The true Christians love of the unseen Christ, or, A discourse chiefly tending to…

3. The strength and activity of Christ's love to you doth show it self in what he will do for you. 1. He will keep you in his hand that none shall pluck you thence, Joh. 10. 28. They shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. Because you are received into the arms of his love, therefore you shall be kept by the hand of his power, and therefore you shall never either finally or totally fall away. 2. Christ will make all things work together for your good, Rom. 8. 28. And we know that All things work together for good to them that love God. Christ hath an endeared love to all you that love God, your love being the fruit of his; and when Men and Devils conspire together to do you mischief, Christs love will turn it unto your spiritual advantage. 3. Christ will stand by you in trouble and at death, John 14. 18. I will not leave you comfortless, I will come unto you. When affliction doth arise, especially if it be for his sake & ⟨p. 82⟩you are bereaved of all outward Comforts, Christ will not leave you comfortless, when friends fail, and flesh fails, and Heart fail, yea and life fails, Christ will not fail, but will stand by and strengthen you, and be a light to you in your darkest hours, a stay to your Spirits when they are ready to sink within you. 4. After death Christ will take care of your Souls, he will not suffer them to wander they know not whither, he will not suffer the Devil to seize on them as his prey, but he will send his Angels to conduct and convey them into the heavenly paradise, that where he is there they may be also, Luk. 16. 22. And it came to pass that the Beggar died and was carried by the Angels into Abraham's bosom, 2 Cor. 5. 8. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord. 5. Christ will raise up your Bodies at the last day, if your Bodies should be consumed by Fire, or drowned in the Water, or rot in the Earth, whatever becometh of them, the Lord Jesus at his second glorious appearance will find them and raise them, and transform them into the likeness of his most glorious body,