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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.
1. Thou art faithless, for didst thou believe on him, thou wouldst have sincere love unto him, for where there is Faith, it worketh by love, Gal. 5.6.
2. Thou art fearless of God. Love and fear of God do sweetly concur: Love is afraid to offend.
3. Thou art sorrowless; that is, as to any holy, godly sorrow: For love to Christ would make thee sorrow for thy sin, for the absence of Christ, and love would cause thee to sorrow that thou lovest no more.
4. Thou art also hopeless; for there can be no solid ground of hope in him, when there is no love unto him. He that hopes for Heaven by the merits of Christ, without love to the person of Christ, his hope is a Fabric without a foundation, the Fools Paradise: It is hope without a warrant, and in the end, when he misseth of the end of his expectation, will be found to be no better than rash confidence, bold and damnable presumption. For the greatest Professor, without love to Christ, is a Self-deluding Hypocrite, whose hope shall be cut off, and prove as weak, though spun as fine as a Spiders web,