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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 13: Ten Springs of Spiritual Comfort flowing into the Hearts of the Lovers of Christ.

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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Lovest thou the Lord Jesus! Blessed Soul! Lovest thou Christ? Happy Man! Lovest thou him that is Lord, and Jesus, and Christ? Joy in thy Love. For great is the difference between the Lovers of Pleasures and the Lovers of Christ; betwixt the Lovers of the World, and the Lovers of Christ; betwixt the Lovers of Sin, and the Lovers of Christ: For the Lovers of Pleasures shall be filled with pain, when their Pleasures are gone; but so shall not the Lovers of Christ, for their eternal Love to Christ, will be eternal Pleasure to them.

LOvest thou the Lord Jesus! Blessed Soul! Lovest thou Christ? Happy Man! Lovest thou him that is Lord, and Jesus, and Christ? Joy in thy Love. For great is the difference between the Lovers of Pleasures and the Lovers of Christ; betwixt the Lovers of the World, and the Lovers of Christ; betwixt the Lovers of Sin, and the Lovers of Christ: For the Lovers of Pleasures shall be filled with pain, when their Pleasures are gone; but so shall not the Lovers of Christ, for their eternal Love to Christ, will be eternal Pleasure to them.

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2. The Lovers of the World shall lose all they love; though they do not love to lose, yet they shall certainly lose all they love; but so shall not the Lovers of Christ; for they love and long to see him; and in seeing him for ever, shall have and love him for ever.

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3. The Lovers of Sin shall be condemned for their Love, must to their Lodgings in Hell, where Love is a stranger; but so shall not the Lovers of Christ, but shall be taken up to their Mansions in Heaven, and shall dwell in Light, and Life, and Love for ever. Where Light shall be the Life of Love; ⟨p. 198⟩and their Life shall be the Love of Light, and Love shall shine and sparkle in Light and Life for evermore. Now we believe, but do not see Christ, nor ever have, for we walk by faith and not by sight; though we have not seen him, yet believing we love him; believing and loving without seeing brings rejoicing, unspeakable and full of Glory. Oh what will that Joy then be, when believing shall be turned into seeing, when we shall not believe and love, but see and love! That Joy that now proceeds from Believing and Loving is unspeakable, but that Joy that shall flow from Seeing and Loving is unconceivable.

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