do; and so set up self in the room of God and Christ; and love carnal self, when they should love Christ, and so shall lye under the Curse, when they would have a Blessing. Few love Christ, and few blessed by Christ. Most are void of love unto him, and most shall be accursed at his coming. Is it an hard saying? If hard, yet true. Is it a hard saying? But it will be harder feeling, when the Curse shall fully be inflicted.

:244p. 94–95¶11

XI. Shall every one that loves not Christ be Anathema, when Maran-atha, accursed when the Lord shall come? then the day of Christ's coming will be a doleful day to the Non-Lovers of Christ. Then all the World shall be divided into cursed ones, and blessed ones. You love not Christ, and yet bless your self; but I pray you consider Maran-atha, the Lord comes. You glory in your Estate, though Christ hath not your Heart; but I beg of you, that you would remember Maran-atha. You put the Curse, and the Evil day far from you; but I beseech you let Maran-atha sound in your ears. Then! Oh then, you shall curse the day that ever you were born! you shall curse the time that you lived under the Gospel, and heard of Christ, but did not love him. You shall curse your self for your wickedness, madness and folly, that so lovely a Christ was set before you, and you had

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CHAP. VIII. Twenty Aggravations of want of Love to Christ.