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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.
5. You have peace of Conscience from Christ. This is that peace which the Scripture telleth us passeth all understanding, Phil. 4. 7. It passeth all understanding to know the worth of it; such as have this peace would not leave it upon any account, they would part with Estate or Liberty, or Life rather than part with their peace; and those which have it no•, but ⟨p. 92⟩now do slight and neglect it, yet if they be awakened by the sides of the Grave, and when they are come to the confines of Eternity, then they would value this peace, and would give all the world (were it at their dispose) for it. Th•• Jewel of peace you have from Jesus Christ, he hath purchased it for you, the chastisement of your peace was upon him, and he hath promised and bequeathed it in his last will and Testament unto you, John 14. 27. My Peace I leave with you, my Peace I give unto you. In his reconciling you unto God he hath laid a Foundation for this peace in all you that are true believers; and if he have moreover spoken peace to you in giving you well grounded evidences of your Reconciliation; if after raising a Storm, he hath sent a calm into your Spirits, and given a sweet f•renity unto you in the testimony of his Spirit to and with your Spirits that your peace is made with God, O how should this draw forth your love to Christ?
5. You have peace of Conscience from Christ. This is that peace which the Scripture telleth us passeth all understanding, Phil. 4. 7. It passeth all understanding to know the worth of it; such as have this peace would not leave it upon any account, they would part with Estate or Liberty, or Life rather than part with their peace; and those which have it no•, but ⟨p. 92⟩now do slight and neglect it, yet if they be awakened by the sides of the Grave, and when they are come to the confines of Eternity, then they would value this peace, and would give all the world (were it at their dispose) for it. Th Jewel of peace you have from Jesus Christ, he hath purchased it for you, the chastisement of your peace was upon him, and he hath promised and bequeathed it in his last will and Testament unto you,