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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. Any man] especially where the Gospel is preached, where the joyful sound is heard, to whom the tidings of a Saviour and Eternal Life are brought: The Heathen cannot love him, because they do not know him, because they hear not of him: but any man, especially that lives under the means of Grace, any mean man, any noble man, any ignorant man, any learned man, any man of any sort, of any age, of any calling, of any place or Nation, where they have so often and so long heard of Christ, that his blessed name is become too common in their profane polluted mouths. If any such man
3. Any man] especially where the Gospel is preached, where the joyful sound is heard, to whom the tydings of a Saviour and Eternal Life are brought: The Heathen cannot love him, because they do not know him, because they hear not of him: but any man, especially that lives under the means of Grace, any mean man, any noble man, any ignorant man, any learned man, any man of any sort, of any age, of any calling, of any place or Nation, where they have so often and so long heard of Christ, that his blessed name is become too common in their prophane polluted mouths. If any such man
4. Love not] tho he often talk of him, tho he pray to God, mentioning his Name; tho he profess him, hear daily from him, suffer or dye for him, and not love him that is
5. The Lord] the Lord of Lords, the only Potentate; the Lord that hath the power of Life and Death, able to take up to Heaven, and cast down ⟨p. 13⟩to Hell, to damn and save, that reigns over Men and Devils, that hath all Power committed to him, that is