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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.
XII. Not love Christ! What do ye make of this but the beginning of Hell? By the same reason as love to Christ is the beginning of Heaven. Love to Christ is the employment of the Saints in Glory, and to be without love to Christ is the frame of the Damned in misery. So much of hatred to Christ is in you, so much of Hell is in you, before you be in Hell.
XIII. Want of love to Christ! Is not this the Daughter, and the Off-spring, of many foul abominations that are reigning in thy heart? Doth it not suppose the predominancy of many other sins? As,
1. Doth it not suppose Ignorance of thy misery, Sins deformity, and of Christs beauty, excellency and necessity?
2. Doth it not suppose preceding Infidelity? That thou dost not believe what God saith concerning Christ, nor what shall be thy portion, and thy everlasting miserable condition without Christ?