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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

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LOVE to CHRIST NECESSARY TO ESCAPE the CURSE At His COMING. › Chapter 8: Twenty Aggravations of want of Love to Christ.

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XV. Love not Christ! Have not then all the Ordinances of God been ineffectual as to thee? Have not Ministers preached in vain, and spent their labour for nought? And hast not thou heard in vain? And followed the means of Grace in vain? when by all the means thou hast not got this Grace of Love? What though thou hast obtained knowledge, is not that knowledge, without love to Christ, vain knowledge? What though thou art able to discourse of God and Christ, and Heaven, and the workings of the Spirit, without love to Christ, is it not (though concerning such great and weighty matters, yet) vain discourse? Have not all the calls of Mercy, the workings of Conscience, the wooings of Grace, the pleadings of Ministers, the entreaties of Love, the knockings of Christ, the strivings of the Spirit, the waitings of Patience, been all slighted and disregarded by thee? Are not all thy Prayers lost, and will not all thy Profession come to nothing, and thy hopes of Heaven perish, when for want of love to Christ thy Soul shall never enter into Heaven, but perish everlastingly?

XV. Love not Christ! Have not then all the Ordinances of God been ineffectual as to thee? Have not Ministers preached in vain, and spent their labour for nought? And hast not thou heard in vain? And followed the means of Grace in vain? when by all the means thou hast not got this Grace of Love? What though thou hast obtained knowledge, is not that knowledge, without love to Christ, vain knowledge? What though thou art able to discourse of God and Christ, and Heaven, and the workings of the Spirit, without love to Christ, is it not (though concerning such great and weighty matters, yet) vain discourse? Have not all the calls of Mercy, the workings of Conscience, the wooings of Grace, the pleadings of Ministers, the intreaties of Love, the knockings of Christ, the strivings of the Spirit, the waitings of Patience, been all slighted and disregarded by thee? Are not all thy Prayers lost, and will not all thy Profession come to nothing, and thy hopes of Heaven perish, when for want of love to Christ thy Soul shall never enter into Heaven, but perish everlastingly?

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XVI. Want of love to Christ! Is it not a mark and brand of a graceless Man? Is not the absence of love to Christ, inconsistent with the presence of any other saving Grace?

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CHAP. IX. Ten Questions by way of Conviction, that many, very many, have no sincere Love to Christ; from whence also Characters of sincere love to him, by the right resolving of these Questions, might be gathered, and our Love tried, whether sincere or counterfeit.