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

Christ knoweth the command and influence which Love to him, in the Truth and Strength of it, hath: How it will Engage all the other Affections of his Disciples for Him; that if he have their Love, their Desires will be chiefly after Him; their Delights will be chiefly in Him, their Hopes and Expectations will be chiefly from Him; their Hatred, Fear, Grief, Anger, will be carried forth chiefly unto Sin, as it is Offensive unto Him. He knows that Love will Engage and Employ, for him all the Powers and Faculties of their Souls; their Thoughts will be brought into Captivity and Obedience unto Him; their Understandings will be employed in Seeking ⟨p. 3⟩and Finding out his Truths; their Memories will be Receptacles to retain them; their Conscience will be ready to Accuse and Excuse as his Faithful Deputies; their Wills will Choose and Refuse according to his Direction and Revealed Pleasure. All their Senses and the Members of their Bodies, will be his Servants: their Eyes will See for him, their Ears will Hear for him, their Tongues will Speak for him, their Hands will Work for him, their Feet will Walk for him: All their Gifts and Talents will be at his Devotion and Service. If he have their Love, they will be ready to Do for him what he requireth; they will be ready to Suffer for him, whatever he calleth them unto: If they have much Love to him, they will not think much of Denying themselves; taking up his Cross and following him wherever he leadeth them, love to Christ then being so Essential unto true Christianity, so earnestly looked for by our Lord and Master, so Powerfully Commanding in the Soul and over the whole Man, so Greatly Influential on Duty; I have made choice of this subject of Love to Christ, to Treat on; and my chief Endeavour herein shall be to Excite and Provoke Christians unto the Lively and Vigorous Exercise of ⟨p. 4⟩this Grace of Love unto the Lord Jesus Christ; of which Incentives, there is a Great and Universal need.

Christ knoweth the command and influence which Love to him, in the Truth and Strength of it, hath: How it will Engage all the other Affections of his Disciples for Him; that if he have their Love, their Desires will be chiefly after Him; their Delights will be chiefly in Him, their Hopes and Expectations will be chiefly from Him; their Hatred, Fear, Grief, Anger, will be carried forth chiefly unto Sin, as it is Offensive unto Him. He knows that Love will Engage and Employ, for him all the Powers and Faculties of their Souls; their Thoughts will be brought into Captivity and Obedience unto Him; their Understandings will be employed in Seeking