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The true Christians love of the unseen Christ, or, A discourse chiefly tending to…
The true Christians love of the unseen Christ, or, A discourse chiefly tending to excite and promote the decaying love of Christ in the hearts of Christians with an appendix concerning Christs manifestation of himself to them that love him / by Thomas Vincent.
London: printed by J.R. for Samuel Sprint, 1677
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.
SECT. XIII.
The third sort of motives to excite your love unto Christ, may be drawn from the consideration of Christs Benefits. If you are true Christians you have 1. Spiritual Light from Christ. 2. Spiritual Life from him. 3. The Pardon of sin from him. 4. The Robes of Righteousness from him. 5. The Peace of Conscience from him. 6. The Joys of the Holy Ghost from him. 7. The Riches of Grace from him. 8. The Dignity of Children from him. 9. The Spirit of Prayer from him. 10. Title to the Kingdom of Heaven, ⟨p. 88⟩with the first Fruits and fore-tastes of it from him here, and shall be put into the possession of it by him hereafter.
THe third sort of motives to excite your love unto Christ, may be drawn from the consideration of Christs Benefits. If you are true Christians you have 1. Spiritual Light from Christ. 2. Spiritual Life from him. 3. The Pardon of sin from him. 4. The Robes of Righteousness from him. 5. The Peace of Conscience from him. 6. The Joyes of the Holy Ghost from him. 7. The Riches of Grace from him. 8. The Dignity of Children from him. 9. The Spirit of Prayer from him. 10. Title to the Kingdom of Heaven, ⟨p. 88⟩with the first Fruits and fore-tastes of it from him here, and shall be put into the possession of it by him hereafter.
1. You have Spiritual light from Christ; Christ is the Sun from whom all the beams of this light do come: time was when you were not only in the dark, but darkness; but Jesus Christ did enlighten you, Eph. 5. 8. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord; walk as Children of the light: it is Christ that hath turned you from darkness to light, that hath translated you out of darkness into his marvellous light, he hath caused a marvellous light to shine into your minds, whereby he hath discovered to you the wonderful things of the Law, that thereby you might discern the odious nature of Sin; and whereby he hath discovered to you the wonderful mysteries of the Gospel, that thereby you might discern the excellency of Gospel-privileges, and the exceeding Riches of Gods Grace and Kindness through Jesus Christ. Christ hath opened your Eyes to see the chiefest evil, that you might be delivered from it, and the chiefest, good and happiness that you might attain unto it. And doth not this light which you have from Christ call for your love? If the man that was born blind, and was cured