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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 11: Twenty Motives, or Pleas, that Christ might have the Love of your Hearts.

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5. Is it not great folly to love that which might leave you while ye live, and not that Christ that would never leave you, nor forsake you? As ye are sure these things, which ye love, will be none of yours after Death, so ye are not sure they shall be yours while ye live. May ye not be rich to day, and poor to morrow? Well to day, and sick to morrow? In honour to day, and in disgrace to morrow? Was it not so with Haman? Esth. 6.10, 11 , & 7.9, 10. When ye have Riches, and love them, ye are not sure to hold them. Prov. 23.5. Wilt thou set thine eyes (thine Heart and Love) upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings and fly away as an Eagle towards heaven. The Hebrew Text is, Wilt thou cause thy eyes to fly upon that which is not? Riches fly away, and the Worldly mans Heart, and Love, fly after them; and though his Heart and Love, be swift in their motion after Riches, yet sometimes Riches fly so swiftly, that their Lover cannot overtake them. The pleasures of Sin, and so the profits of the World, are but for a Season, Heb. 11.25. and when the Season is over they are gone; but Christ would never leave you, nor forsake you, Heb. 13.5.

5. Is it not great folly to love that which might leave you while ye live, and not that Christ that would never leave you, nor forsake you? As ye are fure these things, which ye love, will be none of yours after Death, so ye are not sure they shall be yours while ye live. May ye not be rich to day, and poor to morrow? Well to day, and sick to morrow? In honour to day, and in disgrace to morrow? Was it not so with Haman? Esth. 6.10, 11 , & 7.9, 10. When ye have Riches, and love them, ye are not sure to hold them. Prov. 23.5. Wilt thou set thine eyes (thine Heart and Love) upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings and fly away as an Eagle towards heaven. The Hebrew Text is, Wilt thou cause thy eyes to fly upon that which is not? Riches fly away, and the Worldly mans Heart, and Love, fly after them; and though his Heart and Love, be swift in their motion after Riches, yet sometimes Riches fly so swiftly, that their Lover cannot overtake them. The pleasures of Sin, and so the profits of the World, are but for a Season,

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