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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.
4. You have the Robes of Righteousness from Christ: you are born naked of Original Righteousness, and you could ⟨p. 91⟩not work out any actual Righteousness for your selves that might cover your nakedness, whatever you wrought your selves it was rags that could not cover you, and it was filthy rags which did pollute and defile you. Christ hath given you the Robes of his perfect Righteousness to cover and adorn you withal, and therein you are accepted as perfectly Righteous in the sight of God. O how should we love the Lord Jesus for this Garment; if your Bodies were naked and one should give you clothes to cover you, especially if they were rich clothes, you would love such a person; and will you not love the Lord Jesus Christ who hath given you a garment to cover your Souls, and that a very rich one, even the Robes of his most pure and unspotted Righteousness which by Faith is put upon you?
4. You have the Robes of Righteousness from Christ: you are born naked of Original Righteousness, and you could ⟨p. 91⟩not work out any actual Righteousness for your selves that might cover your nakedness, whatever you wrought your selves it was rags that could not cover you, and it was filthy rags which did pollute and defile you. Christ hath given you the Robes of his perfect Righteousness to cover and adorn you withall, and therein you are accepted as perfectly Righteous in the sight of God. O how should we love the Lord Jesus for this Garment; if your Bodies were naked and one should give you clothes to cover you, especially if they were rich clothes, you would love such a person; and will you not love the Lord Jesus Christ who hath given you a garment to cover your Souls, and that a very rich one, even the Robes of his most pure and unspotted Righteousness which by Faith is put upon you?