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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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7. It includes the prevailing and predominant degrees of our love to be to Christ more than to any thing else whatsoever.

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8. In this Love is the election of the Will, choosing Christ for himself, and for the excellency of his own Person, tho not with the exclusion of our own advantage by him.

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9. Christ as Lord as well as Saviour, is the Object of this Love; Christ in all his Offices, as Teacher, Ruler, as well as Benefactor, is beloved; in which respect the Love of all Hypocrites and carnal Gospellers doth fail and come short.

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10. This Love is wrought by the powerful special operation of the Spirit of God upon the heart.

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Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming

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

SECT. III. The Second Requisite of this Love.

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

SECT. III. The Second Requisite of this Love.