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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.
3. You have the pardon of sin from Christ; this Christ hath purchased for you, and the purchase hath cost him dear, even his blood which was of more worth than the treasures, were there so many, of ten thousand worlds; this Christ hath sued out for you by his intercession at the right hand of God. Whilst you were under the guilt of sin you were bound over by the Justice of God to suffer the vengeance of Eternal Fire; but being pardoned your obligation to future punishment is taken off, and you are no more liable to wrath to come, and the vengeance of Hell, than if you had never si•n'd. And will you not love the Lord Jesus Christ, who hath procured for you so great a privilege? we read of one that had much forgiven her, and she loved much, Luk. 7. 47. and have not you had much forgiven? have not your sins been very numerous, and very heinous? and hath Christ obtained the pardon of them all? and will not you love Christ much?
3. You have the pardon of sin from Christ; this Christ hath purchased for you, and the purchase hath cost him dear, even his blood which was of more worth than the treasures, were there so many, of ten thousand worlds; this Christ hath sued out for you by his intercession at the right hand of God. Whilst you were under the guilt of sin you were bound over by the Justice of God to suffer the vengeance of Eternal Fire; but being pardoned your obligation to future punishment is taken off, and you are no more lyable to wrath to come, and the vengeance of Hell, than if you had never si•n'd. And will you not love the Lord Jesus Christ, who hath procured for you so great a priviledge? we read of one that had much forgiven her, and she loved much, Luk. 7. 47. and have not you had much forgiven? have not your sins been very numerous, and very heinous? and hath Christ obtained the pardon of them all? and will not you love Christ much?
4. You have the Robes of Righteousness from Christ: you are born naked of Original Righteousness, and you could