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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.
Then the man amongst you, that is not openly profane, but of a moral conversation, and moreover a Professor, will say as Saul did to Samuel, Blessed be thou of the Lord. I have performed the commandment of the Lord, 1 Sam. 15.13. But Samuel replied, ver. 16. What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the Oxen which I hear? So ye say, we love the Lord; how do ye prove it? Why we have performed the Commandments of the Lord. Have ye so? What meaneth then the neglect of Prayer in your Families that I hear of? What meaneth then your Idling away the Lords day, or polluting it by worldly Discourse? What meaneth, I pray you, the allowed dead Praying, and dull performances, not striven against, nor lamented for? But if you would not deceive your sell, mind that, that Obedience which proves sincerity of love to Christ must be,
1. Universal, and that in regard of the object; all the Commandments of God, those that are more hard, as those that be more easy; those that cross and condemn your best beloved sin, as well as those you could more easily and readily part with; those commands that respect the inward as well as the outward Man, and do enjoin the manner as well as the matter of your Duties. Psal. 119.6. Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all thy commandments; and Universal, in regard of the subject, that your obedience be done with the whole heart. Deut. 10.12. And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
1. Ʋniversal, and that in regard of the object; all the Commandments of God, those that are more hard, as those that be more easie; those that cross and condemn your best beloved sin, as well as those you could more easily and readily part with; those commands that respect the inward as well as the outward Man, and do enjoin the manner as well as the matter of your Duties.