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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.
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, Mat. 9.12.
4. Art thou not indebted? Owest thou not Millions to God? Hast thou a Mite to pay? If God demand satisfaction from thee, will it not prove thy Damnation? If Justice pursue thee, Death Arrest ⟨p. 153⟩thee, will not Devils seize thy Soul, and hale it to the Prison of Hell, from whence thou shalt not be delivered, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing, which will never be? This Christ, if thou wilt but love him, will be thy Bail, become thy Surety, and make payment of thy Debt, and give thee a Discharge.