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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.
When wilt thou show us thy self, and give us to behold thee face to face? When wilt thou show us the Father, and give us to behold him immediately without a Glass? When wilt ⟨p. 164⟩thou show us thy Glory which thou had••• with the Father before the World was […] and give us not only to see it, but also to share in it? When wilt thou open the Treasures of thy Love, and receive us into the nearest, closest, and sweetest embracements thereof, and give us to drink of those Rivers of Pleasures which are with thee? O hasten Lord, hasten thy glorious appearance, that thou mayest be Glorified before the whole World, and we be glorified with thee, that we may be then taken to live with thee, and reign with thee, and be made perfectly happy in the full and everlasting enjoyment of thee.
When wilt thou shew us thy self, and give us to behold thee face to face? When wilt thou shew us the Father, and give us to behold him immediately without a Glass? When wilt ⟨p. 164⟩thou shew us thy Glory which thou had••• with the Father before the World was 〈…〉 and give us not onely to see it, but also to share in it? When wilt thou open the Trea•sures of thy Love, and receive us into the nearest, closest, and sweetest embracements thereof, and give us to drink of those Rivers of Pleasures which are with thee? O hasten Lord, hasten thy glorious appearance, that thou mayest be Glorified before the whole World, and we be glorified with thee, that we may be then taken to live with thee, and reign with thee, and be made perfectly happy in the full and everlasting enjoyment of thee.
Thus I have done with these Directions, the last thing in this Use of Exhortation.