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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 2 › Section 1: The Doctrine and Method.

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In opening of the nature of this Love to Christ, I shall not only mention the formal reason of it, but also what is presupposed, and necessarily requisite to the raising or producing of it in the heart of man; my Apprehensions concerning it I shall give you in these twelve following Particulars, which being taking up, and laid together, will contain a description of this Love.

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1. This Love supposeth the goodness of the Object.

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2. It includes or implies the illumination of the Understanding to see and discern this incomparable goodness in Christ.

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3. It includes a discovery of the suitableness of Christ unto the Soul in all respects.

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SECT. II. The nature, requisites, and the description of this Love to Christ.