A36320:7
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
Letter: THE EPISTLE TO Non-Lovers OF CHRIST, Lamenting Their SIN and MISERY.
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.
THE EPISTLE TO Non-Lovers OF CHRIST, Lamenting Their SIN and MISERY.
That Glorious Person, who is both Lord and Jesus, and Christ, hath suffered, and done, and promised, such things that might gain the love of Sinners to himself; and by these doth Plead with them, to set ⟨image 3⟩their Affections upon him. In opposition to him, the World, and Sin, stand in competition with him, for the love of man's Heart. Christ calls, Sinner, Love me. Sin and World, cry aloud, Place thy love on us. The Spirit, Word, Ministers, Mercies, and a Well-informed awakened Conscience, press hard for the Love of Man to Christ: The Devil, and the Flesh, solicit for the Heart of Man, for Sin and World. Love man hath, and one of these he will Love; both he cannot, at the same time, with a predominant Love, for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot [Love and] serve God and Mammon, Mat. 6.24. Predominant Love to the one, is inconsistent with such Love unto the other. 1 Joh. 2.15. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
THat Glorious Person, who is both Lord and Jesus, and Christ, hath suffered, and done, and promised, such things that might gain the love of Sinners to himself; and by these doth Plead with them, to set ⟨image 3⟩their Affections upon him. In opposition to him, the World, and Sin, stand in competition with him, for the love of man's Heart. Christ calls, Sinner, Love me. Sin and World, cry aloud, Place thy love on us. The Spirit, Word, Ministers, Mercies, and a Well-informed awaken'd Conscience, press hard for the Love of Man to Christ: The Devil, and the Flesh, sollicit for the Heart of Man, for Sin and World. Love man hath, and one of these he will Love; both he cannot, at the same time, with a predominant Love, for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot [Love and] serve God and Mammon,