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

More particularly, show your love to Christ, 1. In your learning, keeping, ⟨p. 152⟩asserting and maintaining of Christ's truths. 2. In your public spiritedness and zeal for Christs honour and interest. 3. In your vigorous resistance and opposition of Christs Enemies. 4. In your Following of Christ's example. 5. In your readiness to take up and patiently to bear Christs cross. 6. In your desires after Christs presence here, a longing for Christ's second appearance at the last day.

More particularly, shew your love to Christ, 1. In your learning, keeping, ⟨p. 152⟩asserting and maintaining of Christ's truths. 2. In your publick spiritedness and zeal for Christs honour and interest. 3. In your vigorous resistance and opposition of Christs Enemies. 4. In your Following of Christ's example. 5. In your readiness to take up and patiently to bear Christs cross. 6. In your desires after Christs presence here, a longing for Christ's second appearance at the last day.

1. Show your love to Christ in your learning, keeping, asserting and maintaining Christ's Truths. 1. Learn Christ's Truths, acquaint your selves by diligent reading of the Scriptures, and other books that may be a help hereunto, with all fundamental truths of the Christian Religion in the first place, and so go on and proceed further to learn those truths which are superstructory; and whatever truths you find a Foundation for in the Scriptures which are the word of Truth, receive them, not only in the light of them, but also in the love of them; if the branches of truths be in your heads, and the leaves of them in your profession, and the fruit of them in your actions, let the root of them be in your Hearts. 2. Having learned the truths of Christ as they are in Jesus, let them not hang loose in your understandings ⟨p. 153⟩but get them fastened and fixed, and close girt about the loins of your minds; hold the truths of Christ fast, prize them above all jewels, don't part with them upon any terms, let all go, estate, liberty and life it self, rather than any of this rich treasure which Christ hath entrusted you withal. 3. Assert the truths of Christ; be not ashamed or afraid to own any truths of Christ in the most adulterous & gainsaying generation, profess your belief of Christ and of the truths of Christ, endeavour that the light of these truths may shine abroad, and cast forth such bright beams in the dark world where you live, that others may be brought hereby unto the knowledge of the Truth. 4. Endeavour to maintain Christ's truths, earnestly contend for the Doctrine of Faith once delivered to the Saints, endeavour to convince gainsayers, and to defend Christ's truths against those corrupt and erroneous opinions and Doctrines, which like leaven is very apt to spread and infect the minds of men.