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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

Title page of the 1693 edition: Internet Archive scan of the Early English Books microfilm (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

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.

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.

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:399p. 171¶14

XIV. Is it not great condescension in Christ, that he will so kindly accept of thy Love? One so great accept the Love of one so mean! One so holy accept the love of one that is so sinful! One so glorious, of one so vile! Do great Men value the love of Beggars? or Princes, the love of Peasants? Would a Man of great Birth and Estate give leave to one clothed in Rags to love him in order to Marriage? Or would he not scorn and reject both the person and her love? Methinks, considering what Christ is, and what thou art, thou shouldst say, If Christ will give me leave, I will love him. Give thee leave! Not only so, but gives the command, and that upon pain and peril of everlasting Damnation, if thou dost not. He doth give thee leave and charge to love him, but no leave to live without love to him, though for thy long refusal he might justly leave thee to live without love to him.

XIV. Is it not great condescention in Christ, that he will so kindly accept of thy Love? One so great accept the Love of one so mean! One so holy accept the love of one that is so sinful! One so glorious, of one so vile! Do great Men value the love of Beggars? or Princes, the love of Peasants? Would a Man of great Birth and Estate give leave to one cloathed in Rags to love him in order to Marriage? Or would he not scorn and reject both the person and her love? Methinks, considering what Christ is, and what thou art, thou shouldst say, If Christ will give me leave, I will love him. Give thee leave! Not only so, but gives the command, and that upon pain and peril of everlasting Damnation, if thou dost not. He doth give thee leave and charge to love him, but no leave to live without love to him, though for thy long refusal he might justly leave thee to live without love to him.

:400p. 171–172¶15

XV. Should you ever have any cause or reason to be ashamed of your love to Christ? Is not the time coming, and the day hastening, when covetous men shall be ashamed of their loving of the World, and voluptuous men ashamed of loving their Pleasures, and the ambitious of their Honours; but the time will never come, the day will never be, that a gracious Soul shall be ashamed of his ⟨p. 172⟩

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Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming

CHAP. XII. Ten Directions to get sincere Love to Christ, showing the way of Love to him.

CHAP. XII. Ten Directions to get sincere Love to Christ, shewing the way of Love to him.

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CHAP. XII. Ten Directions to get sincere Love to Christ, showing the way of Love to him.

CHAP. XII. Ten Directions to get sincere Love to Christ, shewing the way of Love to him.