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

seek and wait for that Manifestation ⟨p. 143⟩of himself which he hath promised to hem that love him, Joh. 14. 21. Wait for his Mission of the Holy Ghost from Heaven, 1 Pet. 1. 12. to shed abroad the sense of his Love into your hearts, Rom. 5. 5. and if you did know assuredly and had a sense hereof given unto you by the Spirit of Christ, O the Joys which then you would have in him! O the love which then you would have to him! As your Joys would be unspeakable, so your Love would be unspeakable too; such a warmth of heart and burning of love to Christ you would feel within you, as is beyond the Rhetoric of the Tongue to set forth.

seek and wait for that Manifestation ⟨p. 143⟩of himself which he hath promised to hem that love him, Ioh. 14. 21. Wait for his Mission of the Holy Ghost from Heaven, 1 Pet. 1. 12. to shed abroad the sense of his Love into your hearts, Rom. 5. 5. and if you did know assuredly and had a sense hereof given unto you by the Spirit of Christ, O the Joyes which then you would have in him! O the love which then you would have to him! As your Joyes would be unspeakable, so your Love would be unspeakable too; such a warmth of heart and burning of love to Christ you would feel within you, as is beyond the Rhetorick of the Tongue to set forth.

7. Would you have much Love to Christ? get much hatred of Sin, and accordingly watch and pray, and strive and fight against Sin, as the worst of Evils, as that which doth so much displease your Lord. Bewail sins of daily incursion, and labour that your sins of Infirmity may be less every day than other; Take heed of sins of sudden surprise, but chiefly of designed sins, and that you comply not with any temptations unto grosser miscarriages, which like water cast upon the Fire of your love to Christ, will put out the