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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.
3. Christ. Anointed; Psal. 45.7. God thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. Isa. 61.1. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings— If he hath been anointed to be a Saviour to lost Sinners, should not the thoughts of this be an attractive of your love?
3. Christ. Anointed; Psal. 45.7. God thy God hath anointed thee with the oyl of gladness above thy fellows. Isa. 61.1. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings— If he hath been anointed to be a Saviour to lost Sinners, should not the thoughts of this be an attractive of your love?
2. To gain your love to Christ, consider him in his relation to the Father, who yet gave him for you. All Beings have some relation to God, but none nearer to him than Christ; who is God's own Son, and that in a sense beyond all Angels that were the ⟨p. 186⟩Sons of God by creation, Job 38.7. Believers, by Adoption, John 1.12. Gal. 3.26. but Christ by eternal Generation, Psal. 2.7. Christ, God's only begotten Son, such an one he had but one, and yet this only one was given for you. O where is your love? Is not this enough to kindle it in your hearts? Christ was God's dear Son, his very Darling, his daily delight,