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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.
disappointment of Happiness and true contentment will make all ashamed of their inordinate Creature-love, especially when they come to reap the bitter Fruit of their Sin in their Everlasting punishment. Rom. 16. 21. What •ruit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed, for the end of those things is Death. But the love of Christ maketh not ashamed, it is no matter of dishonour ⟨p. 102⟩and therefore neither is nor will be matter of shame for any to love Jesus Christ with the greatest Strength and Ardency: if the wicked do despise and scorn Gods people, upon the account of this love, their scorns are their real Glory, as on the contrary their esteem of any upon the account of sin, is a real shame and dishonour.
disappointment of Happiness and true contentment will make all ashamed of their inordinate Creature-love, especially when they come to reap the bitter Fruit of their Sin in their Everlasting punishment. Rom. 16. 21. What •ruit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed, for the end of those things is Death. But the love of Christ maketh not ashamed, it is no matter of dishonor ⟨p. 102⟩and therefore neither is nor will be matter of shame for any to love Jesus Christ with the greatest Strength and Ardency: if the wicked do despise and scorn Gods people, upon the account of this love, their scorns are their reall Glory, as on the contrary their esteem of any upon the account of sin, is a reall shame and dishonour.
4. Consider, It is your Wisdom to love Christ. Deut. 4. 6. Keep therefore and Do them, for this is your Wisdom and Understanding in the sight of the Nations, which shall hear these Statutes, and say surely this great Nation is a Wise and Understanding People. None have such Wisdom and Understanding as those who have and keep this Statute and Commandment to love the Lord Jesus Christ,