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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. Art thou not lost, undone, in danger to be Damned? Christ will be thy Saviour, thy Keeper, and Recoverer. Luk. 19.10. The son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost. Heb. 7.25. Wherefore he is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them. Isa. 63.1.— Mighty to save.
2. Art not thou ignorant, dark and blind, knowest not the way to Heaven and eternal Happiness, and might•st weary thy self to find the Gate of Life, and yet miss of it when thou hast done all? He will be thy Teacher and thy Guide, and direct thee Infallibly to it. He will Anoint thine Eyes, and cause thee to see such things as never yet thou sawest, ver. 3.18▪ If he Anoint thine Eyes with his Eye-salve, though thou wast born blind, thou shalt have thy sight.
3. Art thou not Sick, and full of Spiritual Diseases? Abounding with Soul Distempers? Even sick to Death? Nigh unto eternal Death? He will be thy Physician, who is so able and so skilful, that never any yet, that he undertook to Cure, Died under his Hands; for rather than thou shouldst dye of thy Disease, he will make thee a Potion of his own Blood, which if thou Drinkest, thou shalt certainly recover. Therefore he came to be a Soul. Physician, and gave this as a reason why he did converse with Publicans and Sinners, That he might cure them,