A36320:86
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.
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.
10. This Love is wrought by the powerful special operation of the Spirit of God upon the heart.
11. Whence follows a voluntary resignation of a man's self to Christ, without reservation of himself, or any thing he hath, unto himself.
12. When all this is done, the Soul doth delight in Christ, if present; or desires after him, if absent; or mourns for him, if it cannot find him; for one of these three ways Love will be working, and by these workings discover it self.
12. When all this is done, the Soul doth delighe in Christ, if present; or desires after him, if absent; or mourns for him, if it cannot find him; for one of these three ways Love will be working, and by these workings discover it self.