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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 8: Twenty Aggravations of want of Love to Christ.

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.

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:275p. 113–114

Poor Sinner! Will the Devil save thee? Christ would. Will he help thee into the favour of God, or up to Heaven? Tell me, what dost thou in thy Conscience think, doth Christ or the Devil most desire thy real good? Did the Devil suffer for thee? Christ did. Did the Devil dye for thee? Christ hath. Hath the Devil any love unto thee? Christ had so much as to shed his Blood, that if thou wilt hearken to him, thou mightest be saved by him. Why then, when Christ, the World and Satan, are striving for thy heart and love, dost ⟨p. 114⟩thou open to the World and Satan, and shut it against the Lord Jesus Christ?

:276p. 114¶10

X. Not love Christ! Dost thou not herein bear the Image of the Devil, and look more like a Devil than a man. Hath the Devil no love to Christ? Nor hast thou. Oh what a thing is this, that a man on earth should love Christ no more than the Devils in Hell? And is the likeness of the Devil thy Glory? Is his Image thy Beauty? And Conformity to Satan thy Dignity? Or canst thou be saved more than the Devil himself, if thou lovest Christ no more than he? Oh when the Accusation at the last day shall be brought against thee, This man hated Christ like a Devil: Did he so? Away with him now unto the Devils. And that mans heart was no more towards Christ than the Devils. No? Then let that Man and Devils go together, and be Damned together.

:277p. 114–115¶11

XI. Not love Christ! Dost thou not carry thy self worse towards Christ than the Devils do? And is not thy not loving of Christ worse in thee than it is in Devils? because the greater love and kindness that Christ hath shown to thee than ever he did to Devils, and the more he hath done for thee than he hath for them, the worse is want of love to Christ in thee than in them. Did Christ dye for Devils as he hath for thee? Did he bear the punishment of their Sin, as he hath for thine? Did he ever make Salvation possible to them, as he hath to thee? Did he ever offer pardon to them, as he hath to thee? Or did he ever solicit them for their love, as he hath done with thee for thine? Might not Devils say, we have

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