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

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 ⟨p. 89⟩of his natural darkness by Christ, did love Christ for this favour, so as boldly to plead for him before the Pharisees, though he were for it cast out of the Synagogues, as you may read in John 9. How much more reason have you to love Christ, who hath cured you of your Spiritual darkness; which had it continued, you would have gone blindfold to Hell, where there it blackness of darkness for ever?

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 yee 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-priviledges, 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